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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #4. Terrence Malick’s The Burial
With a cast and tech crew (Emmanuel Lubezki, Jack Fisk) worth boasting about, I'm betting this will be the least ambiguous film in Malick's slender, four-decade spanning filmography.
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #5. Something in the Air (Après mai)
With Assayas currently on a roll with Carlos and Summer Hours, we imagine this coming-of-age project as in the vein of The Dreamers with perhaps some biographical elements embedded in the protagonist (first time actor Clement Metaye plus the co-lead is Lola Créton who is the latest icon in French auteur cinema as she was recently seen in Catherine Breillat's Bluebird and in Assayas' significant other Mia Hansen-Løve's Goodbye First Love.
Indie Stalwarts Lynette Howell and Jamie Patricof Form New Prod Co. Electric City
Collectively they've helped launch the careers of helmers we hold dear to our cinephilic hearts in Ryan Fleck and Derek Cianfrance. They've contributed to the burgeoning careers of talented behind the scenes folk such as Cinematographer Andrij Parekh, Art Director Inbal Weinberg and Costume Designer Erin Benach. And Ryan Gosling has been the biggest winner on the three times that Patricof and Howell (and producer Alex Orlovsky) got together for a shared common goal.
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #6. Wong Kar-Wai’s The Grandmasters
To give you an idea of how long we've been waiting, we've had this on our Most Anticipated lists for 2010 and 2011. The trailer was enough to maintain its position among the Most Anticipated elite and we're confident this won't go the 2046 (five years in editing) route.
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #7. Abbas Kiarostami’s Like Someone in Love
Currently in the "Woody Allen phase" of his career (unlike Woody, he left his homeland for more than pure economics) Abbas Kiarostami delivered in his third decade of work, an invigorating, intellectually stimulating piece of cinema with another career high with in Certified Copy. What I'm most curious about is how the kindness, civility and humanity in a post Tsunami Japan might be further illuminated/embedded in this work.
