Favourite Movies of 2012
My "official" year-end top list.Year by the first general/non-festival release listed…
My "official" year-end top list.Year by the first general/non-festival release listed…
Jan 3
Dec 31
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Movies seen at the cinema in 2012
My other best-of-year lists are based on IMDb release year; this list…
Scott Rudin 11
Woody Allen 11
Stan Lee 2
Gary Jay 3
Jim Clay 2
Clay Cullen 10
Peter Burgis 11
Lee Dichter 11
Jay Peck 9
Ann Roth 3
Ve Neill 4
Paramount 18
Canal+ 11
BBC Film 8
BBC 7
Philip Shane 5.0
Steve Purcell 4.5
Jack Cutting 4.0
Barry Cook 4.0
Jeff Newitt 4.0
Chris Hopewell 4.0
Kyle Balda 3.5
Anthony Stacchi 2.0
David Till 5.0
Andrew Shea 5.0
Lisa Janowski 5.0
Timothy Bird 5.0
Hilton A. Green 5.0
Pascal Roy 5.0
David Gilchrist 5.0
Claire Hughes 5.0
Ian Woolf 5.0
Ellen Rauch 5.0
David Larson 5.0
Nandi Bowe 5.0
Randy Fletcher 5.0
Lance Roehrig 5.0
Jolian Blevins 5.0
Charlie Picerni 5.0
Tom Meade 4.5
John Mahaffie 4.5
Joss Whedon 4.5
Mickey Gilbert 4.5
Scott Rogers 4.5
Trey Thomas 4.5
Tracy Boyd 4.5
Stephane Stoll 4.5
Allan Graf 4.3
G. A. Aguilar 4.0
Kitarou Kousaka 4.0
Alexander Witt 4.0
Jacob Brackman 4.0
Les Clark 4.0
Joseph P. Reidy 5.0
Scott Franklin 5.0
Jerry Fruchtman 5.0
Rose Garnett 5.0
Chris Moore 5.0
Palmer West 5.0
Eric Watson 5.0
Claudie Ossard 5.0
Helmut Breuer 5.0
Bastian Griese 5.0
Frank Capra 5.0
William Castle 5.0
Dona Holloway 5.0
Jon Hess 5.0
John Morrissey 5.0
David McKenna 5.0
Matthew Vaughn 5.0
Jane Goldman 5.0
Adam Bohling 5.0
Jon Avnet 5.0
David Thwaites 5.0
Brad Fischer 5.0
Ari Handel 5.0
Rick Schwartz 5.0
Kevin Smith 5.0
Scott Mosier 5.0
Jonathan Gordon 5.0
Nick Wechsler 5.0
Beau Flynn 5.0
Richard A. Roth 5.0
Lawrence Turman 5.0
Bill Carraro 5.0
Brian Witten 5.0
Kearie Peak 5.0
Mark Millar 5.0
John Romita Jr. 5.0
Stephen Marks 5.0
Andres Heinz 5.0
Mark Heyman 5.0
Matt Damon 5.0
Darren Aronofsky 5.0
Hubert Selby Jr. 5.0
Joseph Stefano 5.0
David Lynch 5.0
Frank Capra 5.0
Albert Hackett 5.0
Frances Goodrich 5.0
David McKenna 5.0
Matthew Vaughn 5.0
Brad Bird 5.0
Tim McCanlies 5.0
Ted Hughes 5.0
Frank Pierson 5.0
Éric Toledano 5.0
Hubert Selby Jr. 5.0
Robert Bloch 5.0
Mark Millar 5.0
John Romita Jr. 5.0
Leslie Waller 5.0
P.F. Kluge 5.0
Thomas Moore 5.0
Jim Henson 5.0
Avery Corman 5.0
Louis Begley 5.0
Jo Nesbø 5.0
