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List of films I watched in 2012 (with ratings)

Ratings from 1 to 4 Stars

2 Days in New York (2012) - Delpy ****
3 Penny Opera (1931) - Pabst *** 1/2
49th Parallel (1941) - Powell ****
50/50 (2011) - Levine ***
2046 (2004) - Kar-Wai * 1/2
Alambrista (1977) - Young ** 1/2
Andrei Rublev (1966) - Tarkovsky *** 1/2
And the Ship Sails On (1984) - Fellini **
Another Earth (2011) - Cahill *** 1/2
Antichrist (2009) - Von Trier *** 1/2
Apart from You (1933) - Naruse *** 1/2
The Artist (2011) - Hazanavicius ** 1/2
The Awful Truth (1937) - McCarey *** 1/2
The Bakery Girl of Monceau (1963) - Rohmer ***
The Baron of Arizona (1950) - Fuller ***
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) - Zeitlin **
Being There (1979) - Ashby ***
Belle de Jour (1967) - Bunuel *** 1/2
Ben-Hur (1925) - Niblo ** 1/2
Bernie (2012) - Linklater ***
A Better Life (2011) - Weitz ***
Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958) - Monicelli ***
The Birds (1963) - Hitchcock ****
Blanche (1972) - Borowczyk **
Blazing Saddles (1974) - Brooks ***
Blithe Spirit (1945) - Lean ***
Born Yesterday (1950) - Cukor **
Bottle Rocket (1996) - W. Anderson *** 1/2
Boudu Saved From Drowning (1932) - Renoir ****
The Bowery (1933) - Walsh ** 1/2
Brave (2012) - Andrews ***
Brief Encounter (1946) - Lean ****
Bringing Up Baby (1938) - Hawks ****
Broken Blossoms (1919) - Griffith *** 1/2
Caeser and Cleopatra (1945) - Pascal ** 1/2
Call Her Savage (1932) - Dillon ***
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010) - McCall *** 1/2
A Canterbury Tale (1944) - Powell and Pressburger ***
Capricious Summer (1968) - Menzel ** 1/2
Casablanca (1942) - Curtiz ****
Casque D'or (1952) - Becker ***
Caught (1949) - Ophuls ***
The Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) - Herzog *** 1/2
Certified Copy (2010) - Kiarostami ***
Cheyenne Autumn (1964) - Ford ***
Children of Paradise (1945) - Carne *** 1/2
City Girl (1930) - Murnau *** 1/2
Claire's Knee (1970) - Rohmer ** 1/2
Cops (1922) - Keaton ****
Coup de Grace (1976) - Schlondorff ** 1/2
Coupe de Torchon (1981) - Tavernier *** 1/2
The Cranes Are Flying (1957) - Kalatozov *** 1/2
Crazed Fruit (1956) - Nakahira ** 1/2
Cria Cuervos (1976) - Saura ***
Criss Cross (1949) - Siodmak ***
Daisies (1966) - Chytilova ****
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) - Nolan * 1/2
A Dangerous Method (2011) - Cronenberg **
Dead Ringers (1988) - Cronenberg * 1/2
The Deep Blue Sea (2011) - Davies ****
Design For Living (1933) - Lubitsch ** 1/2
Dinner at Eight (1933) - Cukor ***
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) - Oz ***
Django Unchained (2012) - Tarantino ** 1/2
D.O.A. (1950) - Mate **
Dodsworth (1936) - Wyler ****
The Double Life of Veronique (1991) - Kieslowski ****
Drive (2011) - Refn ****
The Driver (1978) - Hill ***
Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922) - Lang ** 1/2
Duck Soup (1933) - McCarey ****
Duel in the Sun (1947) - Vidor ** 1/2
Earth (1930) - Dovzhenko ***
Eating Raoul (1982) - Bartel * 1/2
Elena (2011) - Zvagintsev ** 1/2
Elena and Her Men (1956) - Renoir ** 1/2
Eros Plus Massacre (1969) - Yoshida ***
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) - Spielberg ****
Every-Night Dreams (1933) - Naruse *** 1/2
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask (1972) - Allen ***
The Exile (1947) - Ophuls ** 1/2
Faces (1968) - Cassavetes ****
The Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) - Anderson ** 1/2
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) - Heckerling ***
