"A collage of clips created as an art installation by Christian Marclay from literally thousands of films, foreign and domestic, silent and sound, with some TV shows thrown into the mix, “The Clock” is structured minute by minute around a 24-hour time cycle. This may sound like a trivialization of the cinematic experience, but the reality is intoxicating."
Let's hope it shows up on Netflix of DVD someday or we get to catch it if rescreened by LACMA.
The rest of Turan's 10-best list:
“The Artist”
“City of Life and Death”
“Like Crazy”
“Midnight in Paris”
“Of Gods and Men”
“Poetry”
“A Separation”
“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”
“Win Win”
Memorable documentaries from the Sundance festival:
“Buck”
“If a Tree Falls”
“The Interrupters”
“Project Nim”
“The Redemption of General Butt Naked”
“Senna”
“We Were Here”
Non-Sundance docs:
“Circo”
“Nostalgia for the Light”
Foreign Films: The huge number of excellent foreign-language films that played in Los Angeles with hardly anyone seeing them, including:
“Double Hour”
“Carancho”
“Conquest”
“Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life”
“The Human Resources Manager”
“Le Havre”
“Kawasaki’s Rose”
“Point Blank”
“The Princess of Montpensier”
“Queen to Play”
“The Women on the Sixth Floor”
For commentary on his individual picks and more, see Kenneth Turan's best films of 2011 at the L.A. Times.
Related: Betsy Sharkey's best 10 films of 2011
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