Top Tens, etc
2013 Top Ten
1. Diego Star (Pelletier, Can/Bel 2013) 20/28 [7/10]
2=. Zero Dark Thirty (Bigelow, USA 2012*) 20/28 [7]
2=. Star Trek Into Darkness (Abrams, USA 2013*) 20/28 [7]
4. Fata Morgana (Schreiner, Austria 2013) 19+/28 [7]
5. A Hijacking (Lindholm, Denmark 2012*) 19 [7]
6. A Stoker aka The Stoker (Balabanov, Russia 2010*) 19 [7]
7. Lincoln (Spielberg, USA 2012*) 19 [7]
8. Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen & Coen, USA 2013) 19 [7]
9. Karaoke Girl (Vichit-Vadakan, Thai/USA 2013) 19 [7]
10. The Bay (Levinson, USA 2012*) 19 [7]
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2013 world premieres and UK new releases
* = UK release in 2013
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then
7/10 [18/28]
I Am Breathing (Davie & McKinnon, UK 2012*)
Suzanne (Quillévéré, France 2013)
6/10 [17/28]
Death Metal Angola (Xido, USA 2012)
Hors Satan (Dumont, France 2011*)
Houses For All (Wetzel, Germany 2013) – midlength
Like Someone In Love (Kiarostami, Japan/France 2012)*
Neighbouring Sounds (Mendonça Filho, Brazil 2012*)
No (Larraín, Chile/Fr/US 2012)*
Northwest (Noer, Denmark 2013)
Olympus Has Fallen (Fuqua, US 2013)*
Paradise: Love (Seidl, Austria etc 2012)*
The Punk Syndrome (Kärkkäinen & Passi, Finland 2012)*
The Selfish Giant (Barnard, UK 2013)*
Touch (Silver, USA 2013 [mid-length]) 17 [6]
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also released in UK in 2013
6/10 [16/28]
The Comedian; Flying Blind; In the House; Iron Man Three; Shell; Stories We Tell; To The Wonder; The Wall
6/10 [15/28]
Museum Hours; Paradise: Faith; The Place Beyond the Pines
5/10
Beyond the Hills; GI Joe: Retaliation; The Impossible; One Mile Away; Something in the Air; Welcome to the Punch
4/10
Broken City; The Iceman; Thursday Till Sunday; Trance
3/10
Antiviral; Hitchcock; Post Tenebras Lux
2/10
The Moth Diaries; Dead Man Down
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Performances
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2013 world-premiere (* = 2013 UK release)
Conner Chapman, The Selfish Giant*
Clement Blach Petersen, Northwest
Johanna Orsini-Rosenberg, Soldier Jane
Shaun Thomas, The Selfish Giant*
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2013 UK release
Abdihakin Asgar, A Hijacking
Emory Cohen, The Place Beyond the Pines
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Tom Holland, The Impossible
Helen McCrory, Flying Blind
Nabil Saleh, Paradise: Faith
Gary Skjoldmose Porter, A Hijacking
Dana Tapalaga, Beyond the Hills
Ernst Umhauer, In the House
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2012 premiere (and/or UK release) seen 2013, 7+
18/28 [7/10] Life Of Pi (Lee, USA 2012) UK 2012
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archive 7+
27/28 [10/10] Grand Illusion (Renoir, France 1937)*
24/28 [9] The Parallax View (Pakula, USA 1974)
24/28 [9] Cargo 200 (Balabanov, Russia 2007)
22/28 [8] The Chase (Ripley, USA 1946)*
22/28 [8] Possession (Żuławski, Fr/WGer 1981)*
21/28 [8] The Club (Beresford, Australia 1980) DVD
21/28 [8] Bronco Bullfrog (Platts-Mills, UK 1970)*
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20/28 [7] Catch Us If You Can (Boorman, UK 1965)*
20/28 [7] Room at the Top (Clayton, UK 1959)
20/28 [7] The Searchers (Ford, USA 1956)*
19+/28 [7+] Yojimbo (Kurosawa, Japan 1961)*
19/28 [7] It’s a Gift (McLeod, USA 1934)
19/28 [7] The Smiling Lieutenant (Lubitsch, USA 1931)*
18/28 [7] Billy Liar (Schlesinger, UK 1963) DVD
18/28 [7] The Criminal (Losey, UK 1960) DVD*
18/28 [7] The Dancing Soul of the Walking People (Gladstone, USA 1980)*
18/28 [7] Nothing Sacred (Wyler, USA 1937)*
* = first viewing.
