You listen to The Gentlemen’s Guide to Midnite Cinema right? Of course you do. Anyone who doesn’t is a monster; a soulless damaged husk of a human being, a gibbering shadow, less than a man, a mere beast. Well, the gentlement have just put out their highly anticipated episode listing their favourite films of 2011. Go and listen to it now, then come back here.
OK, now you’ve heard the episode, go and donate all your spare cash to their kickstarter page.
Now , mostly for my own reference, is the list of films they chose.
Big Willy’s Top 30
| # | Title | Director | Stars |
| 30 | Swordsmen (Wu Xia) | Peter Chan | Kara Hui, Wu Jiang, Takeshi Kaneshiro |
| 29 | Certified Copy (Copie conforme) | Abbas Kiarostami | Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carrière |
| 28 | Attack the Block | Joe Cornish | John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker, Alex Esmail |
| 27 | These Amazing Shadows | Paul Mariano, Kurt Norton | Jeff Adachi, James H. Billington, Robin Blaetz |
| 26 | Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (Tropa de Elite 2 – O Inimigo Agora É Outro) |
José Padilha | Wagner Moura, Irandhir Santos, André Ramiro |
| 25 | Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest | Michael Rapaport | Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, Ali Shaheed Muhammad |
| 24 | Take Shelter | Jeff Nichols | Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham |
| 23 | The Yellow Sea (Hwanghae) | Hong-jin Na | Jung-woo Ha, Yun-seok Kim, Seong-Ha Cho |
| 22 | Meek’s Cutoff | Kelly Reichardt | Michelle Williams, Bruce Greenwood, Paul Dano |
| 21 | Tyrannosaur | Paddy Considine | Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman, Eddie Marsan |
| 20 | You’re Next | Adam Wingard | Sharni Vinson, Ti West, Barbara Crampton |
| 19 | Memphis Heat: The True Story of Memphis Wrasslin’ | Chad Schaffler | Jim Blake, Jerry Calhoun, Guy Coffey |
| 18 | Le quattro volte | Michelangelo Frammartino | Giuseppe Fuda, Bruno Timpano, Nazareno Timpano |
| 17 | Bullhead (Rundskop) | Michael R. Roskam | Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeroen Perceval, Jeanne Dandoy |
| 16 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | Tomas Alfredson | Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy |
| 15 | Black Bread | Agustí Villaronga | Francesc Colomer, Marina Comas, Nora Navas |
| 14 | Hugo | Martin Scorsese | Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Lee |
| 13 | Moneyball | Bennett Miller | Brad Pitt, Robin Wright, Jonah Hill |
| 12 | The Last Ronin (Saigo no chuushingura) | Shigemichi Sugita | Jun Fubuki, Masatô Ibu, Nizaemon Kataoka |
| 11 | Snowtown | Justin Kurzel | Lucas Pittaway, Daniel Henshall, Louise Harris |
| 10 | Kill List | Ben Wheatley | Neil Maskell, MyAnna Buring, Harry Simpson |
| 9 | The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 | Göran Olsson | Angela Davis, Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale |
| 8 | Nostalgia for the Light | Patricio Guzmán | Gaspar Galaz, Lautaro Núñez, Luís Henríquez |
| 7 | We Are What We Are (Somos lo que hay) | Jorge Michel Grau | Francisco Barreiro, Adrián Aguirre, Miriam Balderas |
| 6 | The Skin I Live In | Pedro Almodóvar | Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Jan Cornet |
| 5 | Drive | Nicolas Winding Refn | Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston |
| 4 | Biutiful | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Javier Bardem, Maricel Álvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib |
| 3 | Senna | Asif Kapadia | Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Frank Williams |
| 2 | Incendies | Denis Villeneuve | Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette |
| 1 | The Tree of Life | Terrence Malick | Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain |
Honourable Mentions:
Villain, A Separation, Boy With a Bike, Steak land, Submarine
The Samurai’s Top 30
| # | Title | Director | Stars |
| 30 | Beautiful Boy | Shawn Ku | Michael Sheen, Maria Bello, Kyle Gallner |
| 29 | The Last Mountain | Bill Haney | Susan Bird, Don Blankenship, Ron Burris |
| 28 | The Devil’s Double | Lee Tamahori | Dominic Cooper, Ludivine Sagnier, Raad Rawi |
| 27 | Melancholia | Lars von Trier | Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland |
| 26 | Hugo | Martin Scorsese | Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Lee |
| 25 | Martha Marcy May Marlene | Sean Durkin | Elizabeth Olsen, Sarah Paulson, John Hawkes |
| 24 | Buck | Cindy Meehl | Buck Brannaman, Robert Redford |
| 23 | 50/50 | Jonathan Levine | Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick |
| 22 | Midnight in Paris | Woody Allen | Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates |
| 21 | Hanna | Joe Wright | Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana |
| 20 | Beginners | Mike Mills | Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Mélanie Laurent |
| 19 | Catching Hell | Alex Gibney | Moises Alou, Steve Bartman, Bill Buckner |
| 18 | We Are What We Are (Somos lo que hay) | Jorge Michel Grau | Francisco Barreiro, Adrián Aguirre, Miriam Balderas |
| 17 | The Trip | Michael Winterbottom | Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Paul Popplewell |
| 16 | Win Win | Thomas McCarthy | Paul Giamatti, Amy Ryan, Jeffrey Tambor |
| 15 | The Tree of Life | Terrence Malick | Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain |
| 14 | Stake Land | Jim Mickle | Connor Paolo, Nick Damici, Kelly McGillis |
| 13 | Warrior | Gavin O’Connor | Tom Hardy, Nick Nolte, Joel Edgerton |
| 12 | Memphis Heat: The True Story of Memphis Wrasslin’ | Chad Schaffler | Jim Blake, Jerry Calhoun, Guy Coffey |
| 11 | Rango | Gore Verbinski | Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Timothy Olyphant |
| 10 | Snowtown | Justin Kurzel | Lucas Pittaway, Daniel Henshall, Louise Harris |
| 9 | Senna | Asif Kapadia | Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Frank Williams |
| 8 | Tyrannosaur | Paddy Considine | Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman, Eddie Marsan |
| 7 | Take Shelter | Jeff Nichols | Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham |
| 6 | Moneyball | Bennett Miller | Brad Pitt, Robin Wright, Jonah Hill |
| 5 | Attack the Block | Joe Cornish | John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker, Alex Esmail |
| 4 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | Tomas Alfredson | Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy |
| 3 | Drive | Nicolas Winding Refn | Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston |
| 2 | The Skin I Live In | Pedro Almodóvar | Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Jan Cornet |
| 1 | Eurocrime! The Italian Cop, Gangster Films That Ruled the ’70s | Mike Malloy | Franco Nero, John Saxon, Fred Williamson |
Honourable Mentions:
Tron Legacy, A Better Life, Super 8, Shaolin, Contagion, Kill List, George Harrison: Living in the Material World, Hobo With a Shotgun, Rubber, Trust, Kidnapped
Adiós!
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