2012 poll

[sally]

can anyone get hold of Arraianos?

current list:
you ain't seen nothin yet
like someone in love
a woman's revenge
the girl from nowhere
saudade (jean-claude rousseau)
magic mike
gebo and the shadow
lines of wellington
goltzius and the pelican company
in another country
caesar must die
yeralti
night across the street
differently, molussia
postcards from the zoo
the great flood
reconversão
student (omirbayev)
sniegs
rent-a-cat (reeeeeeeeeeeeeentaaaaaaaa!!!!!!aaaaaaa neko)



and R, there's no point me commenting on the hunt, i will and have watched mads in any old shit. (though still not been able to face polar) in fact he pretty much only makes terrible films, but that's fine.

[nrh]

romancing in thin air (johnnie to)
fatso! (rajat kapoor)
gebo and the shadow (manoel de oliveira)
attakathi (pa. ranjith)
isn't anyone alive? (gakuryu ishii)
ai to makoto (takashi miike)
ace attorney (takashi miike)
lesson of the evil (takashi miike)
miss lovely (ashim ahluwalia)
night across the street (raul ruiz)
you ain't seen nothin' yet (alain resais)
pizza (karthik subbaraj)
viola (matias piniero)
like someone in love (abbas kiarostami)
gangs of wasseypur (anurag kashyap)
motorway (soi cheang)
eega (s.s. rajamouli)
dutta vs dutta (anjan dutt)
naduvula konjam pakkatha kaanom (balaji tharaneetharan)
in another country (hong sang soo)

lot of stuff i like (universal soldier: day of reckoning, drug war, love in the buff, mugamoodi, penance, cosmopolis, tabu etc) missing the cut.

need to see woman's revenge and the bellocchio. don't think there are subs for the jose celestino campusano or the gautham menon.

[...]

why this kolaveri di

Ah, so that's the movie the song came from. I'm familiar with the song, but not the movie. Quite an earworm that one.

[roujin]

LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE (Abbas Kiarostami)
FATSO! (Rajat Kapoor)
TO THE WONDER (Terrence Malick)
LESSON OF THE EVIL (Takashi Miike)
DRUG WAR (Johnnie To)
WOLF CHILDREN (Mamoru Hosoda)
A WOMAN'S REVENGE (Rita Azevedo Gomes)
EEGA (S.S. Rajamouli)
THE GIRL FROM NOWHERE (Jean Claude Brisseau)
FANGO (Jose Celestino Campusano)
SPRING BREAKERS (Harmony Korine)
FOR LOVE'S SAKE (Takashi Miike)
LOVE FOR BEGINNERS (Takeshi Furusawa)

[flip]

from what i've seen, one of the worst years in film history, but there are quite a few promising-sounding things i've missed. i'm not even very enthusiastic about most of the films below (after the first six or so)

Beyond the Hills (Cristian Mungiu)

Drug War (Johnnie To)
Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine)
No (Pablo Larrain)
Paradise: Love (Ulrich Seidl)
Compliance (Craig Zobel)
The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer)
The Imposter (Bart Layton)
The Campaign (Jay Roach)
Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)
Chronicle (Josh Trank)
That's My Boy (Sean Anders)
Crazy Clown Time (David Lynch)
The Girl from Nowhere (Jean-Claude Brisseau)
Pitch Perfect (Jason Moore)
Project X (Nima Nourizadeh)

[ralch]

For now:

1. Neighboring Sounds (Mendonça Filho)

Amour (Haneke)
Ashes (Weerasethakul)
Bwakaw (Lana)
Byzantium (Jordan)
Chronicle (Trank)
Flight (Zemeckis)
Halley (Hofmann)
Holy Motors (Carax)
The Last Elvis (Bo)
The Master (P. T. Anderson)
Moonrise Kingdom (W. Anderson)
The Needle (Oquendo Villar, Correa Vigier)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Chbosky)
Post tenebras lux (Reygadas)
Spring Breakers (Korine)
Stories We Tell (Polley)
Tabu (Gomes)
White Elephant (Trapero)
Wreck-It Ralph (Moore)

[Pretentious Hipster]

Spring Breakers - Harmony Korine

Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning - John Hyams
Leviathan - Véréna Paravel / Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Resident Evil: Retribution - Paul W.S. Anderson
The Master - Paul Thomas Anderson
Amour - Michael Haneke
Ernest et Célestine [Ernest & Celestine] - Stéphane Aubier / Vincent Patar / Benjamin Renner
O som ao redor [Neighboring Sounds] - Kleber Mendonça Filho
Dredd - Pete Travis
Museum Hours - Jem Cohen
The Comedy - Rick Alverson
ライク・サムワン・イン・ラブ [Like Someone in Love] - Abbas Kiarostami
Cosmopolis - David Cronenberg
Autrement, la Molussie [Differently, Molussia] - Nicolas Rey
Moonrise Kingdom - Wes Anderson

Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning is an incredible deconstruction of the cheesy 80s action film genre. If you look at those action scenes, they are actually incredibly violent and even horrifying. This film proves it by emphasizing on the gore and horror of those action scenes. I'd even go as far as to call it a horror film.

