Favorite Films of 2012

By: Daniel Kasman

A work in progress in order of viewing / release. Includes films seen in previous years (usually at film festivals) as they are released in the US. They are listed as if they were viewed when they are released theatrically in 2012.

• 01
  It May Be That Beauty Has Reinforced Our Resolve – Masao Adachi
  Philippe Grandrieux
• 02
  Miss Bala
  Gerardo Naranjo
• 03
  The Turin Horse
  Béla Tarr
• 04
  This Is Not a Film
  Mojtaba Mirtahasebi
• 05
  The Kid with a Bike
  Jean-Pierre Dardenne
• 06
  4:44 Last Day on Earth
  Abel Ferrara
• 07
  A Simple Life
  Ann Hui
• 08
  The Deep Blue Sea
  Terence Davies
• 09
  The Day He Arrives
  Hong Sang-soo
• 10
  Paradise: Love
  Ulrich Seidl
• 11
  Student
  Darezhan Omirbaev
• 12
  Night Across the Street
  Raúl Ruiz
• 13
  In Another Country
  Hong Sang-soo
• 14
  Like Someone in Love
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 15
  You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet!
  Alain Resnais
• 16
  For Love's Sake
  Takashi Miike
• 17
  Dream and Silence
  Jaime Rosales
• 18
  Cosmopolis
  David Cronenberg
• 19
  Gangs of Wasseypur: Part I
  Anurag Kashyap
• 20
  Gangs of Wasseypur: Part II
  Anurag Kashyap
• 21
  11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate
  Kôji Wakamatsu
• 22
  Bernie
  Richard Linklater
• 23
  The Unspeakable Act
  Dan Sallitt
• 24
  Magic Mike
  Steven Soderbergh
• 25
  Departure
  Ernie Gehr
• 26
  Three Sisters
  Wang Bing
• 27
  Perret in France and Algeria
  Heinz Emigholz
• 28
  differently, Molussia
  Nicolas Rey
• 29
  August and After
  Nathaniel Dorsky
• 30
  Passion
  Brian De Palma
• 31
  Viola
  Matías Piñeiro
• 32
  View from the Acropolis
  Lonnie van Brummelen
• 33
  Dormant Beauty
  Marco Bellocchio
• 34
  Leviathan
  Verena Paravel
• 35
  Motorway
  Cheang Pou-Soi
• 36
  Berberian Sound Studio
  Peter Strickland
• 37
  The Hole
  Joe Dante
• 38
  In the Stone House
  Jerome Hiler
• 39
  April
  Nathaniel Dorsky
• 40
  When Faces Touch
  Paolo Gioli
• 41
  Point de Gaze
  Jodie Mack
• 42
  The Man Phoning Mum
  John Smith
• 43
  Another Void
  Paul Clipson
• 44
  Which Ceaselessly Float Up
  Vanessa O'Neill
• 45
  Never a Foot Too Far, Even
  Daichi Saito
• 46
  Deep Red
  Esther Urlus
• 47
  Antiphon
  Peter Kubelka
• 48
  Two Years at Sea
  Ben Rivers
• 49
  Flight
  Robert Zemeckis
• 50
  Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
  John Hyams