Sunday, February 24, 2013

FAVORITE FILMS OF 2012

#1: KOTOKO


#2: HIMIZU



#3: FROM UP ON POPPY HILL



#4: THE GREY



#5: A LETTER TO MOMO



#6: RIVER



#7: THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER



#8: TWO YEARS AT SEA



#9: SOUND OF MY VOICE



#10: PORFIRIO






FAVORITE DOCUMENTARIES OF 2012


#1: WHORE'S GLORY


#2: THE FORGOTTEN SPACE



#3: GIRL MODEL



#4: 5 BROKEN CAMERAS



#5: ROOM 237



#6: UPRISING: HIP-HOP AND THE LA RIOTS



#7: INDIE GAME: THE MOVIE



#8: THIS IS NOT A FILM



#9: THE HOUSE I LIVE IN



#10: UNDEFEATED





FULL LIST OF WATCHED FILMS

********** 10 Stars
5 Broken Cameras
Bones Brigade: An Autobiography
Chimpanzee
Coming Attractions
From Up on Poppy Hill
The Forgotten Space
Girl Model
The Grey
Himizu
The House I Live In
Indie Game: The Movie
Kotoko
A Letter to Momo
On Death Row
River
Room 237
This Is Not a Film
Undefeated
Uprising: Hip Hop and the LA Riots
Whores' Glory
********* 9 Stars
56 Up
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
The American Scream
Animal Beauty
Berberian Sound Studio
Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story
Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony
Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel
Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters
God Bless America
Headshot
The Imposter
It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve: Masao Adachi

Leafie, a Hen Into the Wild
Love & Loathing & Lulu & Ayano
Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
My Heart Swims in Blood
ParaNorman
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Porfirio
The Redemption of General Butt Naked
Searching for Sugar Man
Side by Side
Sound of My Voice
Surviving Progress
Two Years at Sea
******** 8 Stars
Antiviral
Argo
Ashes
Beasts of the Southern Wild
The Beat Hotel
Beyond the Hills
Broken
Detropia
Gerhard Richter - Painting
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
How to Survive a Plague
In Another Country
Jess + Moss
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Last Days Here
Laurence Anyways
Le Tableau
Little Birds
The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby
Motorway
OC87: The Obsessive Compulsive, Major Depression, Bipolar, Asperger's Movie
Pink Ribbons, Inc.
Samsara
Snow on Tha Bluff
Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap
Starry Starry Night
Swimmer
Tropicália
Varesesaare Venelased
Vigilante Vigilante: The Battle for Expression
Waiting for Lightning
West of Memphis
******* 7 Stars
All Ages: The Boston Hardcore Film
Attenberg
Beyond the Black Rainbow
Bully
The Color Wheel
Dad Made Dirty Movies
The Day He Arrives
Doomsday Book
Four Horsemen
Fragments of Dissolution
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
Girl Walk: All Day
Holy Motors
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
Images of Women or the Social Corset
Into the Fire
The Invisible War
Jack Reacher
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
Keyhole
Killer Joe
Kubrick's Odyssey II: Beyond the Infinite Secrets Hidden in the Films of Stanley Kubrick
Magic Tree House
Marley
The Master
Miss Representation
The Monitor
No
Pieta
Pretty Sweet
Sexy Baby
Tabu
We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists
Wreck-It Ralph
Zarafa
****** 6 Stars
[REC]³ Génesis
Ace Attorney
Ai to Makoto
Alps
Chained
Dark Horse
Excision
Frankenweenie
Fun Size
Ginger & Rosa
Jingle & Bell's Christmas Star
La Luna
The Lorax
Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream
Payback
Prometheus
Promised Land
ReGeneration
Rurouni Kenshin
Screaming in High Heels: The Rise & Fall of the Scream Queen Era
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Seven Minutes in the Warsaw Ghetto
Sister
The Tall Man
Twixt
Where Soldiers Come From

***** 5 Stars
The ABCs of Death
The Assassins
Brave
The Dark Knight Rises
Diaz: Don't Clean Up This Blood
Electrick Children
The Fourth Dimension
The Hunger Games
I Am Bruce Lee
Life of Pi
Marfa Girl
Mekong Hotel
Milos Forman, un outsider à Hollywood
Mirror Mirror
On the Road
Paperman
The Punk Syndrome
Red Hook Summer
Silver Linings Playbook
Tom and Jerry: Robin Hood and His Merry Mouse
War Witch
**** 4 Stars
Akkyz
Cabin in the Woods
Cloud Atlas
Dictado
Hick
House at the End of the Street
How to Sell a Banksy
Jack and Diane
Killing Them Softly
Livide
The Raid: Redemption
Secret of the Wings
The Terrorists

*** 3 Stars
Cold Sweat
Cosmopolis
Isn't Anyone Alive?
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
The Kick
Rise of the Guardians
** 2 Stars
This Girl Is Bad-Ass!!

