Quentin Tarantino has revealed his favourite (and least favourite) films of 2011.
The Quentin Tarantino Archives have got their hands on the director's rundown of the year, which yields some surprising results.
His #1 movie was Woody Allen's Midnight In Paris . It's an unexpected choice, but not underserving: it was smart, sweet and pretty damn funny, with some spot-on portrayals of '20s icons by the supporting cast.
Elsewhere, his list mixes the mainstream with the offbeat ( The Artist and Our Idiot Brother tie in 10th place!), and there are some shocks ( The Three Musketeers ? Surely an ironic joke...) and he was also kind enough to supply lists of other films he enjoyed, his favourite screenplays, and his worst films of the year.
Check out the lists in full below:
Quentin Tarantino’s official Top 11 of 2011
1. 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 considered in 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 The Tree Of Life The Hangover Part II Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol The Beaver Contagion The Sitter War Horse
Nice Try Award
Drive Hanna 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
Matt Maytum is the former Editor of Total Film magazine. Over the past decade, Matt has worked in various roles for TF online and in print, including at GamesRadar+. Bucket-list-ticking career highlights have included reporting from the set of Tenet and Avengers: Infinity War, as well as covering Comic-Con, TIFF and the Sundance Film Festival.
