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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #35. Peter Strickland’s Berberian Sound Studio
The Silver Bear (2009 Berlin Film Festival) and The European Film Academy's Discovery of the Year award winning Katalin Varga announced that the arrival of helmer Peter Strickland. I have a penchant for films about the filmmaking process and an important factoid worth mentioning is that Strickland has a background in sound effect/recording profession so this should be of interest twofold.
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #36. Bruno Dumont’s La Créatrice
Unlike Gérard Depardieu, I can only picture a select few A-level French actresses who would be up to the challenge of working with someone such as Bruno Dumont and his emotionally devastating texts. It'll be a first for him (he usually works with non-pros) and in an odd karma alignment, Binoche is playing the same role that Isabelle Adjani played in 1988's titular Camille Claudel. Adjani's co-star was Depardieu. Binoche will kick butt.
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #37. Untitled Hong Sang-soo Project
2012 will be known as the year that Isabelle Huppert experimented with Asian auteur filmmakers and we're more curious about a potential relationship drama with Hong Sang-soo than the hostage Berlin preemed Captured by Brillante Mendoza.
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #38. Todd Rohal’s Scoutmasters
Perhaps the least known member of the North Carolina club (David Gordon Green, Jeff Nichols, Craig Zobel, Jody Hill, DP Tim Orr, Aaron Katz and Ramin Bahrani) this is the year that Todd Rohal breaks out beyond the faithful few who've been tracking Rohal's genius since The Guatemalan Handshake, and more recently, the Sundance/SXSW preemed The Catechism Cataclysm (here is our review). We like this helmer's offbeat, unique humor and wouldn't be surprised if Patton Oswalt and Johnny Knoxville were challenged by the material -- which was part of the Sundance's 2009 Screenwriting Lab.
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #39. Andrew Dosunmu’s Ma’ George
Dosunmu has been workshopping this project since 2005 (he was invited to the Sundance labs with it) but got delayed (here is our sit-down with the Dosunmu) and then the filmmaker with a photography background and a true knack for capturing city life made the indie budgeted gem Restless City (released on the festival circuit at fests such as Sundance, AFi Fest) and here re-teams with the excellent DP Bradford Young for a project that includes the beautiful Yaya DaCosta and regular Jim Jarmusch contributor, Isaach De Bankolé. We're banking an intimate, immigrant experience tale that is textured and stylized.
