I didn't have time to watch many films over the past year, so to be clear, this is not an exhaustive list. These are just a few films, you need to check if you have not had the chance yet.
In no particular order...
SAVE THE DATE
I saw last year at the Sundance Festival and thought that the film is a lively entertaining portrait of fall out of love with someone and in love with someone else. I enjoyed the end generally optimistic of the film after seeing countless similar end similar films with ambiguity unearned or cynicism simply.
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN FOREST
A film that forces you to really be an active Viewer, the relationship between the father and the only daughter put a smile on my face. It also makes me think of my family and I'm a sucker for any movie that allow me to do this.
WE ARE LEGION: THE HISTORY OF THE HACKTIVISTS
Anonymous is one of the most exciting bands around. They will be in the history books. Or anything that replaces the history books.
ARGO
While there is nothing really too setting or "auteurish» about Ben Affleck's directing style, I liked his Gone Baby Gone and in Argo, it is quite clear that it holds a master more and more trade. Drama, humor, tension and odd tonal variations = my kind of movie. Thus, the supporting roles are spot - it.
THE CAPTAIN
Honestly, this movie was pretty boring, and I was never the biggest fan of P.T. Anderson. But the performance of Joaquin Phoenix only has kept me waiting to see what would happen in a movie without a lot of traditional land.
SKYFALL
I had not seen one of the most recent films Bond to it, so it was good to see a 007 who fights with his fists. And his fight was not the struggle of type I-know-30-styles-of-martial-arts; It was just fight, which, even if less effective, is probably more manly. And Javier Bardem is impressive as a villain. I wonder who would win in a diabolical force test: Silva or making of No Country for Old Men?
THE AVENGERS
It is crazy to think that iron man is only 5'8?.
GIVE UP TOMORROW
A powerful film about a great injustice in the Philippines. I had a visceral reaction during and after seeing it, and I was sincerely moved by the staging of this duo of storytelling and pure dedication to the cause.
I'M A GHOST
My friend (and Member NFS) H.P. Mendoza directed this film. I'm not a film of horror or scary movie guy, but I liked the simplicity of his films in this one. He shook a really rich and compelling narrative in one place and apparently a small number of configurations.
KILL SLOWLY
F ** ck CinemaScore. Marketed as a gangster film, this movie is full of great performances and long dark funny discussions. I was not so in the final scene openly moralizing of Brad Pitt in the bar, but all the rest before that was pure pleasure for me.
Two films, I wish that I had seen in 2012: In the Family and Zero Dark thirty.
What's on your list?
Patrick is a filmmaker and a fan of Golden State Warriors living in Los Angeles. He is also a cofounder of the National Film Society. Follow him on Twitter: @PatrickEpino.
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