The Top X Films You've Seen this Year that are NOT from 2012

[Yasujiro]

[*]Ohhikoshi (dir. Shinji Sômai, 1993)

I just saw this, and it's gorgeous. The girl's inner world is expressed so beautifully.

The best ones I've seen this year (out of 236):

01 Sans soleil (1983, Chris Marker)
02 Yearning (1964, Mikio Naruse)
03 The Set-Up (1949, Robert Wise)
04 Le jour se lève (1939, Marcel Carné)
05 It's a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra)
06 Ménilmontant (1926, Dimitri Kirsanoff)
07 Eros + Massacre (1969, Yoshishige Yoshida)
08 Straits of Hunger (1965, Tomu Uchida)
09 The Executioner (1963, Luis García Berlanga)
10 Tokyo Twilight (1957, Yasujirō Ozu)

11 Woman in the Dunes (1964, Hiroshi Teshigahara)
12 Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese)
13 House of Tolerance (2011, Bertrand Bonello)
14 The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (1971, Stan Brakhage)
15 Rapt (1934, Dimitri Kirsanoff)
16 Close-Up (1990, Abbas Kiarostami)
17 Margaret (2011, Kenneth Lonergan)
18 Bigger Than Life (1956, Nicholas Ray)
19 Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948, Max Ophüls)
20 Memories of Underdevelopment (1968, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)


21 I Knew Her Well (1965, Antonio Pietrangeli)
22 The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman (1963, Kihachi Okamoto)
23 Wings (1966, Larisa Shepitko)
24 The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, Orson Welles)
25 Three Stories (1997, Kira Muratova)
26 Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957, Frank Tashlin)
27 Black Narcissus (1947, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
28 The End of Evangelion (1997, Hideaki Anno & Kazuya Tsurumaki)
29 Oslo, August 31st (2011, Joachim Trier)
30 The Innocents (1961, Jack Clayton)

31 The Insect Woman (1963, Shōhei Imamura)
32 Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang)
33 Boy (1969, Nagisa Ōshima)
34 Older Brother, Younger Sister (1953, Mikio Naruse)
35 Shadow of a Doubt (1943, Alfred Hitchcock)
36 La ciénaga (2001, Lucrecia Martel)
37 A Treatise on Japanese Bawdy Songs (1967, Nagisa Ōshima)
38 Xala (1975, Ousmane Sembène)
39 Spring in a Small Town (1948, Fei Mu)
40 Ossessione (1943, Luchino Visconti)

41 A Bloody Spear on Mount Fuji (1955, Tomu Uchida)
42 Merry-Go-Round (1956, Fábri Zoltán)
43 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944, Preston Sturges)
44 Anzukko (1958, Mikio Naruse)
45 Moonrise (1948, Frank Borzage)
46 Lonesome (1928, Fejös Pál)
47 Early Spring (1956, Yasujirō Ozu)
48 Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988, Terence Davies)
49 Cairo Station (1958, Youssef Chahine)
50 Crush (1992, Alison Maclean)

[cdmc]

I just saw this, and it's gorgeous. The girl's inner world is expressed so beautifully.

The best ones I've seen this year (out of 236):

01 Sans soleil (1983, Chris Marker)
07 Eros + Massacre (1969, Yoshishige Yoshida)
09 The Executioner (1963, Luis García Berlanga)
10 Tokyo Twilight (1957, Yasujirō Ozu)

11 Woman in the Dunes (1964, Hiroshi Teshigahara)
18 Bigger Than Life (1956, Nicholas Ray)
19 Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948, Max Ophüls)
20 Memories of Underdevelopment (1968, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)

Your Top 20 is exquisite. But these particularly are such cool choices - some of my all-time faves!

The number one is correct!

[McTeague]

Yasujiro, do I know you from some other place?

[Aurelius]

Yasujiro, do I know you from some other place?

No, from right here.

All it took was that single post .

[McTeague]

LOL, who was he? Puxx? Jean? Is Jean perma-banned now?

[Aurelius]

Jean is not perma-banned, why should he be?

Just look at the list, the username, the number of films he claims to have seen this year.

[crazyfists3600]

I was thinking Jean...

[JeanRZEJ]

There's more than one person in the world who watches foreign films. And seeing as I've seen eight of those films, it's probably not me.

[McTeague]

No shit!