[...]

Taking a slight break from The Act of Killing, because lord knows that one is tough to watch without a breather, to start Romancing in Thin Air and It's also pretty great so far, no surprise I'm sure to most of you who've already watched it. I'm a bit bummed that I didn't see either early enough to include them in the best of the decade poll, because it seems likely they'd both make it, but that's okay, I can as least add them to this poll once I finish them, assuming they don't somehow get incredibly stupid in the remaining time left, which isn't a likely, so I'm not too worried.

[mesnalty]

Hmm, is this the month when I finally watch a Resident Evil film? Do I have to watch the first four or can I just dive right into Retribution?

[Pretentious Hipster]

Hmm, is this the month when I finally watch a Resident Evil film? Do I have to watch the first four or can I just dive right into Retribution?

I don't think you need to see them. The previous part ends at a cliffhanger that continues here, but the scene after is literally a recap of the first few parts.

I do think the film is more effective when seeing other parts though. Someone told me on another film forum that you can slowly see how absurd the films became as the series goes on, and I fully agree with him.

I think it does what action films should do. COMPLETELY disregard a plot except for like maybe 3-4 minutes of the film, and have action at an incredibly over the top level. It's absolutely ridiculous, but in a good way.

It basically feels like a video game, and even includes stylized acting reminiscent of the ridiculous voice acting some games have, including the Resident Evil series.

[...]

Personally I don't think you miss much by skipping Resident Evil :Apocalypse and Extinction, since Paul WS Anderson doesn't direct those two and you can pretty much figure the story. Some people think Russell Mulcahy is a good director too, I am not one of those people however. And if you did decide to skip right to Retribution it isn't a huge loss, since the story isn't the main consideration here, but if you are the type who'll want to really understand all the different connections, however ridiculous, then starting from the beginning does add that and give some sort of arc and scope to the project, which is sort of amusing in its own way.

[nrh]

if i remember correctly retribution, starting minutes aside, is actually one of the most self-contained entries in the series.

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Just watched Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa's fascinating and beautiful Jerry and Me, a video essay on her lifelong relationship to the films of Jerry Lewis that is as much about Iranian political history and its relationship to America, a subject that intersects with Saeed-Vafa's own life as an Iranian immigrant to America, as it is about movies. It would definitely be one of top 5 favourite films of the 2010s - naturally I watched it just after the poll closed.

I'm getting competing info on whether it's 2012 or 2013 year of release, but I'll lean to 2012 this time, since 2013 was already polled recently and I want to give it some love, somewhere, someway. Editing my ballot above.

[oscarwerner]

My 20 favorite films of 2012:
1.In the House (François Ozon)-my top hit
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and other 19 :
2.Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)
3.Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine)
4.Amour (Michael Haneke)
5. No (Pablo Larraín)
6. Barbara (Christian Petzold)
7. Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino)
8. In the Fog (Sergey Loznitsa)
9. Argo (Ben Affleck)
10. Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow)
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11. Lincoln (Steven Spielberg)
12. Magic Mike (Steven Soderbergh)
13. Dredd (Pete Travis)
14. Rust and Bone (Jacques Audiard)
15. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
16. Something in the Air (Olivier Assayas)
17. The Other Dream Team (Marius Markevicius)
18. Beyond the Hills (Cristian Mungiu)
19. Paradise: Love (Ulrich Seidl)
20. Cloud Atlas (T.Tykwer, L. Wachowski, L. Wachowski)

[Lencho of the Apes]

Does Gangs Of Wasseypur have an ugly, digital look that's going to make me unhappy, or am I looking at a bad copy? Last night I looked at the copy from the place and it felt like it had been i-phoned off a screen with a sturdy tripod. Maybe I should go with the einthusan copy instead?

[nrh]

Does Gangs Of Wasseypur have an ugly, digital look that's going to make me unhappy, or am I looking at a bad copy? Last night I looked at the copy from the place and it felt like it had been i-phoned off a screen with a sturdy tripod. Maybe I should go with the einthusan copy instead?

i remember it looking pretty good on dcp - i think rajeev ravi shot most or all of it on 35mm. unfortunately i think the version on einthusan is one of the few movies on the site stuck behind a paywall.

