Il meglio del 2012 – Daniel Kasman

Editor-in-chief, MUBI – Brooklyn

Napoléon
di Abel Gance (Francia/1927)
(nella versione di 950 minuti a cura di Kevin Brownlow (2012)

…to represent the retrospective cinema I saw this year, including Benning, Brakhage, Carpenter, Epstein, German, Hitchcock, Markopoulos, Rousseau, Rouch, Ulmer, Wellman, Zulawski and all the individual films that were so special.

Ai to makoto
Titolo internazionale: For Love’s Sake
di Takashi Miike
(Giappone/2012)

…to represent the new genre cinema I saw this year, including MOTORWAY, FLIGHT, GANGS OF WASSEYPUR, MAGIC MIKE, PASSION, RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION 3D, and UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: DAY OF RECKONING.

Autrement, la Molussie
Titolo internazionale: Anders, Molussien
di Nicolas Rey
(Francia/2012)

…to represent the long form avant-garde work I saw this year, including THE EXTRAVAGANT SHADOWS, IN THE STONE HOUSE, LEVIATHAN, and a Nervous Magic Lantern show.

Never A Foot Too Far, Even
di Daïchi Saïto
(Canada/2012)

…to representing the short form avant-garde work I saw this year, including AUGUST AND AFTER, DEPARTURE, IN THE STONE HOUSE, THE MAN PHONING MUM, MONUMENT FILM, ON SPEC, ORPHEUS (OUTTAKES), POINT DE GAZE, SAUDADE, and VIEW FROM ACROPOLIS.

San zimei
Titolo internazionale: Three Sisters
Titolo italiano: Tre sorelle
di Wang Bing
(Francia-Hong Kong/2012)

…to represent the art house cinema I saw this year, including 11/25 THE DAY MISHIMA CHOSE HIS FATE, DORMANT BEAUTY, BARBARA, THE DEEP BLUE SEA, GEBO AND TEH SHADOWS, JAI BHIM COMRADE, NIGHT ACROSS THE STREET, PARADISE: LOVE, PERRET IN FRANCE AND ALGERIA, STUDENT, THE UNSPEAKABLE ACT, VIOLA, and YOU AIN’T SEEN NOTHIN’ YET.