Faust (1926) - Murnau ****
F For Fake (1972) - Welles ** 1/2
Fighting Elegy (1966) - Suzuki **
Fires on the Plain (1959) - Ichikawa ****
The First Grader (2010) - Chadwick ** 1/2
The Five Year Engagement (2012) - Stoller ***
Floating Weeds (1959) - Ozu ****
The Flowers of St. Francis (1950) - Rossellini *** 1/2
For All Mankind (1989) - Reinert ***
The Forgiveness of Blood (2011) - Marston ** 1/2
Force of Evil (1948) - Polonsky ** 1/2
Fort Apache (1948) - Ford ** 1/2
Forty Guns (1957) - Fuller ***
French Cancan (1955) - Renoir *** 1/2
The Freshman (1925) - Newmayer/Taylor *** 1/2
Friendly Persuasion (1956) - Wyler ***
The Future (2011) - July * 1/2
The Game (1997) - Fincher *
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) - Fincher *
The Golden Coach (1953) - Renoir ** 1/2
Good Morning (1959) - Ozu ***
Goto: Island of Love (1969) - Borowczyk **
Grand Illusion (1937) - Renoir *** 1/2
The Grey (2012) - Carnahan ***
Groundhog Day (1993) - Ramis ****
Hamlet at Elsinore (1964) - Saville ****
Harold and Maude (1971) - Ashby *** 1/2
The Headless Woman (2008) - Martel **
Heathers (1988) - Lehman *** 1/2
The Heiress (1948) - Wyler ****
The Help (2011) - Taylor ** 1/2
High and Low (1963) - Kurosawa *** 1/2
The Hitch-Hiker (1953) - Lupino ** 1/2
The Honeymoon Killers (1970) - Kastle **
The Horse's Mouth (1958) - Neame **
How Green Was My Valley (1941) - Ford *** 1/2
Hugo (2011) - Scorsese ***
The Hunger Games (2012) - Ross ***
I Am Waiting (1957) - Kurahara ** 1/2
Identification of a Woman (1982) - Antonioni * 1/2
The Ides of March (2011) - Clooney ** 1/2
I Fidanzati (1962) - Olmi ** 1/2
I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) - Powell and Pressburger ****
Incendies (2010) - Villeneuve ***
The Informer (1935) - Ford ** 1/2
Intermezzo (1939) - Ratoff ***
Intermezzo (1936) - Molander ***
In Vanda's Room (2000) - Costa **
In Which We Serve (1942) - Lean ***
The Iron Horse (1924) - Ford ***
The Iron Lady (2011) - Lloyd *
I Shot Jesse James (1949) - Fuller ***
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) - Capra ****
Ivan's Childhood (1962) - Tarkovsky ****
Ivan the Terrible I and II (1946 and 1948) - Eisenstein *** 1/2
Jezebel (1938) - Wyler ***
The Joke (1969) - Jires ** 1/2
Kill (1968) - Okamoto ** 1/2
Killing Them Softly (2012) - Dominik ** 1/2
The King of Kings (1928) - DeMille ***
The Kiss (1929) - Feyder ***
La Boheme (1926) - Vidor ** 1/2
La Commare Secca (1964) - Bertolucci ** 1/2
La ciel et a vous (1944) - Gremillon ***
La Collectionneuse (1967) - Rohmer ** 1/2
Lacombe, Lucien (1974) - Malle ***
The Ladykillers (1955) - Mackendrick *** 1/2
La Jetee (1962) - Marker *** 1/2
Lancelot du Lac (1974) - Bresson **
La Pointe Courte (1956) - Varda ***
La Promesse (1996) - Dardennes ***
L'Argent (1983) - Bresson ****
La Ronde (1950) - Ophuls ****
The Last Laugh (1924) - Murnau ****
The Last of the Mohicans (1920) - Brown, Tourneur ***
The Last of the Mohicans (1992) - Mann ** 1/2
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) - Crichton *** 1/2
Le Bonheur (1964) - Varda *** 1/2
Le Cercle Rouge (1970) - Melville ****
Le Havre (2011) - Kaurismaki ** 1/2
L'Enfant (2005) - Dardenne ***
Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989) - Kaurismaki ***
Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses (1994) - Kaurismaki **
Le Notte Bianche (1957) - Visconti *** 1/2
Le Plaisir (1952) - Ophuls ***
Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945) - Bresson *** 1/2
Les Diaboliques (1955) - Clouzot *** 1/2
Les Enfants Terribles (1950) - Melville ***
