2012 in Films: One Year, 365 Days and 617 New-To-Me Films
In 2010 I watched 517 new-to-me films, last year I watched a whopping 1,117 new-to-me films and this year my new-to-me total comes to 617. I did a pretty great round-up of my year over on my 3rd Anniversary post for the site, so I’m not going to repeat any of that and you can see month-to-month breakdowns of my new-to-me watching here. You can also see my favorite 2012 films here. After the cut, I’ll go through a few highlights of my viewing this year and share with you the one film that topped all of my viewing this year.
The main reason my viewing tapered off this year was a little thing I like to call Grad School. Grad School takes a lot of your time, my friends. It really does. Also, I got a part-time job at an art house movie theater. While that allowed me to see a lot of films in theaters for free, it also took a lot of my free time. Regardless, I think I did a pretty good job watching films this year. I also did a lot more rewatching of films this year than I did last year. I think it’s important to mix new-to-me watching with revisiting old favorites (or even sometimes watching films you used to hate, because you never know if you;ll change your mind!)
This is what a year’s worth a movie tickets looks like. Quite a few of the movies I saw in theaters I saw at film festivals and thus I don’t have tickets for them. But I think you get a pretty good picture of what my life is all about from this picture. I also watched a lot of films on streaming Netflix. They’ve added a lot of great classics and I got a Blu-ray player that streams the films straight to my television, so it’s almost like I have TCM (only, I still miss Robert Osborne).
Here are my press passes for the festivals I went to this year. God I love going to film festivals. They are crazy and they are exhausting, but they are the best thing in the world. If you’ve never gone to a film festival, I highly recommend that you go to one. And if you are a classic film aficionado like me, you owe it to yourself to get your butt down to Hollywood for the TCM Film Festival, because it will be the greatest weekend you will ever have.
So I made one movie watching New Year’s resolution last year and that was to watch more world cinema. So I started out strong in 2012 with a French movie and a Spanish movie and then I started watching a film with Marcello Mastroianni and I got hooked on Italian cinema and I’m afraid I never left that country. I wound up watching seven Michelangelo Antonioni films, five Marcello Mastroianni films and about twenty Italian films altogether. I did watch some films from other countries; France (as always), Germany, Japan, Kazakhstan and a few other places. So I guess I didn’t fail altogether, but I definitely need to try harder in this coming year to watch more world cinema.
I completed several director filmographies last year. This year the only filmography I know I completed for sure was Elia Kazan. He’s definitely one of my favorite directors. I’ve got his autobiography and dammit I’m gonna finish reading it this year. This year’s resolution ties in with last years; I’ve got a handful of filmographies I want to try to finish off: Tarkovsky (believe it or not, I’ve never seen any of his films!), Kubrick (I’ve only got one left! and I had all last year to watch it and I didn’t because I suck), Bogdanovich, Antonioni and Fellini. Then there are a few directors whose filmographies I probably won’t finish off, but I want to delve into: Kurosawa, Ozu ,Fassbinder (not to be confused with the actor), Varda and Sayles. I also want to try to finish watching all of the available Best Picture nominees; I’ve only got 67 left (out of 496).
Which brings me to this year’s list:
- (January) Les yeux sans visage (Eyes Without A Face)
- El ángel exterminador (The Exterminating Angel)
- Remember?