* 1 Stars
Ice Age: Continental Drift
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

Friday, December 28, 2012

FAVORITE ALBUMS OF 2012

#1

Jupiter - Juicy Lucy

#2

Igorrr - Hallelujah

#3

Para One - Passion

#4

Squarepusher - Ufabulum

#5

The Flashbulb - Hardscrabble

#6

S_W_Z_K - S_W_Z_K

#7

Belbury Poly - The Belbury Tales
  
#8

Starkey - Orbits 

#9

EPROM - Metahuman

#10

Ruby My Dear - Remains of Shapes to Come

#11
 
Kap Bambino - Devotion


#12

Traxman - Da Mind of Traxman

#13

Zombie Nation - RGB 

#14

Boys Noize - Out of the Black


#15

Vitalic - Rave Age



#16

Kashiwa Daisuke - Re:

#17

Le1f - Dark York

#18

Mouse on Mars - WOW



#19

Whourkr - 4247 Snare Drums



#20

Current Value - Quantum Physics



#21

Calyx & Teebee - All or Nothing



#22

LV - Sebenza
 
#23

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - Pamyu Pamyu Revolution 

#24


Lorn - Ask the Dust 

#25

Slugabed - Time Team
 
#26

Huoratron - Cryptocracy


#27

Shifted - Crossed Paths


#28

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Meat and Bone 

#29

Justin Martin - Ghettos and Gardens
 
#30

The Phenomenal Handclap Band - Form and Control

#31: Noah D - Perspective
#32: Nina Kraviz - Nina Kraviz
#33: Scuba - Personality
#34: Mouse On Mars - Parastrophics
#35: Joe Hisaishi - Vermeer and Escher
#36: Savant - Alchemist
#37: The Gaslamp Killer - Breakthrough
#38: Burzum - Umskiptar
#39: Blu and Exile - Give Me My Flowers While I Can Still Smell Them
#40: Deerhoof - Breakup Song
#41: Purity Ring - Shrines
#42: Eric Prydz - Eric Prydz Presents Pryda
#43: Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes
#44: Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
#45: Chris Corsano - Cut
#46: Two Fingers - Stunt Rhythms
#47: Keith Fullerton Whitman - Occlusions; Real Time Music for Hybrid Digital-Analogue Modular Synthesizer
#48: Snapline - Phenomena
#49: Lindsey Stirling - Lindsey Stirling
#50: LAKE R▲DIO - Dream House

Top 51 through 100 sorted alphabetically:

Akira Kiteshi - Industrial Avenue
Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas
Audio - Soulmagnet
Black Sun Empire - From The Shadows
Bonde do Rol
ê - Tropicalbacanal
Capella - A Space Odyssey
Capsule - Stereo WorXXX
Chevron - Obstacles
Data - Selected Visualization
Demdike Stare - Elemental
Desolate - Celestial Light Beings
DJ Kentaro - Contrast
Fake Blood - Cells
Fluxion - Traces
Foreign Beggars - The Uprising
Fushitsusha - Hikari to Nazukeyo
Goth-Trad - New Epoch
Holy Other - Held
Jack White - Blunderbuss
Kaiti Kink Ensemble - Under the Iron Sky
Kilowatts - Acceptitude
Lazer Sword - Memory
Lone - Galaxy Garden
Madonna - MDNA
Maga Bo - Quilombo Do Futuro
Maskinen - Framgang Och Efterfragan
MNDR - Feed Me Diamonds
Motor - Man Made Machine
Nas - Life Is Good
Natasha Kmeto - The Ache
Netsky - 2
NON - Back To Mono
Otto Von Schirach - Supermeng
Photek - KU_PALM
Proxy - Music From The Eastblock Jungles Part 1
Rebecca Brandt - Numbers & Shapes
Reso - Tangram
Santigold - Master Of My Make-Believe
Savant - ISM
SCSI-9 - Metamorphosis
S
ébastien Tellier - My God Is Blue
Simian Mobile Disco - Unpatterns
SoKo - I Thought I Was An Alien
SPY - What The Future Holds
Tim Hecker & Daniel Lopatin - Instrumental Tourist
Tonikom - Found and Lost
Uppermost - One
Volor Flex - My Story
White Suns - Sinews
Yuichiro Fujimoto - Speaks Melodies