A revista americana Film Comment, criada pela Film Society of Lincoln Center, divulgou recentemente as suas listas de melhores filmes do ano de 2012. Nessas duas listas há dois filmes portugueses, em posições bastante confortáveis: “Tabu”, de Miguel Gomes, em 11º lugar no Top 50 de Melhores Filmes de 2012 e “O Gebo e a Sombra”, de Manoel de Oliveira, ficou em 6º lugar no Top 50 de Filmes de 2012 sem distribuição nos EUA. Portugal tem ainda outro filme, na posição 24 da segunda lista, “Reconversão”, de Thom Andersen, uma encomenda do 20º Curtas Vila do Conde. Na primeira lista as três preferências cinematográficas são “Holy Motors”, “The Master” e “Moonrise Kingdom”, enquanto que na segunda lista, são “Our Children”, “Memories Look at Me” e “First Cousin Once Removed”.
Top 50 de Melhores Filmes de 2012:
- Holy Motors, de Leos Carax
- The Master, de Paul Thomas Anderson
- Moonrise Kingdom, de Wes Anderson
- This Is Not a Film, de Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
- Amour, de Michael Haneke
- The Turin Horse, de Béla Tarr
- The Kid With a Bike, de Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, de Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Lincoln, de Steven Spielberg
- Zero Dark Thirty, de Kathryn Bigelow
- Tabu, de Miguel Gomes
- The Deep Blue Sea, de Terence Davies
- Bernie, de Richard Linklater
- Beasts of the Southern Wild, de Benh Zeitlin
- Cosmopolis, de David Cronenberg
- Barbara, de Christian Petzold
- The Loneliest Planet, de Julia Loktev
- Silver Linings Playbook, de David O. Russell
- Oslo, August 31st, de Joachim Trier
- Neighboring Sounds, de Kleber Mendonça Filho
- Django Unchained, de Quentin Tarantino
- Almayer’s Folly, de Chantal Akerman
- Magic Mike, de Steven Soderbergh
- Argo, de Ben Affleck
- Attenberg, de Athina Rachel Tsangari
- The Color Wheel, de Alex Ross Perry
- Rust & Bone, de Jacques Audiard
- Killer Joe, de William Friedkin
- Looper, de Rian Johnson
- Life of Pi, de Ang Lee
- A Man Vanishes, de Shohei Imamura
- Skyfall, de Sam Mendes
- The Gatekeepers, de Dror Moreh
- Elena, de Andrei Zvyagintsev
- Haywire, de Steven Soderbergh
- Damsels in Distress, de Whit Stillman
- Abendland, de Nikolaus Geyrhalter
- Two Years at Sea, de Ben Rivers
- How to Survive a Plague, de David France
- Keep the Lights On, de Ira Sachs
- A Burning Hot Summer, de Philippe Garrel
- Miss Bala, de Gerardo Naranjo
- Footnote, de Joseph Cedar
- Compliance, de Craig Zobel
- Alpes, de Yorgos Lanthimos
- Kill List, de Ben Wheatley
- Farewell, My Queen, de Benoît Jacquot
- In Another Country, de Hong Sang-soo
- The Dark Knight Rises, de Christopher Nolan
- The Day He Arrives, de Hong Sang-soo
Top 50 de Filmes de 2012 sem distribuição nos EUA:
- Our Children, de Joachim Lafosse
- Memories Look at Me, de Song Fang
- First Cousin Once Removed, de Alan Berliner
- When Night Falls, de Ying Liang
- Bwakaw, de Jun Robles Lana
- O Gebo e a Sombra, de Manoel de Oliveira
- differently, Molussia, de Nicolas Rey
- Perret in France and Algeria, de Heinz Emigholz
- The Extravagant Shadows, de David Gatten
- Three Sisters, de Wang Bing
- Dormant Beauty, de Marco Bellocchio
- Far From Afghanistan, de John Gianvito, Travis Wilkerson, Jon Jost, Minda Martin & Soon-Mi Yoo
- Camille Rewinds, de Noémie Lvovsky
- Wadjda, de Haifaa Al-Mansour
- Greatest Hits, de Nicolás Pereda
- small roads, de James Benning
- Everybody in Our Family, de Radu Jude
- Shepard and Dark, de Treva Wurmfeld
- Hannah Arendt, de Margarethe von Trotta
- Araf: Somewhere in Between, de Yesim Ustaoglu
- Thursday Through Sunday, de Dominga Sotomayor
- Goodbye, de Mohammad Rasoulof
- After Lucia, de Michel Franco
- Reconversão, de Thom Andersen
- Kon-Tiki, de Joachim Roenning & Espen Sandberg
- Tiger Tail in Blue, de Frank V. Ross
- Traveling Light, de Gina Telaroli
- Sun Don’t Shine, de Amy Seimetz
- Postcards from the Zoo, de Edwin
- 3, de Pablo Stoll
- The Invisible Ones, de Sebastien Lifshitz
- Everyday, de Michael Winterbottom
- Twilight Portrait, de Angelina Nikonova
- Age is…, de Stephen Dwoskin
- The Strawberry Tree, de Simone Rapisarda
- Here and There, de Antonio Mendez
- Louise Wimmer, de Cyril Mennegun
- Outrage Beyond, de Takeshi Kitano
- Back to Stay, de Milagros Mumenthaler
- The Final Member, de Jonah Bekhor & Zach Math
- Kinshasa Kids, de Marc-Henri Wajnberg
- The War, de James Benning
- Nights with Theodore, de Sébastien Betbeder
- The Minister, de Pierre Schöller
- Celluloid Man, de Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
- Gangs of Wasseypur, de Anurag Kashya
- The Dead Man and Being Happy, de Javier Rebollo
- The Invader, de Nicolas Provost
- Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang, de Laurence Cantet
- Donoma, de Djinn Carrenard