- Killer of Sheep
- A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
- Shadows (1959)
- The Steel Trap
- L’année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad)
- Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
- That Uncertain Feeling
- Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
- Monterey Pop
- A Letter to Elia
- Rachel and the Stranger
- Le notti di Cabiria (Nights of Cabiria)
- The Left Handed Gun
- Wild River
- Tōkyō Monogatari (Tokyo Story)
- It Happened at the World’s Fair
- Thais (1916)
- Ballet mécanique
- The Musketeers of Pig Alley
- Knight Without Armour
- Nevada Smith
- Rapsodia Satanica
- Mitt liv som hund (My Life As A Dog)
- Hollywood Hotel
- Varsity Show
- Barefoot in the Park
- Alice Cooper’s Welcome To My Nightmare
- Le Amiche (The Girlfriends)
- Design For Living
- The Fastest Gun Alive
- Dear Wendy
- Mickey One
- Performance
- Pariah
- Stars and Bars
- The Iron Lady
- The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011)
- Tall Story
- The House on Telegraph Hill (film noir festival)
- Afraid To Talk aka Merry-Go-Round (film noir festival)
- Okay America aka The Penalty of Fame (film noir festival)
- The Killers (1964) (film noir festival)
- Point Blank (film noir festival)
- Bedelia (film noir festival)
- The Money Trap (film noir festival)
- “Sciuscià” (Ragazzi) (Shoeshine)
- The Good Humor Man (film noir festival)
- House of Bamboo (film noir festival)
- Underworld, U.S.A. (film noir festival)
- Naked Alibi (film noir festival)
- Pickup (film noir festival)
- The Breaking Point (film noir festival)
- Three Strangers (film noir festival)
- Road House Nights (film noir festival)
- The Maltese Falcon (1931) (film noir festival)
- Mr. Dynamite (film noir festival)
- Matrimonio all’italiana
- Macao
- (February) The Moderns
- My Wife’s Relations
- Kung Fu Panda
- Kung Fu Panda 2
- Ossessione
- Under the Volcano
- Alexander’s Ragtime Band
- Look Back In Anger
- Day of the Evil Gun
- La città delle donne (City of Women)
- Garbo Talks
- Átame! (Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!)
- Merrily We Go To Hell
- Bellissima
- Pickpocket
- American Gigolo
- Your Good Friend
- I’m Gonna Git You Sucka
- Pootie Tang
- CB4
- La double vie de Véronique
- The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
- Henry & June
- The Violent Men
- L’avventura
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
- Ultimo tango a Parigi (Last Tango In Paris)
- The Common Law
- Dead In The Room
- Off Season
- Circumstance
- Copie conforme (Certified Copy)
- Thirteen Women
- Margaret (2011)
- Pina
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- The Butcher Boy (1917)
- The Rough House (1917)
- Brand Upon the Brain! A Remembrance in 12 Chapters
- You Can’t Get Away With Murder
- Paths of Glory
- Le Technicien (The Technician)
- Mr. Stache
- The Man In Possession (1931)
- Rhapsody In Blue (1945)
- I soliti ignoti (aka Big Deal on Madonna Street)
- His Wedding Night
- Good Night, Nurse!
- Richard III (1995)
- So This Is College
- A Matter of Life and Death (aka Stairway to Heaven)
- The Music Lovers
- (March) Lovefield
- Malpractice
- The Crush (2009)
- Paisá
- Umberto D.
- Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson. The Murder of Lord Waterbrook
- Lust For Gold
- A Woman Under the Influence
- Compulsion
- The Hunger (1983)
- Velvet Goldmine
- Welcome To L.A.
- The French Doors
- A Way Out
- The Black Hole
- Monoculture
- Salmon Fishing In The Yemen
- Freeway
- Proshchai, Gulsary! (Goodbye, Gulsary!)
- The Goonies
- Oh, Doctor!
