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. Bestiaire (Denis Côté)
2. Thursday till Sunday (Dominga Sotomayor Castillo)
3. Pursuit of Loneliness (Laurence Thrush)
4. Clip (Maja Miloš)
5. The Legend Of Kaspar Hauser (Davide Manuli)
6. An Oversimplification of Her Beauty (Terence Nance)
7. L (Babis Makridis)
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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 Turin Horse (2011, Béla Tarr)
4. Miss Bala (2011, Gerardo Naranjo)
5. Michael (2011, Markus Schleinzer)
6. Norwegian Wood (2010, Tran Anh Hung)
7. Kill List (2011, Ben Wheatley)
8. The Innkeepers (2011, Ti West)
9. The Fairy (2011, Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon & Bruno Romy)
10. Cirkus Columbia (2010, Danis Tanovic)

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

1. Daïnah la métisse (1932, Jean Grémillon)
2. Solaris (1972, Andrei Tarkovsky)
3. Johnny Guitar (1954, Nicholas Ray)
4. Zero for Conduct (1933, Jean Vigo)
5. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra)
6. Print Generation (1974, J.J. Murphy)
7. Bride of the Earth (1968, Yilmaz Güney)
8. Hope (1970, Yilmaz Güney & Serif Gören)
9. Dancing in the Dark (1986, Leon Marr)
10. Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (1966, Václav Vorlícek)

Other 2012 films I’ve seen