In keeping with past practice, here are my top 2012 movies I haven’t seen and want to:
- Compliance
- Les Misérables – please don’t ask how it’s possible that I haven’t seen it. Since Christmas, it’s been hard to invest an outing with the appropriate amount of hysteria.
- Margaret
- Take This Waltz
- This Is 40
- Your Sister’s Sister
Special consideration:
- The Master. I reviewed it here, and even after reading Kent Jones’s magnum opus review in Film Comment, I still couldn’t get over the feeling I came away with — that the movie’s circle was too tightly closed around Freddie and Master. But I wish I’d seen the movie Jones did, and I’m very glad to have read his review.
What have you missed? (Here’s the comprehensive list I’m working from — it’s a mix of the Village Voice ballot and the Oscar reminder.)
The entire past year, I have been extremely neglectful of film — both going to the movies and watching them at home, and even keeping track of them to some degree (for instance, I hadn’t heard of half your list). What have I become?!
I did a quick run down the list last night. Admittedly, there’s a ton there I’ve never heard of and my list is limited to pretty mainstream stuff, but here goes:
Argo
Bernie
End of Watch
Moonrise Kingdom
Red Hook Summer
Sleepwalk With Me
Notwithstanding the vagaries and imperfections of personal taste, Take this Waltz was horrible.
As usual I can’t even remember the movies that I wanted to see but didn’t.
I did see Beau travail last night, and it was excellent. Really beautiful.
One of my all-time favorites. I haven’t scored as well with Claire Denis since that one — the source material may have helped, or maybe I just need to keep going.