In anticipation of my Best of 2012 list, which will be up in the next few days after I catch up with some of those lingering blind spots, I have compiled a Top 50 list of my favorite first-time viewings of older films in 2012 (the criteria was anything before 2011). Obviously, this list indicates the vast and embarrassing quantity of completely accessible works that I hadn't seen until this year, but I also hope it illuminates some less traveled regions of film history. Note: click the title of each film and it will transport you to my respective thoughts on it. 1. Secret History of the Dividing Line: A True Account in Nine Parts (First Four/Gatten/USA/1999-2004)
2. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick/UK/1975)
3. We Won’t Grow Old Together (Pialat/France/1972)
4. L’Argent (Bresson/France/1983)
5. Safe (Haynes/USA/1995)
6. The Awful Truth (McCarey/USA/1937)
7. Street of Crocodiles (Short/Quay Bros./USA/1987)
8. Zodiac (Fincher/USA/2007)
9. What's Up, Doc? (Bogdanovich/USA/1972)
10. Bigger Than Life (Ray/USA/1956)
11. Boy Meets Girl (Carax/France/1984)
12. My Night at Maud’s (Rohmer/France/1969)
13. The Shout (Skolimowski/Poland/1978)
14. I Walked With a Zombie (Tourneur/USA/1943)
15. How The West Was Won (Ford/Hathaway/USA/1962)
16. Sarabande (Short/Dorsky/USA/2008)
17. Bluebeard (Breillat/France/2009)
18. The Palm Beach Story (Sturges/USA/1942)
19. The Passion of Anna (Bergman/Sweden/1969)
20. The Wedding March (Von Stroheim/USA/1928)
21. Metropolitan (Stillman/USA/1990)
22. Jabberwocky (Short/Svankmajer/Czechoslovakia/1971)
23. Film Socialisme (Godard/France/2010)
24. The Girlfriend Experience (Soderbergh/USA/2009)
25. Bruce McClure Performance at Brattle Theater (McClure/USA/2011)
26. His Girl Friday (Hawks/USA/1940)
27. Scenes from a Marriage (1st Half & 2nd Half) (TV Series/Bergman/Sweden/1973)
28. Ring (Short/Todd/USA/2007)
29. Out of Sight (Soderbergh/USA/1998)
30. Love in the Afternoon (Rohmer/USA/1972)
31. The Big Chill (Kasdan/USA/1983)
32. The Lady Eve (Sturges/USA/1941)
33. Skinflick (Short/Fleisch/Germany/2002)
34. One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich (Marker/France/1999)
35. Four Nights of a Dreamer (Bresson/France/1971)
36. The Freethinker (Watkins/UK/1994)
37. The White Rose (Short/Conner/USA/1967)
38. Silent Mountains, Singing Oceans, and Slivers of Time: Six Films by David Gatten (Shorts Program/Gatten/USA/1998-2010)
39. The Wind Will Carry Us (Kiarostami/Iran/1999)
40. The Great Madcap (Bunuel/Spain/1949)
41. Design for Living (Lubitsch/USA/1933)
42. Grand Illusion (Renoir/France/1937)
43. New York Portrait: Chapter 1 (Short/Hutton/USA/1979)
44. The Last Bolshevik (Marker/France/1993)
45. Flirting with Disaster (Russell/USA/1996)
46. Saraband (Bergman/Sweden/2008)
47. Passage à l'acte and Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (Shorts/Arnold/USA/1993 & 1998)
48. The Philadelphia Story (Cukor/USA/1940)
49. Tokyo Sonata (Kurosawa/Japan/2008)
50. Wedlock House: An Intercourse (Brakhage/USA/1959)
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