List by Ronan Doyle
2012 Ranked
Now complete and closed.
Being resident in Ireland, yet writing for a site serving an audience exposed to US releases, and having an increasing penchant for festival attendance, "2012 film" for me is a very loose term indeed. The following list includes each film I saw that received either a US, Irish, or Irish festival release in the course of 2012. The criterion met by each film is outlined in the notes (no note=release in Ireland and the US both), as too are links to the reviews I penned on Next Projection for 202 of them. A sprawling mess it might be, but it's all I have to offer; some minor detective work will allow you to deduct my respective 2012 top tens for each territory.
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THE LONELIEST PLANET.
No release for that here yet! Slated to open in Germany early 2013, probably get it around then too.
Just a quick note to say that I'm going to attempt to watch all the films on this list and then see how it matches up. I've seen some before, but another viewing is never necessarily a bad thing. The immediate reasoning for choosing your list is that it just looks so inherently brilliant! I'll get back to you when I've caught up in a month perhaps.
You're going to get through them ALL? Goodness me, good luck with that. It would be really interesting to see how our rankings compare, I get the feeling there'd be a pretty strong overall similarity.
Just out of curiosity, are The Raid and Citadel related? They have identical film posters.
Wow, right down to the building's angle. That's so odd. No, no relation at all, they're not too different in setting though!
Where would you put The Master?
Sorry ACEZ, I'm very bad at keeping up with my notifications here. It's now in place.
Note: for now the list is only ranked to W.E., after which everything else awaits placement. Plan to do this tomorrow and close my 2012 viewing once and for all.
Would you class Snowtown as a 2012 release?
Pardon the awfully long delay in replying; the new list description should answer that question for you!