- The Bell Boy
- Back Stage
- The Hayseed
- The Garage
- Battle Beyond the Stars
- Novecento aka 1900
- La délicatesse (Delicacy)
- A Film Johnnie
- Daydreams (1922)
- 21 Jump Street
- Jeux Interdits (Forbidden Games)
- Nacht
- Delicatessen
- Napoléon (1927)
- Thru
- Checkmate (2009)
- …tick…tick…tick…
- The Slams
- Time For Tulips
- The Lunch Date
- The Deep Blue Sea (2011)
- Desirée
- Score
- Berkeley Square
- La Notte
- (April) Cowboy
- Private Lives
- War Nurse
- Fatty’s Faithful Fido
- Fatty’s Tintype Tangle
- The Sky’s the Limit
- Living In A Big Way
- New Boy (2008)
- Shit Hollywood Assistants Say
- Staff Meeting Video: The Movie
- Un condamné à mort s’est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (A Man Escaped)
- Faces
- Seance on a Wet Afternoon
- History Is Made At Night (1937)
- La cité des enfants perdus (The City of Lost Children)
- Alice in den Städten (Alice in the Cities)
- My Winnipeg
- The Saddest Music in the World
- Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
- Destry Rides Again
- Elia Kazan: A Director’s Journey
- The Jerk
- Zardoz
- Barton Fink
- Our Dancing Daughters (TCM film festival)
- Nothing Sacred (TCM film festival)
- Cry Danger (TCM film festival)
- Three Dimensional Murder (TCM film festival)
- Musical Memories (TCM film festival)
- Working For Peanuts (TCM film festival)
- Parade of Attraction (TCM film festival)
- Motor Rhythm (TCM film festival)
- Arrival of a Train 3D (TCM film festival)
- Lumber Jack-Rabbit (TCM film festival)
- Parade of Attraction II (TCM film festival)
- Parade of Attraction III (TCM film festival)
- Falling In Love Again (2003) (TCM film festival)
- The Magic Cauldron (TCM film festival)
- Oracle of Delphi (TCM film festival)
- Mysterious Retort (TCM film festival)
- Daffy’s Rhapsody (TCM film festival)
- Call Her Savage (TCM film festival)
- The Thief of Bagdad (1924) (TCM film festival)
- Il deserto rosso (Red Desert)
- Zabriskie Point
- Overnight, A Rose
- The Fourth Dimension (2012) (SF International Film Festival)
- Our Town
- Westward The Women
- Harlan County, USA (SF International Film Festival)
- Robot & Frank (SF International Film Festival)
- La terre outragée (Land of Oblivion) (SF International Film Festival)
- Miller’s Crossing
- L’ordre et la morale (Rebellion) (SF International Film Festival)
- O som ao redor (Neighboring Sounds) (SF International Film Festival)
- Twixt (SF International Film Festival)
- Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel (SF International Film Festival)
- Where Do We Go Now? (SF International Film Festival)
- Poulet aux prunes (Chicken With Plums) (SF International Film Festival)
- (May) Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo? (Who Are You, Polly Magoo?)
- Hysteria
- Sound of My Voice
- A Boy and His Dog
- S.O.B.
- Skin Deep
- Magnolia
- Tournée (On Tour)
- Dark Shadows
- The Gift
- Pitiless
- Outsider
- Dharavi Diary
- Luminous
- Until We Meet Again
- Gray Parade
- Dilemma
- Three Swords and A Wedding
- Desolate
- Midnight Secret
- Dinner For Four
- Flapjack
- Exile
- Straight To Hell
- Walker
- “About Last Night…”
- Brakkvann (Brackish Water)
- Hush. . .Hush, Sweet Charlotte
- La chinoise
- Born to Love
- The Iranian Dream
- Virgin of the Candles
- The Avengers (2012)
- No Way Out (1950)
- Baisers volés (Stolen Kisses)
- Domicile conjugal (Bed and Board)
- L’amour en fuite (Love on the Run)
- Hour of the Gun
- Ray
- The Thin Blue Line
- Les enfants du paradis (Children of Paradise)
- Brewster McCloud
- Kes
- The Hunger Games
- Barfly
- Darling, How Could You!
- The Warriors
- Keyhole
- Scent of a Woman
- The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
- Pinky
- The Visitors (1972)
- Heaven Can Wait (1943)
- Written on the Wind
- The Tarnished Angels
- Babe: Pig in the City
- (June) Moonrise Kingdom
- Snow White and the Huntsman
- Man on a Tightrope
- Yellow Sky
- Young and Innocent (aka The Girl Was Young)
- Boogie Nights
- The Awakening (1980)
- The Journey (1959)
- Breezy
- Come To The Stable
- Sleep, My Love
- The Room
- Joe Kidd
- Prometheus
- The Arrangement
- A Yank in the R.A.F.
