Film Shapes

A bit late but here are the 10 best films I've seen up to June 30 2012. Again, most of these are repeat viewings, in fact only one is a new(ish) film. So here they are from the top: 1. Blade Runner 2. Casablanca 3. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy 4. There Will Be Blood 5. Delicatessen 6. The Apartment 7. The White Ribbon 8. Some Like It Hot 9. Dr. Strangelove 10. Welcome to Sarajevo All great, unlike the following. Here are the worst 10 up to the middle of the year. (Admittedly, some of these are not terrible, just the ten films I liked the least. A special mention though, for the top of this list - it's possibly in my ten worst films of all time.) 1. Mighty Joe Young 2. Wedding Crashers 3. Young Sherlock Holmes 4. The Spanish Apartment 5. Me and Orson Welles 6. The Iron Giant 7. The Merchant of Venice 8. Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol 9. A Little Romance 10. The Wings of the Dove

UPDATE : June 1st Michael Haneke has won the Palme d'Or for Amour. This is his second Palme in 4 years after The White Ribbon in 2009. Both times Jacques Audiard has missed out, though this year Rust and Bone was completely overlooked whereas in 2009, Un Prophete at least took the Grand Prix, ostensibly the runners-up prize. Here are the winners in the main categories. I'm pretty chuffed for Mads Mikkelsen (he won best actor for The Hunt ). I first noticed him in a pretty good Danish police show called Unit One . He's since appeared in some average Hollywood films but he made a class villain in Casino Royale , scratching Daniel Craig's nuts. I reckon he's one of the most intense actors rocking the screens these days. It looks like a pretty good year for official entries at Cannes. The stand-out for me is the new Jacques Audiard film Rust and Bone with Marion Cotillard. One of my favourite directors AND possibly my favourite actress working rig...