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Exclusive: Quentin Tarantino’s favorite films of 2011

Posted on 14 January 2012 in Exclusives, Featured, Frontpage news by Sebastian 275 Comments
Midnight in Paris

Last year we posted something that almost crashed our servers and caused huge ripples around the internet: Quentin Tarantino‘s list of his favorite films of 2010 (click here to read). There were some controversial choices and some omissions in the opinions of a lot of commenters, and the discussions were very active. Even earlier, during his filming of Inglourious Basterds he let us have lists of his top 20 favorite Spaghetti Westerns (click here to read) and exploitation films (click here to read), and now that the new year is upon us, we have been receiving some emails whether Q will once more come down from the mountain he is currently climbing like Moses and bestow his judgement upon last years cinematic works. He is currently out and about filming his new movie Django Unchained, with Jamie Foxx, Leo DiCaprio and a whole ensemble cast of amazing actors, to bring it to theaters before the end of the year, just in time for christmas. And you know what… here it is, Quentin Tarantino’s list of favorite movies last year, just in time for the awards season.

But hold! This time it is an official Top 11 (12 to be exact, it includes one tie), and there are some goodies attached below! This is now a full awards show ladies and gents, there are some other categories, some best director and writer awards in there as well. Santa brought a whole bag! Special Thanks to Quentin for taking some time off and compiling this list!

The Quentin Tarantino Archives is proud to present….

Quentin Tarantino’s official Top Eleven of 2011

Red State1. Midnight In Paris
2. Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes
3. Moneyball
4. The Skin I Live In
5. X-Men: First Class
6. Young Adult
7. Attack The Block
8. Red State
9. Warrior
10. The Artist / Our Idiot Brother (tie)
11. The Three Musketeers

Others he liked (no particular order)

50/50
Beginners
Hugo
The Iron Lady
Carnage
Green Hornet
Green Lantern
Captain America
The Descendants
My Week With Marilyn
Fast Five
Tree Of Life
The Hangover Part II
Mission Impossible 4
The Beaver
Contagion
The Sitter
War Horse

Nice Try Award

Drive
Hannah
Drive Angry
Real Steel

Best Director

Pedro Almodovar
Bennett Miller
Woody Allen
Jason Reitman
Michel Hazanavicius

Best Original Screenplay

Midnight In Paris
Young Adult
Red State
Attack The Block
Our Idiot Brother
Beginners

Best Adapted Screenplay

Moneyball
The Skin I live In
Carnage
Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes
Hugo
X-Men: First Class

That concludes this year’s Tarantino awards! Fire away in the comments below, does Quentin’s list match your own? Personally, I loved Midnight in Paris, I left the theater totally dazzled, what an amazing movie, I am happy he thinks the same way. Make sure you also follow us on our social media channels, and dive into the Community to exchange with other fans. We’ll be back with more Django news shortly (some also posted on Facebook and the likes). Happy New Year you Basterds!

PS: Have you checked out Furious Cinema yet? You should!

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  • Guest

     disregard that i sucks cocks!!!!!!!!

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  • Ashkansh Ashkanam

    what about separation?

  • Guest382

    I personally haven’t seen a good film in 2011. Nothing. Blanco.

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  • http://twitter.com/wesleymills1 Wesley Mills

    It’s a free country. No need to get your panties in a bunch over the films that QT likes.

  • guest

    it’s cool he likes what he likes, but calling such a well made film like drive ‘a nice try’ is a massive cunt thing to say considering he hasn’t made a good film since the 90s..

  • guest

    it’s cool he likes what he likes, but calling such a well made film like drive ‘a nice try’ is a massive cunt thing to say considering he hasn’t made a good film since the 90s..

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  • Guest

    Green Hornet ?!? NO!!!!!! Quentin your killing me, I thought you were perfect a film genius and look up to you but you have lost points for this. Green Hornet was the worst piece of shit I have seen in the past few years. I left the theater and almost asked for my money back and I always give any film the benefit of the doubt, but I couldn’t even sit through it as a fun pop corn action type flick, garbage

  • Guest

    Continuing my Rant, GI Joe might have been better than Green Hornet, and you all know how good GI Joe was, I couldn’t even watch that movie drunk it was so bad haha

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  • Anonymous

    Insidious was terrible.

  • Anonymous

    Exactly.

  • Anonymous

    Tarantino likes what he likes.  It’s called an opinion.  He has always made it very well known that he loves movies that are often seen as trash by many people (70′s exploitation, martial arts, etc…).  Why is it an issue all of a sudden?

  • Abcd

    i sucked drive’s dick 20 times and it was longer and harder than the green hornet’s stinger

  • Artschoolboyz

    no love for melancholia?

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  • Chili

    This list clearly shows why Tarantino is no film critic.

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  • Dj Andreas

    Hell,Mr.Nice

  • Bboypaul13

    can’t believe he liked tree of life…

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/allekto1323 Arginnon

    Finally a list that doesn’t put The Artist in the top spot. I dunno why, but that movie annoys me.

