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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.
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #40. Laurent Cantet’s Foxfire
It'll be a great 2012 for fans of the Palme d'Or winning director Laurent Cantet, as he explores both Havana (La Fuente) with his Sunday piece in 7 Days and with this English language first. With The Class, the filmmaker certainly felt at ease working with teens, and something tells me that this 50's piece will be just as poignant.
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #41. Cate Shortland’s Lore
It's been a long, very long eight years since she dropped Somersault upon art-house patrons. Once again employing the unknown young actress in the lead, this multi-territory co-production is a heftier and I don't think will have any resemblance to her 2004 debut (I recall a more gloomy, low budget aesthetic) this could make for a potentially engrossing watch with young leads surviving WW2.