- Half a Hero
- The Great Diamond Robbery
- Make Mine Mink
- Inserts
- Parting Glances
- A Bullet For Joey
- Fort Massacre
- Rock of Ages
- The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
- Whale Rider
- The Endless Summer
- Bel Ami
- Blithe Spirit
- Un amour de jeunesse (Goodbye First Love)
- The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
- The Iron Horse
- Peeping Tom
- Disclosure
- Tequila Sunrise
- Permanent Midnight
- Cave of Forgotten Dreams
- Salvador
- Love and Other Disasters
- Swimming to Cambodia
- There’s No Business Like Show Business
- Bad Company (1972)
- Blind Date (1987)
- Magic Mike
- (July) To Rome With Love
- Six Degrees of Separation
- Gow the Head Hunter
- The Amazing Spider-Man
- Taps
- Regarding Henry
- Another Country
- Brave
- Beasts of the Southern Wild
- Take This Waltz
- Gregory’s Girl
- The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
- Time Bandits
- Little Toys (SF Silent Film Festival)
- The Love of Pharaoh (SF Silent Film Festival)
- Mantrap (SF Silent Film Festival)
- The Wonderful Lie of Nina Petrovna (SF Silent Film Festival)
- Felix Loses Out (SF Silent Film Festival)
- Felix Trips Thru Toyland (SF Silent Film Festival)
- Felix the Cat Weathers Weather (SF Silent Film Festival)
- Felix the Cat in Blunderland (SF Silent Film Festival)
- Felix in Jungle Bungles (SF Silent Film Festival)
- Felix in Eskimotive (SF Silent Film Festival)
- Felix Flirts with Fate (SF Silent Film Festival)
- The Spanish Dancer (SF Silent Film Festival)
- The Canadian (SF Silent Film Festival)
- South (SF Silent Film Festival)
- Erotikon (SF Silent Film Festival)
- Stella Dallas (1925) (SF Silent Film Festival)
- Crime Does Not Pay: Buried Loot
- Crime Does Not Pay: Alibi Racket
- Crime Does Not Pay: Desert Death
- Crime Does Not Pay: A Thrill For Thelma
- Crime Does Not Pay: Hit and Run Driver
- Crime Does Not Pay: The Perfect Set-Up
- Crime Does Not Pay: Foolproof
- Crime Does Not Pay: Public Pays
- Crime Does Not Pay: Torture Money
- Crime Does Not Pay: It May Happen To You
- Crime Does Not Pay: Soak the Poor
- Crime Does Not Pay: Give Till It Hurts
- Crime Does Not Pay: Behind The Criminal
- Crime Does Not Pay: What Price Safety!
- Crime Does Not Pay: Miracle Money
- Crime Does Not Pay: Come Across
- Crime Does Not Pay: A Criminal Is Born
- Crime Does Not Pay: They’re Always Caught
- Crime Does Not Pay: Think It Over
- Crime Does Not Pay: The Wrong Way Out
- Crime Does Not Pay: Money To Loan
- Crime Does Not Pay: While America Sleeps
- Crime Does Not Pay: Help Wanted
- Crime Does Not Pay: Think First!
- Crime Does Not Pay: Drunk Driving
- Crime Does Not Pay: Pound Foolish
- Crime Does Not Pay: Know Your Money
- Crime Does Not Pay: Jackpot
- Crime Does Not Pay: Women In Hiding
- Crime Does Not Pay: Buyer Beware
- Crime Does Not Pay: Soak The Old
- Crime Does Not Pay: You, The People
- Crime Does Not Pay: Respect The Law
- Crime Does Not Pay: Forbidden Passage
- Crime Does Not Pay: Coffins On Wheels
- Crime Does Not Pay: Sucker List
- Crime Does Not Pay: Don’t Talk
- Crime Does Not Pay: For The Common Defense
- Crime Does Not Pay: Keep ‘Em Sailing
- Crime Does Not Pay: Plan For Destruction
- Crime Does Not Pay: Patrolling the Ether
- Crime Does Not Pay: Easy Life
- Crime Does Not Pay: Dark Shadows
- Crime Does Not Pay: The Fall Guy
- Crime Does Not Pay: The Last Installment
- Crime Does Not Pay: Phantoms, Inc.
- Crime Does Not Pay: A Gun In His Hand
- Crime Does Not Pay: Purity Squad
- Crime Does Not Pay: The Luckiest Guy In The World
- Eyes of the Navy
- Another Language
- Cul-de-sac
- Punch-Drunk Love
- The Dark Knight Rises
- Black Hand
- The Devil Makes Three
- The Coca-Cola Kid
- The Americano
- The Turning Point (1977)
- Jiro Dreams of Sushi
- Mississippi Burning
- Adua e le Compagne (Adua and Her Friends)
- Author! Author!
