This is seriously the best year-end film list that has ever been made, and I’m so excited about it. It’s sort of a tally of 18 writers’ votes, but I feel like this year I helped shape the list in major ways beyond just watching shit and voting.
Over a year of scouring festivals, wading through DVD screeners for hidden gems, ruining my back and ass in The Cinefamily’s seats. Bugging all the other writers to watch all my top picks after I uploaded them to a streaming site. Telling people over and over again that Drive wasn’t actually all that great. Writing reviews for 7 out of these 25.
Anyway, enough about me. These films are amazing (Drive excepted), and representative of the ridiculous range of innovative, infinitely-watchable stuff that is being made that sadly, most of us never get to see. One of the films was shot in my hometown, and stars a girl I saw at parties and coffee shops back in high school. One of the films, William Never Married, was never even released at all (but you can stream it here: http://indieflix.com/film/william-never-married-33085/).
OK, I’m going to go piss myself in excitement.
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/2011-favorite-25-films-2011