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2012 Top Ten
(UK releases and world-premieres)
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1. # Elena (Zvyagintsev, Russia 2011) : 9/10 [25/28]
2. Me Too (Balabanov, Russia 2012) : 9/10 [25]
3. # Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Ceylan, Turkey 2011) : 8/10 [22]
4. Leviathan (Paravel & Castaing-Taylor, USA 2012) : 8/10 [22]
5. Once Upon a Time Was I, Veronica (Gomes, Brazil 2012) : 8/10 [22]
6. # Project X (Nourizadeh, USA 2012) : 8/10 [21]
7. An Anthropological Television Myth
….. (Gagliardo, Bertino & Castelli, Italy 2012) midlength. 8/10 [21]
8. # Sightseers (Wheatley, UK 2012) : 8/10 [21]
9. # Ted (MacFarlane, USA 2012) : 8/10 [21]
10. A Dream’s Merchant (Ilie-Micu, Romania 2012) : 7/10 [20]
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[Comprising feature-length films which either had their world premiere in 2012, or else were released - or will be released - for the first time in the UK during 2012 (latter are marked with #)]
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2012 roundup and UK-release top 10 (for Tribune magazine)
the top 43 world-premieres of 2012 (work-in-progress)
performances of 2012 (UK releases)
then
7/10 [20/28]
. Augustine (Winocour, France 2012)
# Barbara (Petzold, Germany 2012)
# Cosmopolis (Cronenberg, Canada/France 2012)
# Damsels In Distress (Stillman, USA 2011)
Here I Am, Here I’m Not (Eliash, Chile 2012)
# Le Havre (Kaurismäki, France 2011)
. Little World (Barrena, Spain)
. Nor’easter (Brotzman, USA 2012)
. One Way Boogie Woogie (Benning, USA 2012)
> Zero Dark Thirty (Bigelow, USA 2012) [UK 2013]
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7/10 [19/28]
. All Divided Selves (Fowler, UK 2012)
. # Argo (Affleck, US 2012)
. # Avengers Assemble (Whedon, USA 2012, aka The Avengers)
. Babylon (Slim, ‘Ismael’ & Chebbi, Tunisia 2012)
. The Bay (Levinson, USA 2012) > UK 2013
. Bellas Mariposas (Mereu, Italy 2012)
. Children of Sarajevo (Begić, Bosnia etc 2012)
. # Corman’s World – Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (Stapleton, USA 2011)
. Futures Past (Melamed, USA 2012)
> A Hijacking (Lindholm, Denmark 2012) UK 2013
. Hold Back aka Refrain (Djaïdani, France 2012)
> Lincoln (Spielberg, USA 2012) > UK 2013
. # Looper (Johnson, USA 2012)
. # Moonrise Kingdom (Anderson, USA 2012)
. Parabeton – Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete (Emigholz, Germany 2012)
. Pincus (Fenster, USA 2012)
. # Prometheus (Scott, USA 2012)
. La Ruta de la luna (Jácome, Pan/Ecu 2012)
. # Sinister (Derrickson, USA 2012)
. Somebody Up There Likes Me (Byington, USA 2012)
. # 21 Jump Street (Lord & Miller, USA 2012)
. # Tabu (Gomes, Portugal etc 2012)
. Tomorrow (Gryazev, Russia 2012)
. Universal Soldier – Day of Reckoning (Hyams, USA 2012)
. Wrong (Dupieux, USA 2012)
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7/10 [18/28]
. Blancanieves (Berger, Spain 2012)
. # The Cabin in the Woods (Goddard, USA 2012)
. Cursed Be the Phosphate (Tlili, Tunisia/etc 2012)
. # The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan, USA 2012)
. Gone Wild (Curean, Romania 2012)
. I Am Breathing (Davie & McKinnon, UK 2012)
. # The Kid with a Bike (Dardenne & Dardenne, Belgium 2011)
. # Life of Pi (Ang Lee, USA 2012)
. The Love Songs of Tiedan (Hao, China 2012)
. # Magic Mike (Soderbergh, USA 2012)
. # Planet of Snail (Yi, S.Korea 2011)
. La Playa DC (Arango, Colombia 2012)
. # Premium Rush (Koepp, USA 2012)
. A World Not Ours (Fleifel, Palestine/UK/UAE 2012)
…
7?/10 [18?/28]
# Clone (Fliegauf, Ger/Hun/Fr 2010, aka Womb)
……
6+/10 [17+/28]
# Faust; Nightfall
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also 2012 UK-release
6/10 [17/28]
Beasts of the Southern Wild; Chronicle; Dark Horse; The Grey; Hadewijch; Headhunters; The Imposter; Into the Abyss – A Tale of Death, a Tale of Life; Khodorkovsky; Killer Joe; The Myth of the American Sleepover; Safe House; Silent Souls; This Is Not a Film; Wild Bill
