Year-End Lists

Dennis Harvey: Favorite Films of 2011, as published by San Francisco Bay Guardian, alphabetically

[see also 2012]

Documentaries

• American Teacher
  Vanessa Roth & Brian McGinn
• The Arbor
  Clio Barnard
• Buck
  Cindy Meehl
• The Last Lions
  Dereck Joubert
• My Perestroika
  Robin Hessman
• Nostalgia for the Light
  Patricio Guzmán
• Pianomania
  Robert Cibis & Lilian Franck
• Pina
  Wim Wenders
• Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure
  Matthew Bate
• Vigilante Vigilante: The Battle for Expression
  Max Good
• We Were Here
  David Weissman & Bill Weber

Narrative Features

• The Artist
  Michel Hazanavicius
• Ceremony
  Max Winkler
• Certified Copy
  Abbas Kiarostami
• The Descendants
  Alexander Payne
• Drive
  Nicolas Winding Refn
• Happy, Happy
  Anne Sewitsky
• Hugo
  Martin Scorsese
• I’m Glad My Mother Is Alive
  Claude Miller & Nathan Miller
• Incendies
  Denis Villeneuve
• Machotaildrop
  Corey Adams & Alex Craig
• The Mill and the Cross
  Lech Majewski
• The Names of Love
  Michel Leclerc
• Oka!
  Lavinia Currier
• Rango
  Gore Verbinski
• A Separation
  Asghar Farhadi
• The Strange Case of Angelica
  Manoel de Oliveira
• Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
  Eli Craig
• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• Weekend
  Andrew Haigh
• Young Adult
  Jason Reitman