DW Top Films 2012

[Dan Warburton]

Once more I've decided to hold a gun to my own head and try to come up with a Top 20 of the 315 films I've seen this year. Here they are in no particular order (alphabetical order by name of director, actually):

Chantal Akerman, D'Est, 1993
Lindsay Anderson, O Lucky Man!, 1973
Alan Arkin, Little Murders, 1971
Luis Buñuel, The Young One, 1960
Leos Carax, Holy Motors, 2012
Alex Cox, Three Businessmen, 1998
Alex Cox, Searchers 2.0, 2007
Claire Denis, L'intrus, 2004
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Despair, 1978
Marco Ferreri, L'ultima donna, 1976
Monte Hellman, Road to Nowhere, 2010
Dennis Hopper, The Last Movie, 1971
Nikita Mikhalkov, Urga, 1991
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, Black Narcissus, 1947
Alain Resnais, Providence, 1977
Jacques Rivette, L'amour fou, 1969
Nicolas Roeg, Bad Timing, 1980
Jacques Rozier, Maine Océan, 1986
Ken Russell, The Devils, 1971
Wim Wenders, Im Lauf der Zeit, 1976

But thought you might like to know the runners up too, fwiw

Chantal Akerman, Sud, 1999
Olivier Assayas, Boarding Gate, 2007
Bernardo Bertolucci, Il conformista, 1970
Sergio Corbucci, Il grande silenzio, 1968
Claire Denis, Chocolat, 1988
Maurice Elvey, Hindle Wakes, 1927
Victor Erice, El espíritu de la colmena, 1973
Claude Faraldo, Themroc, 1973
Claude Goretta, La dentellière, 1977
Wojciech Has, Sanatorium pod klepsydra, 1973
Richard Lester, Petulia, 1968
Louis Malle, Lacombe Lucien, 1974
Max Ophüls, Madame de..., 1953
Todd Rohal, The Guatemalan Handshake, 2006
Carlos Saura, Cria Cuervos, 1976
John Schlesinger, A Kind of Loving, 1962
Don Siegel, The Beguiled, 1971
Luchino Visconti, Lo Straniero, 1967

Needless to say I can recommend any of the above to anyone who hasn't seen them. Enjoy! And a Happy New Year to all, when it comes.