The St. Eliot & Co. Top 10 of 2011
by Adam Hirsch
Yeah, we know. We’re late with the list again. But 2011 had a remarkable run in cinema, and this year’s list truly runs through nearly the entire spectrum.
Something to keep in mind: none of the individual lists are the same. Films listed as number one by some people weren’t even seen by others. But, indeed, this is part of the film going experience and part of why the list is formulated as it has been. This is a snapshot, a look inside what different people are interested in, and what they thought of what they have viewed.
Below you’ll find the official Company list, followed by all the individual lists, and the scoring and explanation of how the list was created.
1. Beginners
2. Melancholia
3. Tree of Life
4. Midnight in Paris
5. Hugo
6. Meek’s Cutoff
7. Weekend
8. Moneyball
9. Bill Cunningham New York
10. Drive
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Giampaolo
Mysteries of Lisbon
Sleepless Nights Stories
The Turin Horse
Melancholia
The Future
Meek’s Cutoff
Contagion
Hugo
Le Havre
Bridesmaids
Jake
Tree of Life
Melancholia
Moneyball
Poetry
Le Quattro Volte
Hugo
Weekend
The Descendants
The Arbor
Take Shelter
M. Pitkoff
Hugo
Midnight in Paris
Too Big to Fail
The Trip
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
The Love We Make
Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
The Black Power Mixtape (1967-1975)
Moneyball
Zookeeper
Liz
Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
Sleeping Beauty
Tree of Life
Beginners
Weekend
Heartbeats
Page One
Bill Cunningham New York
Bridesmaids
Conan O’Brien: Don’t Stop
Brian
Le Quattro Volte
Beginners
Tree of Life
Shame
Midnight in Paris
The Trip
I Saw the Devil
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
Moneyball
M. Paley
Beginners
Melancholia
Drive
Meek’s Cutoff
Into the Abyss
Tree of Life
Poetry
Weekend
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
The Artist
Adam
Beginners
Drive
Tree of Life
Melancholia
Shame
Midnight in Paris
Bill Cunningham New York
The Artist
Meek’s Cutoff
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Peter
The Ides of March
Win/Win
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Midnight in Paris
Crazy, Stupid, Love
Bill Cunningham New York
Melancholia
Super 8
Bad Teacher
X-Men: First Class
The list was created through a compilation of frequency and then weighted through adding their rankings and dividing the sum by the frequency. The films in four lists or more have their averages equally weighted with one another.
Beginners – 4 ( 1, 1, 2, 4 ) // 2
Melancholia – 4 ( 2, 2, 4, 4 ) // 3
Tree of Life – 5 ( 1, 3, 3, 3, 6 ) // 3.2
Midnight in Paris – 4 ( 2, 4, 5, 6) // 4.25
Hugo – 3 ( 1, 6, 8 ) // 5
Meek’s Cutoff – 3 ( 4, 6, 9 ) // 6.3
Weekend – 3 ( 5, 7, 8 ) // 6.6
Bill Cunningham New York – 3 ( 6, 7, 8 ) // 7
Moneyball – 3 ( 3, 9, 10 ) // 7.3
Drive – 2 ( 2, 3 ) // 2.5
Le Quattro Volte – 2 ( 1, 5 ) // 3
Beats Rhymes & Life : The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest – 2 ( 1, 7 ) // 4
Shame – 2 ( 4, 5 ) // 4.5
The Trip – 2 ( 4, 6 ) // 5
Poetry – 2 ( 4, 7 ) // 5.5
The Artist – 2 ( 8, 10 ) // 9
Bridesmaids – 2 ( 9, 10 ) // 9.5