- Heartburn
- (August) The Landlord
- Damon and Pythias
- Kept Husbands
- Killer Joe
- Woman Chases Man
- Le diable probablement (The Devil, Probably)
- Dynamite (1929)
- Ercole sfida Sansone (Hercules, Samson & Ulysses)
- Heat
- Espionage Agent
- Cattle Drive
- The Intruder aka Shame (1962)
- Hard Eight
- The Men
- The Keep
- 2 Days in New York
- Ambush at Cimarron Pass
- ParaNorman
- The Expendables 2
- The Master
- L’amore in città (Love in the City)
- Forty Guns
- To Live and Die in L.A.
- Moonshine
- Cosmopolis
- Fatty Joins The Force
- A Flirt’s Mistake
- The Knockout (1914)
- The Rounders (1914)
- Leading Lizzie Astray
- Mabel and Fatty’s Wash Day
- Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life
- Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
- Fatty’s New Role
- Choose Me
- People Will Talk
- White Palace
- (September) The Pajama Game
- Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
- Un fiume di dollari aka River of Dollars aka The Hills Run Red
- Mad Dog and Glory
- The Lincoln Lawyer
- Beverly Hills Cop
- Beverly Hills Cop II
- Playing by Heart
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- Passion Fish
- This Happy Breed
- Number Seventeen
- Born to Be Bad (1950)
- A Night in Casablanca
- Unhook the Stars
- Battle Circus
- Gun the Man Down
- Mystic Pizza
- The Vow
- She’s So Lovely
- Intouchables (The Intouchables)
- No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
- Puccini for Beginners
- The Wrath of God (1972)
- Un esercito di cinque uomini (The Five Man Army)
- Run for Cover
- We’re Not Married!
- The Procession
- Steve
- Prodigal
- After-School Special (2011)
- Not Your Time
- sexting
- Friend Request Pending
- Eyewitness
- Hello I Must Be Going
- Barbara (Berlin and Beyond Film Festival)
- Was bleibt (Home For The Weekend) (Berlin and Beyond Film Festival)
- Das Totenschiff (Ship of the Dead) (Berlin and Beyond Film Festival)
- Die Libelle und das Nashorn (The Rhino and the Dragonfly) (Berlin and Beyond Film Festival)
- Faust (2011) (Berlin and Beyond Film Festival)
- Der ganz große Traum (Lessons of a Dream) (Berlin and Beyond Film Festival)
- Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 (Berlin and Beyond Film Festival)
- Der Verdingbub (The Foster Boy) (Berlin and Beyond Film Festival)
- Baikonur (Berlin and Beyond Film Festival)
- Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum) (Berlin and Beyond Film Festival)
- (October) I Don’t Want to Be Born aka The Devil Within Her
- The Monster That Challenged the World
- It! The Terror from Beyond Space
- Frankenweenie (2012)
- Invisible Invaders
- Vampire Circus
- Circus of Horrors
- The Vampire (1957)
- The Vampire’s Ghost
- Theatre of Blood
- Looper
- The Return of Dracula
- Argo
- Creature From The Black Lagoon
- Crucible of Horror
- The Mummy’s Curse
- Tales of Terror
- Vampyr
- The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
- Donovan’s Brain
- The Thing with Two Heads
- Parents
- The House of the Devil
- Tales That Witness Madness
- Frogs
- The Ape
- To the Devil a Daughter
- The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
- The Catman of Paris
- Empire of the Ants
- Cat People (1982)
- The Lady and the Monster
- The Sessions
- Swamp Thing
- The Mummy’s Hand
- The Crater Lake Monster
- Wake In Fright
- Seven Psychopaths
- Pitch Perfect
- Vargtimmen (Hour of the Wolf)
- Son of Frankenstein
- (Noirvember) Railroaded!
