Film Shapes

Here are the ten best films that I watched in 2012. This follows on from the mid-year report and as you'll note, there have only been a few changes from that list (see pic below for one example). Once again, this list is made up of films that I watched in the past year - new or old, first time viewings or repeats. In the future I may settle on only first time viewings. 1. Blade Runner 2. Casablanca 3. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy 4. There Will Be Blood 5. Delicatessen 6. Vertical Ray of the Sun 7. The Descendants 8. The Apartment 9. The White Ribbon 10. Rise of the Planet of the Apes And here are the duds. 1. Mighty Joe Young 2. I Come with the Rain 3. Invictus 4. Wedding Crashers 5. John Carter 6. A Christmas Carol (2009) 7. Young Sherlock Holmes 8. The Spanish Apartment 9. Me and Orson Welles 10. The Iron Giant

Like I did at the half-way point of the year, I've chosen the best ten films I have seen since July. Again, some are old but a couple are new releases. Here they are in a top-down fashion: 1. Yojimbo 2. Taxi Driver 3. Secrets and Lies 4. Don't Look Now 5. Inception 6. A Separation 7. Point Blank (A Bout Portant) 8. Seven Samurai 9. Rise of the Planet of the Apes 10. Pan's Labyrinth And for balance, the bilge and dross..... 1. In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale 2. Sucker Punch 3. Sliding Doors 4. Blitz 5. A.I. 6. Escape from New York 7. Shall We Dance? 8. Finding Forrester 9. Perfect Blue 10. Limitless