Film Journal 2012

By: Christo​fer Pierson

• 01
  Married to the Mob
  Jonathan Demme
• 02
  Poetry
  Lee Chang-dong
• 03
  Travellers and Magicians
  Khyentse Norbu
• 04
  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  Niels Arden Oplev
• 05
  Ball of Fire
  Howard Hawks
• 06
  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  David Fincher
• 07
  Baran
  Majid Majidi
• 08
  Love Crime
  Alain Corneau
• 09
  Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• 10
  Castaway on the Moon
  Lee Hae-jun
• 11
  Arch of Triumph
  Lewis Milestone
• 12
  To Be or Not to Be
  Ernst Lubitsch
• 13
  It's a Bikini World
  Stephanie Rothman
• 14
  Meek's Cutoff
  Kelly Reichardt
• 15
  Bolivia
  Adrián Caetano
• 16
  Suddenly
  Diego Lerman
• 17
  Empty Nest
  Daniel Burman
• 18
  How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman
  Nelson Pereira dos Santos
• 19
  Louis C.K.: Hilarious
  Louis C.K.
• 20
  The Lady Vanishes
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 21
  Symbiopsychotaxiplasm
  William Greaves
• 22
  True Grit
  Ethan Coen
• 23
  Inglourious Basterds
  Quentin Tarantino
• 24
  Stranger Than Paradise
  Jim Jarmusch
• 25
  Permanent Vacation
  Jim Jarmusch
• 26
  The Angry Red Planet
  Ib Melchior
• 27
  The Servant
  Joseph Losey
• 28
  Stalker
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 29
  The Mill and the Cross
  Lech Majewski
• 30
  Where the Sidewalk Ends
  Otto Preminger
• 31
  They Live by Night
  Nicholas Ray
• 32
  Side Street
  Anthony Mann
• 33
  The Rules of the Game
  Jean Renoir
• 34
  That Obscure Object of Desire
  Luis Buñuel
• 35
  Art School Confidential
  Terry Zwigoff
• 36
  L'âge d'or
  Luis Buñuel
• 37
  Turn Me On, Goddammit
  Jannicke Systad Jacobsen
• 38
  Rock 'n' Roll High School
  Allan Arkush
• 39
  Wendy and Lucy
  Kelly Reichardt
• 40
  Hell's Island
  Phil Karlson
• 41
  Coffee and Cigarettes
  Jim Jarmusch
• 42
  The Music Lovers
  Ken Russell
• 43
  The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
  Robert Siodmak
• 44
  Foreign Intrigue
  Sheldon Reynolds
• 45
  Dirty Money
  Jean-Pierre Melville
• 46
  The Captive City
  Robert Wise
• 47
  Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure
  Matthew Bate
• 48
  Death Race 2000
  Paul Bartel
• 49
  Five Miles to Midnight
  Anatole Litvak
• 50
  Broadway Danny Rose
  Woody Allen
• 51
  A Woman Is a Woman
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 52
  Dark City
  William Dieterle
• 53
  Les bonnes femmes
  Claude Chabrol
• 54
  Call Northside 777
  Henry Hathaway
• 55
  The Bridesmaid
  Claude Chabrol
• 56
  Death Rides a Horse
  Giulio Petroni
• 57
  The Captive
  Chantal Akerman
• 58
  Marriage Italian-Style
  Vittorio De Sica
• 59
  Warlock
  Edward Dmytryk
• 60
  Le cercle rouge
  Jean-Pierre Melville
• 61
  Rope of Sand
  William Dieterle
• 62
  House of Bamboo
  Samuel Fuller
• 63
  Comedy of Power
  Claude Chabrol
• 64
  Thérèse Raquin
  Marcel Carné
• 65
  The Piano Teacher
  Michael Haneke
• 66
  The Southerner
  Jean Renoir
• 67
  Two Women
  Vittorio De Sica
• 68
  The Man from London
  Béla Tarr
• 69
  The Alley Cats
  Radley Metzger
• 70
  À double tour
  Claude Chabrol
• 71
  Viva Riva!
