[re-upload from the now defunct wanderingimage tumblr January 2012]
my personal favorite moments from films to receive a 2011 U.S. release. Not all of which made my actual “Best Films of 2011” list, but at least had incredible segments that stayed with me since first viewing. Scenes that I’m sure I’ll want to re-visit again and again.
+ = was actually featured on Toby's 2011 "Best of"
- WARRIOR (O'Connor)
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- TAKE SHELTER (J.Nichols)
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Final 40min stretch of action. **wing-suit dive, Shockwave building collapse, etc.**
- TRANSFORMERS:
DARK OF THE MOON [IMAX 3D] (Bay)
Final 40min stretch of action.
Brutal last stand of the 13! 🤘
- 13 ASSASSINS (Miike)
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Redwood forest climbing montage
- RISE OF THE
PLANET OF THE APES (Wyatt)
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- WAR HORSE (Spielberg)
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Elevator kiss + the sudden murder that follows
- DRIVE (Nicolas Winding Refn)
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Title character’s heat-stroke dream/vision
- RANGO [3D] (Verbinski)
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The kids filming a train station scene & the explosive derailment that follows. Like a super slick update of the iconic GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH crash
- SUPER 8 (J.J. Abrams)
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- ATTACK THE BLOCK
(Cornish)
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Vertigo-inducing Burj Khalifa Tower sequence
- MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE
GHOST PROTOCOL [IMAX] (Bird)
The Mechanical man draws Georges Méliès' LE VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE (1902)
- HUGO [3D] (Scorsese)
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Entire picturesque prologue. Richard Wagner's "Prelude: Tristan & Isolde"
- MELANCHOLIA (von Trier)
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Those mysterious red-eyed ghost primates
- UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN
RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (Weerasethakul)
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The motorcycle chase throughout a flooding village after the dam busts open. **performance-capture animated to look like very long free-floating takes. Spielberg set free of the limits of traditional camera rigging**
- THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN
[IMAX 3D] (Spielberg)
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- THE TREE OF LIFE (Malick)
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also this;
I wish more superhero movies featured playful 3D stuff like this.
Reminded me of the cracked-out editing of HULK (2003) or SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD (2010)
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