2011 albums

Here are my 9 favourite albums released this year:

The Dø – Both Ways Open Jaws
(Please) Don’t Blame Mexico – Concorde
PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
Veronica Falls
Black Lips – Arabia Mountain
Austra – Feel It Break
Baxter Dury – Happy Soup
Chad VanGaalen – Diaper Island
White Denim – D

2011 movies

Here are my 37 favourite films this year (in an autobiographical order):

Michel Gondry – The green hornet
Lilian Franck + Robert Cibis – Pianomania
Hiromasa Yonebayashi – The secret world of Arrietty
Tom Hooper – The King’s speech
Denis Villeneuve – Incendies
Darren Aronofsky – Black swan
Rafi Pitts – The Hunter
Philippe Le Guay – Les femmes du 6e étage
Raphaël Jacoulot – Avant l’aube
Frederick Wiseman – Boxing Gym
Hiner Saleem – Si tu meurs, je te tue
Shlomi Eldar – Precious Life
Gore Verbinski – Rango
Gastón Duprat + Mariano Cohn – El hombre de al lado
Martin Provost – Où va la nuit
Xavier Durringer – La conquête
Gianni di Gregorio – Gianni e le donne
Asghar Farhadi – A separation
Alain Cavalier – Pater
Kelly Reichardt – Meek’s cutoff
Kim Jee-Woon – I saw the devil
Dominik Moll – Le Moine
Na Hong-jin – The Yellow Sea
Pedro Almodóvar – La piel que habito
Lars Von Trier – Melancholia
Nicolas Winding Refn – Drive
Paolo Sorrentino – This must be the place
Nanni Moretti – Habemus papam
Dominique Abel + Fiona Gordon + Bruno Romy – La fée
Lynne Ramsay – We need to talk about Kevin
Jafar Panahi – This is not a film
Maïwenn – Polisse
Nuri Bilge Ceylan – Once upon a time in Anatolia
Robert Guédiguian – Les neiges du Kilimandjaro
Djinn Carrénard – Donoma
Christian Rouaud – Tous au Larzac
Aki Kaurismäki – Le Havre

2011 art shows

Here are some art shows I particularly enjoyed this year (mostly in Paris):

Sciences et curiosités à la cour de Versailles – Château de Versailles
L’Orient des femmes – Musée du Quai Branly
Henry Moore – Musée Rodin
Stanley Kubrick – Cinémathèque française
Dogon – Musée du Quai Branly
Odilon Redon – Grand Palais
Manet, inventeur du moderne – Musée d’Orsay
Enluminures en terre d’islam entre abstraction et figuration – BnF Richelieu
Estivales africaines – BnF Mitterrand
Edvard Munch, l’oeil moderne – Centre Pompidou
Au royaume d’Alexandre le Grand, la Macédoine antique – Musée du Louvre
Roma + Klein – Maison européenne de la photographie
Paul Klee Polyphonies – Cité de la Musique
Diane Arbus – Jeu de Paume
Expressionismus & Expressionismi – Pinacothèque
Yayoi Kusama – Centre Pompidou
Danser sa vie – Centre Pompidou