Friday, 23 December 2011

Our Films of 2011

As we near the end of an amazing year of cinema, it's time to look back over what's delighted us in 2011. We've got contributions from all kinds of industry bods, as well as the all-important Top 10 Most Popular Guildhall Films as dictated by our wonderful audience. So let's get started...





Chloe Homer, Guildhall Film Programmer
1. Love Like Poison
2. Beginners
3. Treacle Jr
4. Heartbeats
5. Another Earth
6. Submarine
7. Passenger Side
8. Source Code
9. Tower Heist
10. Oranges & Sunshine

Carol Sutton, Guildhall Box Office
1. Biutiful
2. Puss In Boots
3. 127 Hours
4. Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
5. Tintin
6. Wuthering Heights
7. The Three Musketeers
8. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2

Dan Thomas, FILMCLUB
1. Senna
2. The Ides of March
3. Miss Bala
4. Drive
5. Black Swan
6. Bridesmaids
7. Submarine
8. Sound It Out
9. Troll Hunter
10. Snowtown

Kate Garwood, culturemouse
1. Black Swan
2. Take Shelter
3. Heartbeats
4. Senna
5. Midnight In Paris
6. Arrietty
7. Tangled
8. The King's Speech
9. The Artist
10. Thor

Roxy Bar & Screen, London
1. Attack The Block
2. Monsters
3. Inside Job
4. Animal Kingdom
5. Norwegian Wood
(Top 3 most critically over-rated: The Skin I Live In, Senna, Archipelago)

Rebecca Rau, DCM
1. The King's Speech
2. Black Swan
3. Blue Valentine
4. The Inbetweeners Movie
5. The Hangover Part II

Nicholas Tobias, Cineworld
1. The Interrupters
2. Project Nim
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2
4. Moneyball
5. The Guard
6. 13 Assassins
7. Weekend
8. Knuckle
9. Win Win
10. Drive

Sam Wilson, FILMCLUB
1. 50/50
2. Animal Kingdom
3. Black Swan
4. Drive
5. The Guard
6. The Ides of March
7. The Secret In Their Eyes
8. Tyrannosaur
9. Senna
10. True Grit

Gareth Negus, Curzon Community Cinema
1. Tomboy
2. The Tree of Life
3. A Separation
4. Black Swan
5. Arrietty

Portsmouth Film Society
1. Oranges & Sunshine
2. Biutiful
3. Pina

The Guildhall Audience Top 10 - most attended films of the year
1. The King's Speech
2. Jane Eyre
3. Midnight In Paris
4. The Way
5. The Help
6. Black Swan
7. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
8. The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest
9. Potiche
10. The Tree Of Life

Well that's about it for this year! We're off to end 2011 with a bang with a ridiculously popular one-off Christmas screening of Home Alone... All that remains to say is a truly heartfelt thank you for all your support at The Cinema this year - we couldn't do any of this without you! Here's to a bigger and better 2012! Mulled wine anyone?