Irvine Welsh 4.5
Stephen Chbosky 4.5
Jack Kirby 4.5
Joe Simon 4.5
Garon Tsuchiya 4.5
Annie Proulx 4.5
Ann Goulder 5.0
Bruce Winant 5.0
Gayle Keller 5.0
Freddy Luis 5.0
Valérie Espagne 5.0
Alberte Garo 5.0
Andy Pryor 5.0
Pamela Guest 5.0
Johanna Ray 5.0
Pat Golden 5.0
Shaunda G. Jones 5.0
Gigi Akoka 5.0
Liv Charpentier 5.0
Rori Bergman 5.0
Lauren Fernandes 5.0
Michael Sanford 5.0
Kent Blocher 5.0
Kelley Dixon 5.0
Hervé Schneid 5.0
Duwayne Dunham 5.0
William Hornbeck 5.0
Bob Wyman 5.0
Glenn Cocco 5.0
Eddie Hamilton 5.0
Tamsin Jeffrey 5.0
Sheri Galloway 5.0
Dede Allen 5.0
James Thomas 5.0
Robert Frazen 5.0
Bob Ducsay 5.0
Joseph Kirkland 5.0
Joe Walker 5.0
John L. Russell 5.0
Brian Tufano 5.0
Joseph F. Biroc 5.0
Joseph Walker 5.0
Victor Milner 5.0
Tony Kaye 5.0
Eigil Bryld 5.0
Steven Wilzbach 5.0
Mathieu Vadepied 5.0
Don Burgess 5.0
Steve Yedlin 5.0
Sean Bobbitt 5.0
Tim Fleming 5.0
James Glennon 5.0
Jas Shelton 5.0
James J. Miller 5.0
Joseph V. Cicio 5.0
Brian Heller 5.0
Alicia Weber 5.0
Dominique Colin 5.0
Jörg Widmer 5.0
Bob Shipsey 5.0
Simon Bray 5.0
Tony Kaye 5.0
Charles Papert 5.0
Frank Prinzi 5.0
John Newby 5.0
George Pattison 5.0
Christine Beck 5.0
Lukasz Jogalla 5.0
Dale Myrand 5.0
Timothy Naylor 5.0
Randy Nolen 5.0
Mark Colicci 5.0
Michel Sabourdy 5.0
John G. Velez 5.0
Bryan Forde 5.0
Phil Testa 5.0
Willie Cadden 5.0
Homer Plannette 5.0
Dale Obert 5.0
David Jarrell 5.0
Charles Houston 5.0
David Smith 5.0
Bill Newell 5.0
Kevin Kelley 5.0
James Plannette 5.0
Jonathan Lumley 4.8
Don Stott 4.5
Dusty Wallace 4.5
John Parsons 4.5
Patrick Murray 4.5
Lauren Petzke 4.5
Stefan de Leuw 5.0
William Robinson 5.0
Bob Gorelick 5.0
Paul Reuter 5.0
Simon Beaufils 5.0
Océane Lavergne 5.0
Jaron Presant 5.0
Kirk Bales 5.0
Ann Lukacs 5.0
Dan Kneece 5.0
Eric Engler 4.5
Don Burgess 4.5
Brad Shield 4.5
Matthew E. Alper 4.5
Roger Wall 4.5
Jason Rueda 4.5
Bryan P. Jones 4.5
Zak Hawley 4.5
Aline Bonetto 5.0
Jon Gary Steele 5.0
Mark Whiting 5.0
Charles Bailey 5.0
Ed Verreaux 5.0
Stephen Marsh 5.0
Laurence Bennett 5.0
Paul Sylbert 5.0
Tamara Conboy 5.0
Steve Saklad 4.8
James Chinlund 4.8
Patricia Norris 4.8
Sharon Seymour 4.7
Jane Ann Stewart 4.7
Alison Chitty 4.5
Thérèse DePrez 4.5
Richard Sylbert 4.5
David Stein 5.0
Judy Rhee 5.0
Joseph Hurley 5.0
Volker Schäfer 5.0
Daniel Kolarov 5.0
Mathieu Junot 5.0
Tracey Gallacher 5.0