[mesnalty]

PSA: Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man is currently showing on Le Cinema Club.

[sally]

PSA: Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man is currently showing on Le Cinema Club.

thanks for the heads up - any idea when it's going off? i can't see on the website when it says the week starts/stops.

[sally]

also so far i'm enjoying 2012 much more than i thought i would

it's weird, it seems like i only saw some of these in the cinema 5 mins ago, yet my favourite moment of 2012 seems like a hundred years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqM0Ube0oLs

anyway, i just watched a spanish film about sherlock holmes investigating jack the ripper in madrid. yep. cinematographer and lighting guys were delish. anyone want it let me know

[blueboy]

my list (not final)

01. a woman's revenge (rita azevedo gomes, 2012)
02. inori (pedro gonzalez-rubio, 2012)
03. age is... (stephen dwoskin, 2012)
04. dream and silence (jaime rosales, 2012)
05. leviathan (lucien castaing-taylor & verena paravel, 2012)
06. three sisters (bing wang, 2012)
07. arraianos (eloy enciso, 2012)
08. post tenebras lux (carlos reygadas, 2012)
09. watchtower (pelin esmer, 2012)
10. white epilepsy (philippe grandrieux, 2012)
11. la madre (jean marie-straub, 2012)
12. night across the street (raoul ruiz, 2012)
13. view from acropolis (siebren de haan & lonnie van brummelen, 2012)
14. you ain't seen nothin' yet (alain resnais, 2012)
15. out-takes from the life of a happy man (jonas mekas, 2012)
16. the last time i saw macao (joao pedro rodrigues & joao rui guerra da mata, 2012)
17. la lapidation de saint etienne (pere vila i barcelo, 2012)
18. bestiaire (denis cote, 2012)
19. the wild ones (alejandro fadel, 2012)
20. boy eating the bird's food (ektoras lygizos, 2012)

[mesnalty]

PSA: Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man is currently showing on Le Cinema Club.

thanks for the heads up - any idea when it's going off? i can't see on the website when it says the week starts/stops.

I'm not 100% sure but I think they change films every Friday.

[sally]

thanks. well i guess that's my tomorrow viewing then

[nrh]

PSA: Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man is currently showing on Le Cinema Club.

thanks for the heads up - any idea when it's going off? i can't see on the website when it says the week starts/stops.

I'm not 100% sure but I think they change films every Friday.

they change every friday except for specific films; this one played for two weeks but started december 27th and should finish on friday this week.

[Silga]

Watched the doc Chasing Ice (Jeff Orlowski) about National Geographic photographer James Balog and his attempt to photograph glaciers and monitor the effects of climate change.

While it may not be a groundbreaking doc on the subject, it still features absolutely gorgeous views of Iceland, Greenland and Alaska. Watching the film, I couldn't let go of thoughts on how do the same places look now, about a decade later.

The original song Before My Time was nominated for Academy Award and, curiously enough, was performed by Scarlett Johansson.

7/10

My preliminary list is already too crowded for Chasing Ice, but I can still recommend it.

[---]

1. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, 2012)

Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012)
Ernest & Celestine (Benjamin Renner/Vincent Patar/Stéphane Aubier, 2012)
The Hunt (Thomas Vinterberg, 2012)
Mekong Hotel (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2012)
Bestiaire (Denis Côté, 2012)
Jack Reacher (Christopher McQuarrie, 2012)
Tabu (Miguel Gomes, 2012)
Laurence Anyways (Xavier Dolan, 2012)
Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2012)
The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)
"Chef de meute" (Chloé Robichaud, 2012)
"Paperman" (John Kahrs, 2012)
"Magnetic Reconnection" (Kyle Armstrong, 2012)

[sally]

so which of you guys on here is running le cinema club? this week there's a 2012 film and next week it says it's showing hermia & helena, #87 on our 2010's poll.

very suspicious

[rischka]

mai morire -- a beautiful minimalist film about rituals, death and destiny





looks to me a lot like the area where maria candelaria was filmed





and imdb confirms it - xochimilco

[rischka]

can anyone get hold of Arraianos?

YES - check the place mañana

[sally]

i'm not going to quibble about györgy pálfi 's final cut (although far too much woody allen & wings of desire) cuz i love film mash-ups. but the 'what is that film clip from?' drives me mad.

anyone tell me what film this is?

[greennui]

I couldn't finish Final Cut. Nice enough idea for a 10 min youtube short but not a full length movie.

anyone tell me what film this is?

Metropolis, according to a tumblr post.