  Djo Tunda Wa Munga
• 72
  The Music Room
  Satyajit Ray
• 73
  Mysteries of Lisbon
  Raúl Ruiz
• 74
  Eternity and a Day
  Theodoros Angelopoulos
• 75
  Film socialisme
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 76
  Shadows in Paradise
  Aki Kaurismäki
• 77
  Ace in the Hole
  Billy Wilder
• 78
  The Big Combo
  Joseph H. Lewis
• 79
  The Young Savages
  John Frankenheimer
• 80
  Private Hell 36
  Don Siegel
• 81
  Lost in America
  Albert Brooks
• 82
  Tiny Furniture
  Lena Dunham
• 83
  Melancholia
  Lars von Trier
• 84
  Kagemusha
  Akira Kurosawa
• 85
  Witness to Murder
  Roy Rowland
• 86
  The Killer is Loose
  Budd Boetticher
• 87
  Ran
  Akira Kurosawa
• 88
  Crime of Passion
  Gerd Oswald
• 89
  Water Lilies
  Céline Sciamma
• 90
  Woman of Straw
  Basil Dearden
• 91
  Run for Cover
  Nicholas Ray
• 92
  A Walk on the Moon
  Tony Goldwyn
• 93
  The Reader
  Stephen Daldry
• 94
  The Naked Prey
  Cornel Wilde
• 95
  Classe tous risques
  Claude Sautet
• 96
  A Dirty Shame
  John Waters
• 97
  The Navigator
  Buster Keaton
• 98
  Pi
  Darren Aronofsky
• 99
  Deliver Us from Evil
  Amy Berg
• 100
  Fight for Your Right Revisited
  Adam Yauch
• 101
  High Anxiety
  Mel Brooks
• 102
  My Man Godfrey
  Gregory La Cava
• 103
  Story of a Love Affair
  Michelangelo Antonioni
• 104
  She Done Him Wrong
  Lowell Sherman
• 105
  Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
  Roy Boulting
• 106
  House by the River
  Fritz Lang
• 107
  Tsotsi
  Gavin Hood
• 108
  Last Train From Gun Hill
  John Sturges
• 109
  Railroaded!
  Anthony Mann
• 110
  My Dinner with André
  Louis Malle
• 111
  The Mission
  Roland Joffé
• 112
  Witness for the Prosecution
  Billy Wilder
• 113
  Certified Copy
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 114
  Cutter's Way
  Ivan Passer
• 115
  The Panic in Needle Park
  Jerry Schatzberg
• 116
  All the President's Men
  Alan J. Pakula
• 117
  The Man in the Net
  Michael Curtiz
• 118
  See the Sea
  François Ozon
• 119
  A Summer Dress
  François Ozon
• 120
  The Fly
  David Cronenberg
• 121
  The Missouri Breaks
  Arthur Penn
• 122
  House of Tolerance
  Bertrand Bonello
• 123
  Born to Win
  Ivan Passer
• 124
  Patrice O'Neal: Elephant in the Room
• 125
  The Fly
  Kurt Neumann
• 126
  Drive
  Nicolas Winding Refn
• 127
  The Saddest Music in the World
  Guy Maddin
• 128
  Smile
  Michael Ritchie
• 129
  Jackie Brown
  Quentin Tarantino
• 130
  Brand upon the Brain!
  Guy Maddin
• 131
  I Am Love
  Luca Guadagnino
• 132
  Hugo
  Martin Scorsese
• 133
  Hidden
  Michael Haneke
• 134
  Gomorrah
  Matteo Garrone
• 135
  Ridicule
  Patrice Leconte
• 136
  The Descendants
  Alexander Payne
• 137
  Red Planet Mars
  Harry Horner
• 138
  Fambul Tok
  Sara Terry
• 139
  The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights
  Emmett Malloy
• 140
  If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
  Marshall Curry
• 141
  Of Love One Lives
  Silvano Agosti
• 142
  An Unmarried Woman
  Paul Mazursky
• 143
  Blame It on Fidel!
  Julie Gavras
• 144
  Danton
  Andrzej Wajda
• 145
  The Baader Meinhof Complex
  Uli Edel
• 146
  L'auberge espagnole
  Cédric Klapisch
• 147
  Cat People
  Jacques Tourneur
• 148
  Sideways
  Alexander Payne
• 149
  Still Life
  Jia Zhangke
• 150
  Moneyball
  Bennett Miller
• 151
  The Curse of the Cat People
  Robert Wise
• 152
  Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
  Alex Gibney
• 153
  Zero For Conduct
  Jean Vigo
• 154
  L'Atalante
  Jean Vigo
• 155
  À propos de Nice
  Jean Vigo
• 156
  Jean Taris, Swimming Champion
  Jean Vigo
• 157
  Run for the Sun
  Roy Boulting
• 158
  Diabolique
  Henri-Georges Clouzot
• 159
  Golden Salamander
  Ronald Neame
• 160
  Caxambu
  W. Lee Wilder
• 161
  The Turin Horse
  Béla Tarr
• 162
  Beyond the Time Barrier
  Edgar G. Ulmer
• 163
  Man-Eater of Kumaon
  Byron Haskin
• 164
  Killer's Kiss
  Stanley Kubrick
• 165
  Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies
  Arne Glimcher
• 166
  Glengarry Glen Ross
  James Foley
• 167