Niki Longmuir 5.0
Jack Okey 5.0
Joel Schiller 5.0
Dan Olexiewicz 5.0
J. Kyler Black 5.0
Sarah Stuart 5.0
Joe Howard 5.0
Alan Bodner 5.0
Douglas Higgins 5.0
Mathieu Vadepied 5.0
Tora Peterson 5.0
Hank Liebeskind 5.0
Jaro Dick 5.0
Ondine Karady 5.0
Thorsten Sabel 5.0
Penny Crawford 5.0
Frank Silva 5.0
Robert Nelson 5.0
Tessa Posnansky 5.0
Steve Rosse 5.0
James R. Bilz 5.0
Alan Hicks 5.0
William 'Billy Jack' Jakielaszek 5.0
Edouard Valton 5.0
Greg Hull 5.0
Russell A. Cully 5.0
Allen Hall 5.0
Gary L. Karas 5.0
Dieter Sturm 5.0
David Waine 5.0
Chris Cline 5.0
Hummer Højmark 5.0
Brian Ricci 4.8
Daniel Hays 4.8
Lou Carlucci 4.5
Milt Rice 4.5
Maurice Routly 4.5
Robert J. Scupp 4.5
Alain Carsoux 5.0
Edouard Valton 5.0
Grant Mason 5.0
Tony Steers 5.0
Stephen Jennings 5.0
Andy Taylor 5.0
Mattias Lindahl 5.0
Richard Briscoe 5.0
Jesh Murthy 5.0
Glenn Allen 5.0
Scott Frankel 5.0
Mark Russell 5.0
Roopesh Gujar 5.0
Paloma Añoveros 5.0
Sean Farrow 5.0
Hoyt Yeatman 5.0
David McCullough 5.0
Jeff Kryvicky 5.0
Peter Menich 5.0
John Bair 5.0
Gareth Smith 5.0
Jenny Lee 5.0
Saul Bass 4.5
Steve Viola 4.5
Baik 4.5
Jessica Hische 4.5
Tom George 4.5
John Brian King 4.5
Kyle Cooper 4.5
Nina Saxon 4.5
James S. Pollak 4.5
Simon Kilroe 4.5
Dean Wares 4.5
Nathan Carlson 4.5
Jenny Lee 4.5
Richard Morrison 4.2
Pablo Ferro 4.0
Sébastien Seveau 5.0
Steven Ritzi 5.0
Gary Davis 5.0
Barbara Christie 5.0
Natalie Jean 5.0
Abby Nelson 5.0
Sarah Lane 5.0
Maria Riccetto 5.0
Lisa Ann Murphy 5.0
Brian Ricci 5.0
Tom Lucy 5.0
Tom Delmar 5.0
Terry Forrestal 5.0
Nrinder Dhudwar 5.0
Paul Heasman 5.0
Andreas Petrides 5.0
Kurt Froman 5.0
Aakomon Jones 4.5
Terry Notary 4.5
Paul Becker 4.5
Miriam Nelson 4.5
Jack Cole 4.5
Adam Shankman 4.2
Teresa Espinosa 4.0
Gareth Evans 4.0
Iko Uwais 4.0
Yayan Ruhian 4.0
Alison Faulk 4.0
Mia Michaels 4.0
Toni Basil 3.5
Anne Fletcher 3.5
Kimberly Sato 3.5
Yann Tiersen 5.0
Dimitri Tiomkin 5.0
Krzysztof Komeda 5.0
Anne Dudley 5.0
Ilan Eshkeri 5.0
Marius de Vries 5.0
Michael Kamen 5.0
Ludovico Einaudi 5.0
Nathan Johnson 5.0
Harry Escott 5.0
Ludovic Bource 5.0
Glen Hansard 5.0
Markéta Irglová 5.0
David Kitay 5.0
Jeppe Kaas 5.0
Trond Bjerknes 5.0
Joel Goodman 5.0
Stephen Rennicks 5.0
Clint Mansell 4.8
Bret McKenzie 5.0
Glen Hansard 5.0
Markéta Irglová 5.0
Anna Kendrick 4.5
Eddie Vedder 4.5
Howard Ashman 4.5
Alan Menken 4.5
