Hours before our annual pool closes and the Oscars ceremony takes place, it’s about time to finish 2011 film review by revealing our Top 40 favourites.
Only two of the 9 Oscar nominated films have made our list, not because of the rest is any worse than other years; rather thanks to the sheer diversity of remarkable pictures released during the past 12 months; featuring among them a record 5 documentaries; 5 first features and works coming from 18 different nations.
The Rober Awards Top 40 Films of 2011 are:
 | 1-A SEPARATION (Nader Y Simin, Una Separación) Asghar Farhadi |
 | 2-SHAME Steve McQueen |
 | 3-MARGARET Kenneth Lonergan |
 | 4-TINKER TAYLOR SOLDIER SPY (El Topo) Thomas Alfredson |
 | 5-WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN (Tenemos Que Hablar De Kevin) Lynne Ramsay |
 | 6-THE ARTIST Michel Hazanavicius |
 | 7-DRIVE Nicholas Winding Refn |
 | 8-TAKE SHELTER (Atormentado) Jeff Daniels |
 | 9-SENNA Asif Kapadia |
 | 10-THE KID WITH A BIKE (El Niño De La Bicicleta) Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne |
 | 11-CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS (La Cueva De Los Sueños Olvidados) Werner Herzog |
 | 12-MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE Sean Durkin |
 | 13-LE HAVRE (El Havre) Aki Kaurismäki |
 | 14-WEEKEND Andrew Haigh |
 | 15-13 ASSASSINS (13 Asesinos) Takeshi Miike |
 | 16-MISS BALA Gerardo Naranjo |
 | 17-COLD WEATHER Aaron Katz |
 | 18-MEEK'S CUTOFF Kelly Reichardt |
 | 19-SNOWTOWN Justin Kurzel |
 | 20-MELANCHOLIA Lars Von Trier |
 | 21-LE QUATTRO VOLTE Michelangelo Framartino |
 | 22-TYRANNOSAUR (Redención) Paddy Considine |
 | 23-PINA Wim Wenders |
 | 24-OSLO 31. AUGUST Joachim Trier |
 | 25-TOMBOY Celine Sciamma |
 | 26-TABLOID Errol Morris |
 | 27-THE TREE OF LIFE (El Arbol De La Vida) Terrence Malick |
 | 28-MYSTERIES OF LISBON (Misterios De Lisboa) Raoul Ruiz |
 | 29-BAL (Honey) (Miel) Semih Kaplanoglu |
 | 30-MY JOY Sergei Loznitsa |
 | 31-DREAMS OF A LIFE Carol Morley |
 | 32-SUBMARINE Richard Ayoade |
 | 33-RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (El Origen Del Planeta De Los Simios) Rupert Wyatt |
 | 34-JANE EYRE Cary Fukunawa |
 | 35-LA PIEL QUE HABITO (The Skin I Live In) Pedro Almodovar |
 | 36-WUTHERING HEIGHTS (Cumbres Borrascosas) Andrea Arnold |
 | 37-LOVE LIKE POISON (Un Poison Violent) Katell Quillévére |
 | 38-WIN WIN (Ganamos Todos) Thomas McCarthy |
 | 39-CARNAGE (Un Dios Salvaje) Roman Polanski |
 | 40-OUTSIDE THE LAW (Fuera De La Ley) Rachid Bouchareb |