…
6/10 [16/28]
Amour aka Love; Berberian Sound Studio; The Bird; Bombay Beach; Coriolanus; The Descendants; The Forgiveness of Blood; The Hunter; Killing Them Softly; Martha Marcy May Marlene; Michael; Nostalgia for the Light; Oliver Sherman; On the Road; The Raid; Rampart; Rust and Bone; Silver Linings Playbook; The Sweeney; The Turin Horse; Two Years At Sea; Wrath of the Titans
6/10 : Blank City [15]; The Bourne Legacy [15]; Dreams of a Life [15]; Dredd [15]; John Carter [15]; My Father’s Bike [15]; Patience (After Sebald) [15]; Shame [15]; Sing Your Song [15]; This Must Be the Place [15]; Untouchable [15]
5/10 : Blackthorn [14]; Carnage [14]; A Dangerous Method [14]; Goodbye, First Love [14]; Grabbers [14]; Room 237 [14]; The Master [14]; Pitch Perfect [14]; The Snows of Kilimanjaro [14]; A Useful Life [14]
5/10 : Carancho [13]; End of Watch [13]; Himizu [13]; The Iron Lady [13]; Lawless [13]; A Simple Life [13]
5/10 : Contraband [12]; Holy Motors [12]; Swandown [12]; War Horse [12]
4/10 : Act of Valor [11]; The Amazing Spider-Man [11]; Haywire [11]; Safe [11]; Take This Waltz [11]; Trishna [11]; You Are God [11]
4/10 : Goon [10]; The Hunt [10]; The Soul of Flies [10]
4/10 : Sister [9]; Jack Reacher [9]
3/10 : Tezz [8]
3/10 : Café de Flore [7]; Life Just Is [7]
3?/10 : Alps [6?]
2/10 : W.E. [5]
Performances (in confirmed UK releases)
LM :
1. Muhammet Uzuner (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia)
2. Marcin Kowalczyk (You Are God)
3. Steve Oram (Sightseers)
4. Channing Tatum (Magic Mike)
5. Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master)
also : Michael Fassbender (Shame and Prometheus); Woody Harrelson (Rampart); Toby Jones (Berberian Sound Studio); Matthew McConaughey (Killer Joe); Viggo Mortensen (A Dangerous Method); Matthias Schoenaerts (Rust and Bone); Mark Wahlberg (Ted); André Wilms (Le Havre).
LF :
1. Nadezhda Markina (Elena)
2. Alice Lowe (Sightseers)
3. Greta Gerwig (Damsels In Distress)
4. Nina Hoss (Barbara)
5. Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady)
also: Ariane Ascaride (Snows of Kilimanjaro); Selma Blair (Dark Horse); Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook); Emmanuelle Riva (Love aka Amour); Julie Sokolowski (Hadewijch); Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild).
SM :
1. James Gandolfini (Killing Them Softly)
2. Pierce Gagnon (Looper)
2. Bob Balaban (Moonrise Kingdom)
4. Vincent Cassel (A Dangerous Method)
5. Heinz Lieven (This Must Be the Place)
also: Taner Birsel (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia); Yılmaz Erdoğan (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia); Werner Herzog (Jack Reacher); Fran Kranz (The Cabin in the Woods); Matthew McConaughey (Magic Mike); Ryan Metcalf (Damsels in Distress); Viggo Mortensen (A Dangerous Method); Guy Pearce (Lawless); Andrei Smirnov (Elena); Christoph Waltz (Carnage).
SF :
1. Teresa Madruga (Tabu)
2. Elena Liodova (Elena)
3. Anne Hathaway (The Dark Knight Rises)
4. Molly Parker (Oliver Sherman)
5. Vanessa Redgrave (Coriolanus)
also: Nicole Beharie (Shame); Eileen Davies (Sightseers); Gina Gershon (Killer Joe); Lena Headey (Dredd); Annika Wedderkopp (The Hunt)
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Previous years’ top tens, etc .
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Best in recent years (23+ out of 28)
2012 : Me Too [25].
2011 : Innocent Saturday [25]; Elena [25]; Rango [23]; Sawdust City [23]; small roads [23].
2010 : The Christening [23]; Finisterrae [23]; The Lord’s Ride [23].
2009 : Symbol [26]; District 9 [24]; The Wolf’s Mouth [23], Green Waters [23].
2008 : The Wrestler [27]; René [24]; Revolutionary Road [24]; Wall-E [24]; Stella [23], Import Export [23].
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