  George Carlin: Life Is Worth Losing
  Rocco Urbisci
• 168
  Barbarella
  Roger Vadim
• 169
  The Yes Men Fix the World
  Andy Bichlbaum
• 170
  Death in the Garden
  Luis Buñuel
• 171
  The Barefoot Contessa
  Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• 172
  Bicycle Thieves
  Vittorio De Sica
• 173
  George Carlin: You are All Diseased
  Rocco Urbisci
• 174
  George Carlin: Complaints and Grievances
  Rocco Urbisci
• 175
  Le samouraï
  Jean-Pierre Melville
• 176
  Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip
  Joe Layton
• 177
  The Match Factory Girl
  Aki Kaurismäki
• 178
  Key Largo
  John Huston
• 179
  Black Narcissus
  Michael Powell
• 180
  The Blue Angel
  Josef von Sternberg
• 181
  Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
  Craig McCall
• 182
  Paul Goodman Changed My Life
  Jonathan Lee
• 183
  Odds Against Tomorrow
  Robert Wise
• 184
  Poto and Cabengo
  Jean-Pierre Gorin
• 185
  Patterns
  Fielder Cook
• 186
  Blueprint for Robbery
  Jerry Hopper
• 187
  Mid-August Lunch
  Gianni Di Gregorio
• 188
  A Game of Death
  Robert Wise
• 189
  The African Queen
  John Huston
• 190
  The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia
  Julien Nitzberg
• 191
  À nos amours
  Maurice Pialat
• 192
  Night Train to Munich
  Carol Reed
• 193
  Paths of Glory
  Stanley Kubrick
• 194
  Margin Call
  J.C. Chandor
• 195
  The Flaw
  David Sington
• 196
  Collapse
  Chris Smith
• 197
  Surviving Progress
  Mathieu Roy
• 198
  Maxed Out
  James D. Scurlock
• 199
  Master of the World
  William Witney
• 200
  Me and You and Everyone We Know
  Miranda July
• 201
  The Flying Deuces
  A. Edward Sutherland
• 202
  Payback
  Jennifer Baichwal
• 203
  Alaska Seas
  Jerry Hopper
• 204
  GasLand
  Josh Fox
• 205
  35 Shots of Rum
  Claire Denis
• 206
  Red River
  Howard Hawks
• 207
  The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
  John Ford
• 208
  Crazy, Stupid, Love.
  Glenn Ficarra
• 209
  A Touch of Larceny
  Guy Hamilton
• 210
  House
  Nobuhiko Obayashi
• 211
  Kwaidan
  Masaki Kobayashi
• 212
  House on Haunted Hill
  William Castle
• 213
  50 First Dates
  Peter Segal
• 214
  Werewolf of London
  Stuart Walker
• 215
  Clueless
  Amy Heckerling
• 216
  The Fire Within
  Louis Malle
• 217
  Rear Window
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 218
  Bernie
  Richard Linklater
• 219
  The Kennel Murder Case
  Michael Curtiz
• 220
  Behind the Mask
  Phil Karlson
• 221
  Abel Raises Cain
  Jenny Abel
• 222
  From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China
  Murray Lerner
• 223
  Dakota Incident
  Lewis R. Foster
• 224
  Skyfall
  Sam Mendes
• 225
  Apache Uprising
  R.G. Springsteen
• 226
  Forbidden Games
  René Clément
• 227
  Fort Massacre
  Joseph M. Newman
• 228
  Flaming Feather
  Ray Enright
• 229
  Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
  Bertrand Blier
• 230
  What's New Pussycat?
  Clive Donner
• 231
  Two Way Stretch
  Robert Day
• 232
  Chasing Ice
  Jeff Orlowski
• 233
  Starting Over
  Alan J. Pakula
• 234
  Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
  John Sturges
• 235
  Young Adult
  Jason Reitman
• 236
  Insomnia
  Erik Skjoldbjærg
• 237
  Mouchette
  Robert Bresson
• 238
  Oslo, August 31st
  Joachim Trier
• 239
  Chocolat
  Claire Denis
• 240
  A Dangerous Method
  David Cronenberg
• 241
  Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• 242
  Nobody Else But You
  Gérald Hustache-Mathieu
• 243
  Mandabi
  Ousmane Sembène
• 244
  Brimstone
  Joseph Kane
• 245
  Go West
  Buster Keaton
• 246
  The Kid with a Bike
  Jean-Pierre Dardenne
• 247
  Election
  Johnnie To
• 248
  The Queen of Versailles
  Lauren Greenfield
• 249
  The Artist
  Michel Hazanavicius
• 250
  Double Indemnity
  Billy Wilder
• 251
  Chinatown
  Roman Polanski
• 252
  Knife in the Water
  Roman Polanski
• 253
  Heart of Glass
  Werner Herzog
• 254
  Citizen Kane
  Orson Welles
• 255
  Bridesmaids
  Paul Feig
• 256
  Highly Dangerous
  Roy Ward Baker
• 257
  Martha Marcy May Marlene
  Sean Durkin