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  1. #261
    Do I look like I drink water? Salladeel's Avatar
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    I'm not going to even bother finding my old post in this thread; especially considering I'm only now playing catch-up after like 3 months completely out of the 2012 movie loop.

    As of 12/25/12:

    01. Holy Motors (A-)
    02. Cloud Atlas (A-)
    03. Oslo, August 31st (A-)
    04. Elena (B+)
    05. Amour (B+)
    06. Take This Waltz (B+)
    07. Middle of Nowhere (B+)
    08. Magic Mike (B+)
    09. Rust and Bone (B+)
    10. Bachelorette (B+)

    11. Silver Linings Playbook (B+)
    12. Beasts of the Southern Wild (B+)
    13. Vamps (B)
    14. Damsels in Distress (B)
    15. The Deep Blue Sea (B)
    16. Django Unchained (B)
    17. The Snowtown Murders (B)
    18. Looper (B)
    19. Zero Dark Thirty (B/B-)
    20. 2 Days in New York (B/B-)

    21. Cosmopolis (B-)
    22. Prometheus (B-/C+)
    23. Pitch Perfect (C+)
    24. Les Miserables (C+)
    25. To Rome with Love (C)
    26. Moonrise Kingdom (C)
    27. Jeff, Who Lives at Home (D+)
    28. The Amazing Spider-Man (D+)

    To see: everything. (What I'm most excited about: Tabu, THE PAPERBOY, The Loneliest Planet, In Another Country, Anna Karenina, The Master, Francine...)
    Last edited by Salladeel; 01-12-2013 at 04:03 PM.

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  3. #263
    Senior Member danielvin's Avatar
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    Updated with the wonderful Tabu.


    1. Cloud Atlas
    2. Pieta
    3. Holy Motors
    4.Tabu
    5. Amour
    6. To the wonder
    7. Spring Breakers
    8. The Master
    9. La cinquième saison
    10. Apres-mai

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    I'm looking for more. siowafc's Avatar
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    New films in bold.

    Top 5 Films of 2012:
    01. Cosmopolis (Cronenberg, 2012)
    02. Silver Linings Playbook (Russell, 2012)
    03. Cloud Atlas (Twyker, Wachowski, & Wachowski, 2012)
    04. Magic Mike (Soderbergh, 2012)
    05. Haywire (Soderbergh, 2012)

    ****
    Cosmopolis

    ***½
    Cloud Atlas
    Haywire
    Magic Mike
    Silver Linings Playbook

    ***
    21 Jump Street
    The Avengers
    Chronicle
    The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
    The Master
    Moonrise Kingdom
    Premium Rush
    Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

    **½
    Anna Karenina
    Argo
    Battleship
    The Bourne Legacy
    The Dictator
    The Hunger Games
    Jack Reacher
    John Carter
    Lockout
    Looper
    Prometheus
    Skyfall

    **
    The Amazing Spider-Man
    The Cabin in the Woods
    The Dark Knight Rises
    Sinister
    Total Recall


    The Grey
    Man on a Ledge
    Rock of Ages
    Wrath of the Titans

    *
    This Means War

    ½
    Dark Shadows
    Snow White and the Huntsman

    NO STARS
    The Raid: Redemption
    WE'RE GONNA FIGHT!

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    #THECALL.



  6. #266
    Senior Member BBKing44's Avatar
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    Updated with The Grey and Django Unchained
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    The Island President - ****
    The Friends of Eddie Coyle - ****
    The Proposition - ****1/2
    Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - ****1/2

  7. #267
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    Updated with Jack Reacher, Flight, Hitchcock, Les Miserables and The Devil Inside. Also made a couple of shifts around in my top ten.


    Top Ten Films of 2012

  8. #268
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    1. Amour (Michael Haneke) A+
    2. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson) A
    3. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson) A-
    4. Looper (Rian Johnson) A-
    5. Lincoln (Steven Spielberg) A-
    6. Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino) A-
    7. Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell) A-
    8. Skyfall (Sam Mendes) A-
    9. Anna Karenina (Joe Wright) A-
    10. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Peter Jackson) B+
    11. Les Miserables (Tom Hooper) B+
    A pessimist is a well-informed optimist-Napoleon

  9. #269
    Aspiring Film Magazine Reader Blue Velvet Bayou's Avatar
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    1. Holy Motors (Leos Carax, France)
    2. This is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi/Mojtaba Mirtahasebi, Iran)
    3. Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, United States)
    4. Tabu (Miguel Gomes, Portugal)
    5. Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg, Canada)
    6. Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor/Verena Paravel, United Kingdom)
    7. The Deep Blue Sea (Terrence Davies, United Kingdom)
    8. The Color Wheel (Alex Ross Perry, United States)
    9. You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet! (Alain Resnais, France)
    10. The Grey (Joe Carnahan, United States)
    Last edited by Blue Velvet Bayou; 12-26-2012 at 02:25 PM.