- Crime of Passion (1957)
- Moonrise
- Cloud Atlas
- Cage of Evil
- The Big Caper
- Paperman
- Wreck-It Ralph
- Union Station (1950)
- Cry Vengeance
- The Big Night (1960)
- Private Hell 36
- Lincoln
- Rope of Sand
- Lili
- Odds Against Tomorrow
- Plunder Road
- My Gun Is Quick
- The Sound of Fury aka Try and Get Me
- The Depraved (1957)
- The Twilight Sage: Breaking Dawn, Part 2
- The Captive City
- Ruthless
- No Man of Her Own
- The Naked Street
- CHiPS ’99
- The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
- Blonde Ice
- Too Late For Tears
- Life of Pi
- The Hitch-Hiker
- Silver Linings Playbook
- Hollow Triumph (aka The Scar)
- Dark City (1950)
- Sedmikrásky (Daisies)
- The Scarf
- Man-Trap (1961)
- Appointment With Danger
- Anna Karenina (2012)
- Short Cut To Hell
- Foreign Intrigue
- (December) Divorce (1945)
- Bend of the River
- The Lady in Question
- Bernie
- A Farewell to Arms (1932)
- A Smile Wrinkle
- The White Shadow
- Flight
- Slacker
- Great Director
- Chambre 666
- Lone Star
- Can’t Hurry Love
- Chilly Scenes of Winter
- Enchanted April
- Brassed Off
- Any Day Now
- Affliction
- Days of Jesse James
- Holy Motor
- Haywire
- This is Christmas
- Walking and Talking
- De rouille et d’os (Rust & Bone)
- Hitchcock
- Young Buffalo Bill
- Like Crazy
- The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
- Django Unchained
- Les Misérables (2012)
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- Night Train to Munich
- Flirting With Disaster
- The Impossible
- Support Your Local Gunfighter
- Tortilla Soup
- Max Dugan Returns
- Flawless
- 3 Women
- L’eclisse
- The Barefoot Contessa
1880s: 0
1890s: 0
1900s: 4
1910s: 25
1920s: 25
1930s: 67
1940s: 69
1950s: 89
1960s: 50
1970s: 46
1980s: 46
1990s: 40
2000s: 36
2010s: 122
So what was the one film I watched in 2012 that stood out above all others? It was none other than Wim Wender’s non-fiction dream-like film for Pina Bausch.
I wish I had seen this in 2011, because if I had it would have topped my list for favorite films from that year. As it happens, I didn’t get to see this wonderful film until February. Since then I have seen it in theatres four times. Yes, four times. I plan to watch it every single time I get that chance. If I could live in any film it would be this film. It is just so perfect.
Luckily for all of you, you can buy Pina from the Criterion Collection and you can also stream it on Netflix, but I definitely recommend you watch it in 3D (and I don’t often say that) in a theater if you get the chance. It is the only film I’ve seen where I felt the 3D actually added to the film, rather than distracted from it. I promise, it won’t be like anything else you’ve ever seen.
That was 2012 in films for me; I look forward to another year filled with cinema and I hope all of you had a great 2012 and have an even better year ahead!
Posted on January 1, 2013, in 2012 in Films and tagged Elia Kazan, Marcello Mastroi, Michelangelo Antonioni, Pina, Wim Wenders. Bookmark the permalink. 5 Comments.
aw- Pina was on Comcast OnDemand until yesterday, but my family kept on taking up the TV. Anyways, I hope I can see it on the big screen, in 3D, one day.
Looks like you had a fine movie-watching year!
I recommend that, after Kurosawa, start checking out some works by Masaki Kobayashi. The color horror film “Kaidan” might be a good entry point. And after Ozu, try Kenji Mizoguchi’s films if you haven’t seen some of his work already.
Have a great 2013!
thanks for recommendations. I definitely need to see more Japanese cinema. and I hope you get to see Pina on the big screen someday soon. it’s an unbelievable experience.
Oh, Antonioni. I remember watching several of his films (in, I believe, summer 2011). I started because I love Gabriele Ferzetti. BUT OH MY GOSH. The pain.
Anyway, this was a super-interesting posts. I always love reading your recap posts — they make me want to watch more movies (and get back to blogging regularly).
I hope your 2013 is lovely!
you too Millie! I love your love of largely forgotten matinee idols and television stars of yore!
Fabulous list – unlike last year – I had seen very few of the films. I am glad you enjoyed yourself. I agree – I would LUV to go to a film festival.