[BBKing44]

So we've reached the end of the year and I don't expect to watch anything new by tomorrow, so my total number of films seen comes up to 209.

The Top 20:
1. The Conformist (1970)
2. Ran (1985)
3. The General (1926)
4. Harakiri (1962)
5. Barry Lyndon (1975)
6. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
7. Yi Yi (2000)
8. Seven Samurai (1954)
9. Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
10. The Leopard (1963)

11. Three Colors: Blue (1993)
12. Yojimbo (1961)
13. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
14. Kwaidan (1964)
15. The 400 Blows (1959)
16. Russian Ark (2002)
17. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
18. Peeping Tom (1960)
19. 3 Women (1977)
20. Umberto D. (1952)

And Worst 10:
1. Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)
2. The Room (2003)
3. Troll 2 (1990)
4. Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
5. Teenagers from Outer Space (1959)
6. The Last Airbender (2010)
7. Forks Over Knives (2011)
8. Tsotsi (2005)
9. Another Earth (2011)
10. Exporting Raymond (2011)

[Jeff Beachnau]

Okay, here's my final top 15 list, I'm not including movies that were released the past few years, so I'll say before 2006 or so

1 Postcards From the Edge
2 The Last of Sheila
3 The Secret of Roan Inish
4 Rome, Open City
5 Contraband (1940)
6 The House of Usher (Vincent Price)
7 Stalker
8 Lost Highway
9 Body Heat
10 Seven-Per-Cent Solution
11 On the Beach
12 The Ninth Configuration
13 How the West Was Won
14 Runaway Train
15 He Who Gets Slapped

[Dally]

Top 10 films I viewed for the first time in 2012, not released in 2012:

1. Noite Vazia (Khouri, 1964)
2. Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly (Edwin, 2008)
3. Les anges du péché (Bresson, 1943)
4. The Day of the Locust (Schlesinger, 1975)
5. Xala (Sembene, 1975)
6. Westfront 1918 (Pabst, 1930)
7. In a Year with 13 Moons (Fassbinder, 1978)
8. House (Ôbayashi, 1977)
9. Exit Smiling (Taylor, 1926)
10. Lumière d'été (Grémillon, 1943)

[McTeague]

Top 10 films I viewed for the first time in 2012, not released in 2012:


[LIST=1][*]Noite Vazia (Khouri, 1964)

Dally keeps giving us films nobody's heard of! Thank you!

My list, a Top 35, with most of the movies I gave a 4/5 or more this year.


*****
1- Waltz with Bashir (Folman, 2008)
2- The Wind (Sjostrom, 1928)
3- Go West (Keaton, 1925)
4- Joyless Street (Pabst, 1925)
5- The Golden Thread (Ghatak, 1965)
6- El Dorado (Hawks, 1966)

**** ½
7- The Pornographers (Imamura, 1966)
8- Duel in the Sun (Vidor, 1946)
9- The Fortune Cookie (Wilder, 1966)
10- The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 1966)
11- Visitor to a Museum (Lopushansky, 1989)
12- Strike! (Eisenstein, 1925)
13- Marat-Sade (Brook, 1967)
14- Seven Men from Now (Boetticher, 1956)
15- Yi-Yi (Yang, 2000)
16- Seconds (Frankenheimer, 1966)
17- Devil Doll (Browning, 1936)
18- Faces of Children (Feyder, 1925)
19- Hands Across the Table (Leisen, 1935)
20- The Phantom of the Opera (Julian, 1925)
21- Lady Windermere’s Fan (Lubitsch, 1925)
22- The Big Parade (Vidor, 1925)
23- Masculine, feminine (Godard, 1966)

****
24- In the City of Silvia (Guerin, 2007)
25- Love Me Tonight (Mamoulian, 1932)
26- La Boheme (Vidor, 1926)
27- The Chess Players (Ray, 1977)
28- Closely watched Trains (Menzel, 1966)
29- What Did the Lady Forget? (Ozu, 1937)
30- Sparrows (Beaudine, 1926)
31- The Collector (Wyler, 1965)
32- Kill, Baby, Kill! (Bava, 1966)
33- Come Drink with Me (Hu, 1966)
34- Ride the Whirlwind (Hellman, 1965)
35- Young Torless (Schlondorff, 1966)

[cdmc]

Love the love for Ghatak!