  • JimmyJoe

    When Tarantino lists Drive in the Nice Try Category its a compliment nothing less. Think about all the movies he did not even talk about (e.g. Tree of Life, Melancholia)

  • Guest

     FAKE LIST – MADE UP JUST LIKE LAST YEAR’s

  • Tarantino Fan

    I thought Drive was a very engaging movie, I liked that the editor wasn’t afraid to leave it on some scene/cuts for 30+seconds, I think this pissed a lot of people off and lead to some criticism of the pacing, particular people that prefer to be immersed in dialogue. It’s been dismissed by such as lacking in sophistication but i found it a really refreshing change, much like on the level that a Tarantino film brings. He mightn’t be the most partial critic but he makes awesome movies. I can understand Hanna getting the ‘nice try’ tag, it tried to be too much and in the end was just SHIT. Planet of the Apes was an unimaginative solid movie i’d forgotten about till I saw it here. X-men was a mindless popcorn movie I didn’t mind. Didn’t bother watching Green Lantern/Hornet or Real steel and I know Tarantino has the power to enjoy trash but how do you walk out from a viewing of Captain America not contemplating ‘there’s two hours of my life I’ll never get back’? Please if you have’t already don’t watch it, it might be worse than that last two M. Night Shyamalan movies combined (probably not).  

     

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    nope

  • JayZak

    “In fact, giving it the Nice Try award is probably the best thing anyone has said about these movies this year.” What a bullshit, clearly trying to have a same opinion as Quentin. Drive had bunch of honours, and a lot of great reviews, so what the heck are you talking about?

  • JayZak

    erhmm.. he did talk about Tree of Life

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  • Clarence Boddicker

    Anyone that thinks Drive in a masterpiece
    is a pretentious arse fuck
    that doesn’t know shit about shit
    I’d need 4 audio commentaries to get
    through all the things wrong with it
    & still have a few things left!
    For you clowns, I’ll keep it short
    The violence was ridiculous. I was expecting some intensely realistic, European brutality and it was just cartoony, Hollywood shit!
    Also Ryan gosling was shit on every level
    That scene in the elevator was fuckin’ ridiculous! Lame. As. Fuck.
    Goodfellas & irreversible – perfect
    Ryan looked like a little bitch playin’ a tough guy
    The stompin’, the way he grabbed the guy, after that
    “beautifully tender kiss”, was like a rehearsal! Zero fuckin’ force,
    or aggression.
    Then he’s got a look on his face like he jus’ shit his pants!
    I couldn’t work out if she fucked off cosa the head stomp
    or the smell!
    It’s fuckin’ gold : )
    Quentin is 100% right on this. If any of you dumb fucks
    about film, you’d see it for the piece of shit it is.

  • guest

    No need to bust a nut over this man. People are entitled to their views. You didn’t like it, that’s ok, I’m sure you’ve liked plenty of movies that other people have hated. No need to insult us.

    Also lame isn’t a reason for not liking something. And maybe you could be more specific with “ridiculous” that can mean good and bad. and more specific about why Gosling was shit on every level?

    And finally he had that expression because he was like a tough but noble warrior. He wasn’t a gangster. He’s partly a reference to all those early samauri movie hero’s

  • DopplerFilms

    Green Hornet’s budget illustrates the problem with Hollywood’s business mode, huge budgets despite increasing offshoring as much special effects, set designs, shooting, etc as possible:
    $120,000,000 to make, Gross BO $98,780,042
    Green Lantern as well
    $200,000,000 to make, $219,851,172 BO

    VS the 1980s:
    B-Grade :Escape from NY – cost $6 mill Gross= $26 mill
    Franchise : Back from the Future – **$19 mill, BO gross=$350 mill**
    Auteur film :Full Metal Jacket- $17 mill, BO gross $46 mill

  • guest

    nice try, tarantino.

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    It’s the best film of the year.   I’m baffled that he didn’t get it.  I
    thought for sure that QT would understand and defend that movie. 

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  • Zip

    Your review has made me conclude you are a sucky ass film reviewer.
    Drive was easily in the top 15 movies of the year.

    And everyone else saying Drive was some wannabe Tarantino movie – It took more from movies like Bullet and “La Samourua” (or however you spell it) and David Lynch films than it took from Tarantino movies which are heavy dialogue and rapid fire pacing.

    From your review I concluded that the elevator scene ruined the entire movie. It was that bad.

    By the way you can’t call Drive’s violence “unrealistic and cartoonish” and not say the same about Kill Bill and Inglorious Basterds. Those movies are the same if not more.

    You can write a review and give your opinions but you can’t write some authoritarian dissertation when you are only going off your personal taste.

    I agree with alot of his choices in his list but methinks Tarantino is wrong on this one.

  • Anonymous

    absolutely lol. Drive in nice try? ROFL

  • Chris Tait

    Make more films you lazy C%$#

  • Jrlawguy

    How about Shame, Mr. Tarantino…you might like that one.

  • http://ARMdevices.net/ Charbax

    Drive’s the best film of the year I think he meant..

  • http://ARMdevices.net/ Charbax

    Only morons don’t like Drive

  • http://ARMdevices.net/ Charbax

    You’re putting Woody Allen and Lars Von Trier in the same category?

  • http://ARMdevices.net/ Charbax

    Critics generally love Drive, except for the Oscars, it’s gotten 32 awards and 51 nominations thus far..

  • http://ARMdevices.net/ Charbax

    Christoph Waltz is in the Three Musketeers..

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