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The Ten Best Films I Saw In 2011

There were some great films released in 2011. Lars VonTrier, despite his Hitler comments at Cannes, produced another great work in Melancholia. Woody Allen served up his best film in years with Midnight In Paris. Kevin Smith tried something different and almost succeeded with his off-beat horror film Red State. Margin Call and The Ides Of March proved that decent drama is not yet dead. The much-maligned Apollo 18 breathed new life into the slowly fading mockumentary sub-genre, much like last years' The Troll Hunter...

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The Ten Best Films I Saw In 2011

There were some great films released in 2011. Lars VonTrier, despite his Hitler comments at Cannes, produced another great work in Melancholia. Woody Allen served up his best film in years with Midnight In Paris. Kevin Smith tried something different and almost succeeded with his off-beat horror film Red State. Margin Call and The Ides Of March proved that decent drama is not yet dead. The much-maligned Apollo 18 breathed new life into the slowly fading mockumentary sub-genre, much like last years' The Troll Hunter...

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• O. Winston Link photographed the last American steam trains in glorious black and white in the 1950s...view them here... #
• Marko Manev, a comic artist and illustrator from Macedonia has created some wonderful minimalist poster designs for Marvel characters... #
• Avant-garde British filmmaker Ken Russell of "Altered States" fame has passed away at age 84... #
• Tape Art? Huh...? What's that? If you don't know, a good place to start is the work of Max Zorn... #
• Just how much will the live-action remake of Akira suck? Probably a lot. Read more at i09.com (they're from the future!)... #