Top 10 of 2012

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This is a dynamic list, so it’ll be updated each time I see a film which had its world premiere in 2012 that is better than at least one of the films already on the list.

1. Tchoupitoulas (Bill Ross IV & Turner Ross)
2. The Imposter (Bart Layton)
3. Neighboring Sounds (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
4. Only The Young (Elizabeth Mims & Jason Tippet)
5. Bestiaire (Denis Côté)
6. Atomic Age (Héléna Klotz)
7. The Queen of Versailles (Lauren Greenfield)
8. Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (Lav Diaz)
9. Thursday till Sunday (Dominga Sotomayor Castillo)
10. Detropia (Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady)

Polls Top 10 (will update as new titles appear here)

1. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011, Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
2. Crazy Horse (2011, Frederick Wiseman)
3. The Deep Blue Sea (2011, Terence Davies)
4. You Are Here (2010, Daniel Cockburn)
5. The Day He Arrives (2011, Hong Sang-soo)
6. Elena (2011, Andrei Zvyagintsev)
7. The Turin Horse (2011, Béla Tarr)
8. Attenberg (2010, Athina Rachel Tsangari)
9. Goodbye First Love (2011, Mia Hansen-Løve)
10. This Is Not a Film (2011, Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)

My Top 10 Discoveries During 2012 (only first-time viewings of films made before 2000 are eligible)

1. Woman in the Dunes (1964, Hiroshi Teshigahara)
2. Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971, Robert Bresson)
3. Daïnah la métisse (1932, Jean Grémillon)
4. The Last Picture Show (1971, Peter Bogdanovich)
5. Solaris (1972, Andrei Tarkovsky)
6. Johnny Guitar (1954, Nicholas Ray)
7. Zero for Conduct (1933, Jean Vigo)
8. Ruggles of Red Gap (1935, Leo McCarey)
9. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra)
10. Death in Venice (1971, Luchino Visconti)

Other 2012 films I’ve seen

• Soldier/Citizen (Silvina Landesman) – 5.5
• Pursuit of Loneliness (Laurence Thrush) – 5.1
• Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present (Matthew Akers) – 5.1
• Clip (Maja Miloš) – 5.0
• Jeff (Chris James Thompson) – 4.9
• Marley (Kevin McDonald) – 4.9
• Chronicle (Josh Trank) – 4.8
• Shut Up and Play the Hits (Will Lovelace & Dylan Southern) – 4.8
• No, I am Not a Toad, I am a Turtle! (Elke Marhöfer) – 4.7
• The Legend Of Kaspar Hauser (Davide Manuli) – 4.7
• The Grey (Joe Carnahan) – 4.5
• Beyond the Hill (Emin Alper) – 4.2
• Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (Alison Klayman) – 3.7
• Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie (Tim Heidecker & Eric Wareheim) – 3.6
• Ethel (Rory Kennedy) – 3.5
• Wildness (Wu Tsang) – 3.4
• An Oversimplification of Her Beauty (Terence Nance) – 3.0
• L (Babis Makridis) – 2.5