Alex Turner 4.5
Matty Malneck 4.5
Elliott Smith 4.2
Youmi Kimura 4.0
Leslie Bricusse 4.0
Adele 4.0
Paul Epworth 4.0
Ray Parker, Jr. 4.0
Daniel Wehr 4.0
Peggy Lee 4.0
Sonny Burke 4.0
Richard Rich 4.0
Jim Stafford 4.0
Ken Ishii 5.0
Dror Gescheit 5.0
Larry Kemp 5.0
Wayne Lemmer 5.0
Gina Gyles 5.0
Gus Van Sant 5.0
Tom E. Dahl 5.0
Kelley Baker 5.0
Patrick Winters 5.0
Richard Moore 5.0
Stephen Barden 5.0
Tony Sereno 5.0
Tim O'Connell 5.0
Andrew Tay 5.0
Peter Kelly 5.0
Brad Zoern 5.0
Nelson Ferreira 5.0
Vincent Arnardi 5.0
Laurent Kossayan 5.0
Kate Mulleavy 5.0
Laura Mulleavy 5.0
Carolyn Grifel 5.0
Rachael Fleming 5.0
Edward Stevenson 5.0
Doug Hall 5.0
Sammy Sheldon 5.0
Melissa Toth 5.0
Sharen Davis 5.0
Sonya Lennon 5.0
Amy Westcott 4.8
Rahel Afiley 4.7
Mark Bridges 4.5
Todd Kleitsch 5.0
Chris Kelly 5.0
Leslie A. Sebert 5.0
Mia Thoen 5.0
Vesna Estord 5.0
Vesna Peborde 5.0
Karina Gruais 5.0
Nathalie Tissier 5.0
Dean Jones 5.0
Jeff Goodwin 5.0
Heather Fraker 5.0
Matiki Anoff 5.0
Marianna Najjar 5.0
Ilona Herman 5.0
Fae Hammond 5.0
Reginald Tackley 5.0
Ronnie Specter 5.0
Cheryl Ann Nick 5.0
Paul LeBlanc 5.0
Tony Ward 5.0
Quentin Harris 5.0
Florence Bush 5.0
John Nollet 5.0
Robert McCann 5.0
Sydney Guilaroff 5.0
Sherry Wilson 5.0
Vidal Sassoon 5.0
Karyn Huston 5.0
Bill Fletcher 5.0
Larry M. Cherry 5.0
Ilona Herman 5.0
Fae Hammond 5.0
Catherine Duplan 5.0
Erin Hicks 5.0
Juanita Townsend 5.0
Be Gentlemen Limited Partnership 5.0
Thousand Words 5.0
Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen 5.0
Claudie Ossard Productions 5.0
MMC Independent 5.0
Tapioca Films 5.0
UGC Films 5.0
The Noel Gay Motion Picture Company 5.0
Figment Films 5.0
DEG 5.0
Liberty Films 5.0
William Castle Productions 5.0
Savoy Pictures 5.0
The Turman-Morrissey Company 5.0
Marv 5.0
I continue to maintain that the Diary of a Wimpy Kid films are among the most underrated of the past few years. They're slight, episodic and silly, but they're fantastically entertaining; I'd love a TV series based on these characters.
1. Coen brothers
2. Kevin Smith
3. Mike Leigh
4. Roman Polanski
5. David Fincher
close:
Jason Reitman
Tim Burton
Woody Allen
Rob Reiner
Wes Anderson
Martin Scorsese
Sidney Lumet
Quentin Tarantino
4.4
1.3
4.1
vs 3.19
vs 3.20
vs 2.78
vs 2.89
vs 2.92
vs 2.95
vs 3.84
vs 2.74
vs 3.17
vs 3.49
vs 3.45
vs 2.94
Stats by Letterboxd