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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.
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #8. Antonio Campos’ Simon Killer
Now that devoted year of Martha Marcy May Marlene is complete, 2012 will see Borderline focus on what we expect will be an equally and exquisitely jarring sophomore follow up to Campos distinguished debut, Afterschool. The versatile Brady Corbet takes on the ballsy lead part, the excellent Daniel Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans offer the score -- described as a neonoir thriller, this soul searching in a part of Paris that is probably not mentioned in your Let's Go Guidebook will be among the most talked about films showing up in Park City.
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #9. Derek Cianfrance’s Place Beyond the Plains
Thank god we don't have to wait twelve years between films. Derek Cianfrance's second film was my top pick of 2010. After his critically lauded sophomore film tomahawk chopped critics from Sundance to Cannes to TIFF, Blue Valentine producers wasted no time in backing his next project: a drama about family and motorcycles? It features Ryan Gosling (his career best was with Cianfrance) and its got tech folks such as Cinematographer Sean Bobbitt (Shame) and Production Designer specialist Inbal Weinberg.
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #10. Jacques Audiard’s Rust and Bone
The naughts were good to us with Jacques Audiard - he handed us back to back to back cinematic gems in Sur mes lèvres (2001), The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005) and Special Jury Prize winning A Prophet (2009). Audiard is arguably among the best French filmmakers in the biz, so how will he fare when he dabbles a bit more in CGI and with a spiked production budget north of 20 million? And will Oscar-winning lead actress in Cotillard knock it out of the park like Emmanuelle Devos did in Sur mes lèvres? We don't expect him to compromise on his trademark marriage of style and suspense.
