Film School picks for the best films of 2012.
Moonrise Kingdom – Wes Anderson
How to Survive a Plague – David France
Silver Lining Playbook – David O. Russell
Holy Motors – Leos Carax
The Law in These Parts – Ra’anan Alexandrowizc
Middle of Nowhere – Ava DuVernay
Rust and Bone – Jacques Audiard
Lincoln – Steven Speilberg
The House I Live In – Eugene Jarecki
The Master – Paul Thomas Anderson
Beasts of the Southern Wild – Benh Zeitlan
In The Family – Patrick Wang
Django Unchained – Quentin Tarantino
Beauty is Embarrassing – Neil Berkeley
Brooklyn Castle – Katie Dellamaggiore
The Ambassador – Hans Brugger
The Loneliest Planet – Julia Loktev
The Invisible War – Kirby Dick
Hello I Must Be Going – Todd Louiso
Searching For Sugar Man – Malik Bendjeloul
5 Broken Cameras – Emad Burnat
The Waiting Room – Peter Nicks
The Gatekeepers – Dror Moreh
Island President – Jon Schenk
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry – Alison Klayman
Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best – Ryan O’Nan
Central Park Five – David McMahon, Ken Burns and Sarah Burns
Portrait of Wally – Andrew Shea
Safety Not Guaranteed – Colin Trevorrow
Only The Young – Elizabeth Mims and Jason Tippett
Tchoupitoulas – Bill Ross and Turner Ross
King Kelly -Andrew Neel
The Flat – Arnon Goldfinger
The Kite – Prashant Bhargava
This list is subject to periodic updates because, to my undying shame, I have not yet seen; Zero Dark Thirty, Amour, Footnote, Take This Waltz, The Deep Blue Sea, The Comedy, Oslo, August 31st, Sister, Queen of Versailles, The Sessions, This Is Not a Film, Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Not Present, Sleepwalk With Me, Barbara or Mea Maxima Culpa.