What Was Watched in 2012..

By: Lily Edsdótt​ir

Under each month a ranked list of what I watched for the first time that month. At the bottom of the page a ranked list of everything I watched for the first time this year.

April
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989, Woody Allen) 10/10
She’s a Boy I Knew (2007, Gwen Haworth) 9/10 NOT IN THE DATABASE YET
Drive (2011, Nicolas Winding Refn) 8/10
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011, Lynne Ramsay) 7/10
My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999, Isao Takahata) 7/10
The King’s Speech (2010, Tom Hooper) 6/10
Tyrannosaur (2011, Paddy Considine) 5/10

March
White Mountains (1964, Melis Ubukeyev) 9/10
Paprika (2006, Satoshi Kon) 8/10
Public Housing (1997, Frederick Wiseman) 8/10
Neon Genesis Evangelion: End of Evangelion (1997, Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki) 7/10
The Way You Wanted Me (1944, Teuvo Tulio) 6/10
A Thousand Months (2003, Faouzi Bensaïdi) 5/10
The Secret of NIMH (1982, Don Bluth) 5/10
The Clay Bird (2002, Tareque Masud) 5/10
The Fifth Element (1997, Luc Besson) 1/10

February
Man With A Movie Camera (1929, Dziga Vertov) 10/10
The Apple (1998, Samira Makhmalbaf) 9/10
Happy End (1967, Oldrich Lipský) 8/10
Tree of Knowledge (1981, Nils Malmros) 8/10
Tokyo Godfathers (2003, Satoshi Kon, Shôgo Furuya) 7/10
Sherman’s March (1986, Ross McElwee) 7/10
Tropical Fish (1995, Chen Yu-hsun) 7/10
Egg (2007, Semih Kaplanoğlu) 6/10
Village People Radio Show (2007, Amir Muhammad) 6/10
Blackboards (2000, Samira Makhmalbaf) 6/10
Crisis (1946, Ingmar Bergman) 5/10
The Runner (1985, Amir Naderi) 4/10
The Needle (1988, Rashid Nugmanov) 3/10
The Seven Year Itch (1955, Billy Wilder) 1/10

January
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965, Sergei Parajanov) 10/10
Not Reconciled (1965, Jean-Marie Straub) 8/10
Hour of the Wolf (1968, Ingmar Bergman) 8/10
From the Life of the Marionettes (1980, Ingmar Bergman) 8/10
A Spring for the Thirsty (1965, Yuri Ilyenko) 8/10
A Town Called Panic (2009, Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar) 7/10
The American Friend (1977, Wim Wenders) 7/10
Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (2003, Kazuhisa Takenôchi) 6/10
Room 666 (1982, Wim Wenders) 4/10

Also, rewatches (feature films only, so that Brakhage shorts don’t dominate the list :P):
Millennium Actress (2002, Satoshi Kon) 9/10
Donnie Darko (2001, Richard Kelly) 7/10

• 01
  Man with a movie camera
  Dziga Vertov
• 02
  Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
  Sergei Parajanov
• 03
  Crimes and Misdemeanors
  Woody Allen
• 04
  The Apple
  Samira Makhmalbaf
• 05
  White Mountains
  Melis Ubukeyev
• 06
  Not Reconciled
  Jean-Marie Straub
• 07
  Hour of the Wolf
  Ingmar Bergman
• 08
  Happy End
  Oldřich Lipský
• 09
  Drive
  Nicolas Winding Refn
• 10
  From the Life of the Marionettes
  Ingmar Bergman
• 11
  A Spring for the Thirsty
  Yuri Ilyenko
• 12
  Paprika
  Satoshi Kon
• 13
  Public Housing
  Frederick Wiseman
• 14
  Tree of Knowledge
  Nils Malmros
• 15
  Tokyo Godfathers
  Satoshi Kon
• 16
  We Need to Talk About Kevin
  Lynne Ramsay
• 17
  Sherman's March
  Ross McElwee
• 18
  A Town Called Panic
  Stéphane Aubier
• 19
  Neon Genesis Evangelion: End of Evangelion
  Kazuya Tsurumaki
• 20
  My Neighbors the Yamadas
  Isao Takahata
• 21
  Tropical Fish
  Chen Yu-hsun
• 22
  The American Friend
  Wim Wenders
• 23
  Egg
  Semih Kaplanoğlu
• 24
  Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem
  Kazuhisa Takenôchi
• 25
  The King's Speech
  Tom Hooper
• 26
  The Way You Wanted Me
  Teuvo Tulio
• 27
  Village People Radio Show
  Amir Muhammad
• 28
  Blackboards
  Samira Makhmalbaf
• 29
  The Secret of NIMH
  Don Bluth
• 30
  A Thousand Months
  Faouzi Bensaïdi
• 31
  Tyrannosaur
  Paddy Considine
• 32
  The Clay Bird
  Tareque Masud
• 33
  Crisis
  Ingmar Bergman
• 34
  Room 666
  Wim Wenders
• 35
  The Runner
  Amir Naderi
• 36
  The Needle
  Rashid Nugmanov
• 37
  The Seven Year Itch
  Billy Wilder
• 38
  The Fifth Element
  Luc Besson