Locarno 2012 ranked

By: Michael Nordine

A few of these (Neighboring Sounds, Magic Mike, Compliance, Wrong) I’d already seen; others (Mekong Hotel, Holy Motors) were difficult to judge in any meaningful way due to early-fest jet lag and will likely require a second viewing.

• 01
  Leviathan
  Verena Paravel
• 02
  The Landlords
  Edoardo Gabbriellini
• 03
  Museum Hours
  Jem Cohen
• 04
  Starlet
  Sean Baker
• 05
  When Night Falls
  Ying Liang
• 06
  Neighbouring Sounds
  Kleber Mendonça Filho
• 07
  Magic Mike
  Steven Soderbergh
• 08
  The Shine of Day
  Tizza Covi
• 09
  Berberian Sound Studio
  Peter Strickland
• 10
  Mekong Hotel
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• 11
  Holy Motors
  Léos Carax
• 12
  Jack and Diane
  Bradley Rust Gray
• 13
  Capitaine Thomas Sankara
  Christophe Cupelin
• 14
  Sister
  Ursula Meier
• 15
  Room 237
  Rodney Ascher
• 16
  Bachelorette
  Leslye Headland
• 17
  No
  Pablo Larraín
• 18
  Tectonics
  Peter Bo Rappmund
• 19
  The Girl from Nowhere
  Jean-Claude Brisseau
• 20
  Chiri
  Naomi Kawase
• 21
  Lullaby Ride
  Christoph Schaub
• 22
  Compliance
  Craig Zobel
• 23
  More Than Honey
  Markus Imhoof
• 24
  Orléans
  Virgil Vernier
• 25
  I, Anna
  Barnaby Southcombe
• 26
  Playback
  Sho Miyake
• 27
  The Sweeney
  Nick Love
• 28
  The Black Balloon
  Ben Safdie
• 29
  Wrong
  Quentin Dupieux
• 30
  Ape
  Joel Potrykus
• 31
  Somebody Up There Likes Me
  Bob Byington
• 32
  Dust
  Julio Hernández Cordon
• 33
  Hip Moves
  Hervé P. Gustave