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    1. Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (dir. Lav Diaz)
    2. differently, Molussia (dir. Nicolas Rey)
    3. Tabu (dir. Miguel Gomes)
    4. Three Sisters (dir. Wang Bing)
    5. Sudoeste (dir. Eduardo Nunes)
    6. Amour (dir. Michael Haneke)
    7. Leviathan (dir. Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
    8. Student (dir. Darezhan Omirbayev)
    9. Cosmopolis (dir. David Cronenberg)
    10. The Wall (dir. Julian Pölsler)

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    Senior Member BBKing44's Avatar
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    Updated with How to Survive a Plague.
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    The Island President - ****
    The Friends of Eddie Coyle - ****
    The Proposition - ****1/2
    Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - ****1/2

  12. #272
    Delicate Flower
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    1. Django Unchained
    2. Moonrise Kingdom
    3. Take This Waltz
    4. The Dark Knight Rises
    5. Looper
    6. Bernie
    7. The Deep Blue Sea
    8. Killer Joe
    9. Skyfall
    10. The Kid With a Bike

    I think.

  13. #273
    1. Silver Linings Playbook
    2. Flight
    3. Life of Pi
    4. Django Unchained
    5. Lincoln
    6. The Hunger Games
    7. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    8. The Dark Knight Rises
    9. Argo
    10. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey


    I still need to see The Master, Moonrise Kingdom, Zero Dark Thirty and The Impossible. All four could knock a film off this list.
    Last edited by ActingDude17; 12-28-2012 at 02:27 PM.

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    By NYC release dates

    Updated: 1/4/13
    Just found out Starbuck is finally getting a US release this March via E One Entertainment. Good news. Hope it performs well. For now, I'm going to take it off my 2012 list.

    1. Once Upon A Time in Anatolia
    2. The Kid With a Bike
    3. This Is Not a Film
    4. Tabu
    5. The Day He Arrives
    6. The Loneliest Planet
    7. Bernie
    8. Unforgivable
    9. Lincoln
    10. Holy Motors

    Honorable Mentions: Zero Dark Thirty; The Master; The Turin Horse; Jiro Dreams of Sushi; Moonrise Kingdom; Life of Pi; Chronicle; Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present; Oslo, August 31st; Flight

    Special Mention: The Clock

    Films To See (in no order): Keep the Lights On; Attenberg; The Comedy; Girl Walk // All Day; Neighboring Sounds; Alps; Goodbye First Love; Kill List; Las Acacias; Elena; Queen of Versailles; Oki's Movie; Ha Ha Ha; In Another Country; Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry; A Royal Affair; Cosmopolis; Monsieur Lazhar; Chronicle; Red Hook Summer; Killer Joe; Compliance; The Imposter; The Raid: Redemption; Looper; Alamayer's Folly; Frankenweenie; The Avengers; Cafe le Flore; The Central Park Five; Middle of Nowhere; Room 237; Barbara; Amour; Cloud Atlas; Searching for Sugar Man; Les Miserables; Rust and Bone; The Perks of Being a Wallflower; Anna Karenina; Django Unchained; Promised Land; This is 40
    Last edited by nike290; 01-03-2013 at 06:22 PM.

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    Senior Member Dooby's Avatar
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    Updated with Compliance, Seeking a Friend For the End of the World, Hope Springs, Monsieur Lazhar, The Sessions.

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    My religion is hedonism Aurelius's Avatar
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    Updated with Pieta, Anna Karenina, Cloud Atlas, Skyfall, Lincoln, Kon-Tiki, and The Hobbit.



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    Senior Member Timmer's Avatar
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    Going by North American release dates:

    1. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
    2. Cosmopolis
    3. This is Not a Film
    4. Moonrise Kingdom
    5. It's Such a Beautiful Day
    6. The Turin Horse
    7. A Simple Life
    8. Cloud Atlas
    9. The Kid With a Bike
    10. Damsels in Distress
    Last five movies seen:
    Chunhyang (2000) **1/2
    Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) **
    Valhalla Rising (2009) ***1/2
    Young Adult (2011) *
    How I Ended This Summer (2010) *1/2

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    Delicious Serhal's Avatar
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    Updated with Silver Linings Playbook and The Deep Blue Sea.


    Top Ten Films of 2012

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    Updated

    Swapped a couple of films in their rankings; Added The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    Last edited by Elessar; 12-31-2012 at 12:54 PM.

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    Updated with Django Unchained.

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