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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #93. Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby
Here are the list of pros: the roaring 20s, classic novel, great cast, award season conflicts (Dicaprio will go head to head again with his performance in Django Unchained), holiday release date, bootleg and a filmmaker in dire need of a career boost especially after the colossal bore known as Australia.
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #94. The Gangster Squad
Among the very few studio projects on this top 100 list, we're picking this one for the obvious dream cast (Gosling, Penn, Brolin) and the era that it is set in (less than a decade before L.A. Confidential). Our guys with guns guilty pleasure of the year is helmed by Ruben Fleischer - this is his third outing after Zomebieland and 30 Minutes or Less.
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #95. David O. Russell’s The Silver Linings Playbook
Honestly we're a bit peeved by the entire Nailed situation, but if this comedy contains some of the humor elements we've previously enjoyed from O. Russell's dark comedies such as Flirting with Disaster and I Heart Huckabees then we are good to go.
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #96. Hal Hartley’s Meanwhile
Whit Stillman makes a new film. Check. Hal Hartley is moments away from completing his first (feature) film since Fay Grim. Check. It's almost fitting that U.S indie icons Stillman and Hartley will release their films this year, and while Hartley's film output is more vast, I'd be curious to know production dollar difference there is between his debut 1989 film, The Unbelievable Truth and this comedy partially financed via Kickstarter. This looks and sounds funny.
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #97. Sally Potter’s Bomb
Two decades since she her magnificent debut (Orlando), Potter has fallen off the radar with what panned out to be further films experimenting with the form. We haven't cared much for her recent slate, but with a Ban the Bomb movement and the sexual revolution serving as the backdrop, this counterculture item with a possible Lolita situation germinating makes this a rare Sally Potter film to look forward to.
