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1. Stemple Pass (Benning)

A Woman's Revenge (Azevedo Gomes)
The Girl from Nowhere (Brisseau)
Holy Motors (Carax)
Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari (Fedorchenko)
Goltzius and the Pelican Company (Greenaway)
Like Someone in Love (Kiarostami)
The Visitors (Kjartansson)
Spring Breakers (Korine)
Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man (Mekas)
The Act of Killing (Oppenheimer, Cynn, and anonymous)
Mountain in Shadow (Patino)
Stories We Tell (Polley)
Eega (Rajamouli)
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (Resnais)
Post Tenebras Lux (Reygadas)
Ponce de Leon (Russell and Drain)
The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Takahata)
Romancing in Thin Air (To)
Walker (Tsai)

1. Spring Breakers (Korine)

The Hunt (Vinterberg)
Lawrence Anyways (Dolan)
Rust and Bone (Audiard)
Stories We Tell (Polley)

Spring Breakers (Korine)
To the Wonder (Malick)
Moonrise Kingdom (Anderson)
The Place Beyond the Pines (Cianfrance)
Jingang Jing / The Poet and Singer (Bi)
Zero Dark Thirty (Bigelow)
The Ethereal Melancholy of Seeing Horses in the Cold (Barley)

Stemple Pass (James Benning)

Only the Young (Elizabeth Mims, Jason Tippet)
It's Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt)
Belly (Julia Pot)
Mariage Material (Joe Swanberg)
A Woman's Revenge (Rita Azevedo Gomes)
Prometheus (Ridley Scott)
Ponce de Leon (Jim Drain, Ben Russell)
Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg)
Like Someone In Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel)
Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine)
All The Light In The Sky (Joe Swanberg)
Mountain in Shadow (Lois Patiño)
Drug War (Johnnie To)
Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas)

1, You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (Resnais)

drug war (to)
frances ha (baumbach)
cosmopolis (cronenberg)
it's such a beautiful day (hertzfeldt)
gimme the loot (leon)
romancing in thin air (to)
in another country (hong sang-soo)
declaration of war (donzelli)
berberian sound studio (strickland)
killing them softly (dominik)
eega (rajamouli)
cloud atlas (tykwer/wachowski/wachowski)
barbara (petzold)
leviathan (castaing-taylor/paravel)
much ado about nothing (whedon)
goltzius and the pelican company (greenaway)
jack reacher (mcquarrie)
holy motors (carax)
something in the air (assayas)

Final list:

1. Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine)

Anna Karenina (Joe Wright)
Prometheus (Ridley Scott)
Something in the Air (Olivier Assayas)
Cloud Atlas (Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski)
Flight (Robert Zemeckis)
Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino)
Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow)
Skyfall (Sam Mendes)
Argo (Ben Affleck)
Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley)
Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
Blancanieves (Pablo Berger)
Rust and Bone (Jacques Audiard)
Seven Psychopaths (Martin McDonagh)
Caesar Must Die (Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani)
Berberian Sound Studio (Peter Strickland)
Ernest & Celestine (Benjamin Renner, Vincent Patar, Stéphane Aubier)
Killing Them Softly (Andrew Dominik)
Hannah Arendt (Margarethe von Trotta)

i found watching films for 2012 pretty unpleasant (i guess i just don't know what i like now with these modern 'sound' films) and i'm sad i didn't get to the bellocchio or the to (not so much the to, i've not seen a film of his i've liked, but this one sounded good, i'll watch it eventually) but i'm quite fond of my final list



1. you ain't seen nothin yet
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
like someone in love
postcards from the zoo
night across the street
student
viola
the tiger's mind (beatrice gibson)
everybody in our family (jude)
the unspeakable act
holmes & watson: madrid days
a royal affair

couldn't resist: i'm watching celestial wives of the meadow mari

sweet, spooky and STRANGE. made me think of midsommar. if midsommar was good i mean



final list

a woman's revenge!

spring breakers
romancing in thin air
neighboring sounds
stemple pass
the act of killing
something in the air
viola
celestial brides of the meadow mori
de jueves a domingo
like someone in love
gangs of wasseypur
drug war
mai morire
hiver nomade
eega
dredd
walker

finishing baumbach's frances ha today! (don't ask me why i watched it!)

final list of me:


ai to makoto (takashi miike)

Arraianos - Eloy Enciso
Blancanieves - P. Berger
Cosmopolis - Cronenberg
Eega - Rajamouli
Goltzius And The Pelican Company -
Halley - Sebastian Hofmann
Here Comes The Devil - Adrian Garcia Bogliano
In The Fog - Loznitsa
Kuf/Mold - Ali Aybin
Like Someone In Love - Kiarostami
Outtakes From The Life Of A Happy Man - Mekas
Post tenebras lux - Reygadas
Romancing In Thin Air - To
Something in the Air (Olivier Assayas)
Spring Breakers - Korine
Stemple Pass
Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
Wadjda -
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - Resnais

The window of opportunity will be closed in about an hour.

reminds me of a joke:

how come italian movies always leave the viewer happy?



because at the end everything's fine

I wonder what the joke is for Swedish movies then...

..............that's what i come here for....................................................

Aw, the Swedish movies are just emotionally generous is all.

Anyhow, the number of the beast shall be the number of all the ballots and the number shall also be known as the list of the beast.

1
Spring Breakers - Korine

2
Like Someone In Love - Kiarostami

3
Moonrise Kingdom (Anderson)
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - Resnais

5
Drug War - To
Eega - Rajamouli

7
Romancing In Thin Air - To

8
Stemple Pass
a woman's revenge!

10
barbara (petzold)
in another country
The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Post tenebras lux - Reygadas
Something in the Air (Olivier Assayas)

15
Amour (2012, Michael Haneke)
Cosmopolis - Cronenberg
Goltzius And The Pelican Company -
Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow)

20
Blancanieves - P. Berger
Ernest & Celestine (Benjamin Renner, Vincent Patar, Stéphane Aubier)
the girl from nowhere
The Hunt (Vinterberg)
Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley)

25
the act of killing
ai to makoto (takashi miike)
Frances Ha - Baumbach
in the house (ozon)
No (Larrain)
Flight (Robert Zemeckis)
gebo and the shadow
it's such a beautiful day (hertzfeldt)
Killing Them Softly (Andrew Dominik)
Rust and Bone (Jacques Audiard)
To the Wonder (Malick)

36 - 57
Anna Karenina (Joe Wright)
Argo (Ben Affleck)
Beyond the Hills (Cristian Mungiu)
Byzantium (Jordan)
celestial brides of the meadow mori
Cloud Atlas (Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski)
Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino)
dredd
Gangs Of Wasseypur -
In The Fog - Loznitsa
jack reacher (mcquarrie)
Lawrence Anyways (Dolan)
leviathan (castaing-taylor/paravel)
Lincoln (Spielberg)
lines of wellington
magic mike
Outtakes From The Life Of A Happy Man - Mekas
Prometheus (Ridley Scott)
a royal affair
Viola - Matias Piniero
walker