Les Miserables (2012) - Hooper ***
Les Miserables (1934) - Bernard ***
Les Visiteurs du Soir (1942) - Carne *** 1/2
The Letter (1940) - Wyler *** 1/2
Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948) - Ophuls ***
Letter Never Sent (1959) - Kalatozov *** 1/2
Like Crazy (2011) - Doremus ***
Life During Wartime (2010) - Solondz **
Lincoln (2012) - Spielberg ****
The Lives of Others (2006) - von Donnersmarck ** 1/2
Lola Montes (1955) - Ophuls *** 1/2
The Loneliest Planet (2012) - Loktev ****
Lonesome (1928) - Fejos ****
The Lost Honor of Katherina Blum (1975) - Schlondorff ***
Lost In America (1984) - Brooks ** 1/2
Love Affair (1939) - McCarey ** 1/2
Love in the Afternoon (1972) - Rohmer ***
The Lower Depths (1936) - Renoir ** 1/2
Lumiere d'ete (1943) - Gremillon *** 1/2
Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945) - Crabtree ***
Madame Bovary (1949) - Minnelli ***
The Makioka Sisters (1983) - Ichikawa ** 1/2
The Man in Grey (1943) - Arliss ***
The Man With the Movie Camera (1928) - Vertov *** 1/2
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) - Durkin * 1/2
M. Butterfly (1993) - Cronenberg ***
The Master (2012) - PT Anderson *** 1/2
A Matter of Life and Death (1945) - Powell and Pressburger *** 1/2
Melancholia (2011) - Von Trier *** 1/2
Metropolitan (1990) - Stillman *** 1/2
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982) - Allen **
Mildred Pierce (2011) - Haynes ***
Le Million (1931) - Clair ** 1/2
The Mill and the Cross (2011) - Majewski *** 1/2
Miss Julie (1952) - Sjoberg *** 1/2
The Moment of Truth (1965) - Rosi *** 1/2
Moneyball (2011) - Bennett *** 1/2
Monsieur Lazhar (2011) - Falardeau ***
Monsters Inc. (2001) - Docter ***
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974) - Gilliam *** 1/2
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983) - Jones * 1/2
Moonrise Kingdom (2012) - Anderson ****
Mulholland Dr. (2001) - Lynch ****
The Muppets (2011) - Bobin ***
My Crasy Life (1992) - Gorin **
My Night at Maud's (1969) - Rohmer *** 1/2
My Week With Marilyn (2011) - Curtis ****
Naked Lunch (1991) - Cronenberg ** 1/2
National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) - Landis ***
A Night to Remember (1958) - Baker ***
No Blood Relation (1932) - Naruse ***
A Nous a Liberte (1931) - Clair ** 1/2
Of Gods and Men (2010) - Beauvois *** 1/2
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) - Ceylon ***
One, Two, Three (1961) - Wilder ****
Onibaba (1964) - Shindo ***
Only Angels Have Wings (1939) - Hawks ****
The Organizer (1963) - Monicelli ***
Orphans of the Storm (1921) - Griffith ****
Oslo, August 31st (2011) - Trier ** 1/2
Overlord (1975) - Cooper ****
Pandora's Box (1929) - Pabst *** 1/2
The Phantom of the Opera (1925) - Julian *** 1/2
Pink Flamingoes (1971) - Waters ***
The Playhouse (1921) - Keaton *** 1/2
Poetry (2010) - Lee ***
Poto and Cabengo (1977) - Gorin ***
The Producers (1968) - Brooks ****
Prometheus (2012) - Scott ** 1/2
Purple Noon (1960) - Clement ***
Rebel Without a Cause (1955) - Ray ****
The Reckless Moment (1949) - Ophuls ***
Red Beard (1965) - Kurosawa ***
Red Dust (1932) - Fleming ***
Remorques (1941) - Gremilion ***
A Report on the Party and Guests (1966) - Nemec ***
Return of the Prodigal Son (1967) - Schorn ***
Ride the High Country (1962) - Peckinpah ***
Rififi (1955) - Dassin *** 1/2
Rio Grande (1950) - Ford ***
Road to Morocco (1942) - Butler
Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964) - Haskin
Roman Scandals (1933) - Tuttle ** 1/2
Rosetta (1999) - Dardennes ***
Routine Pleasures (1986) - Gorin ** 1/2
Russian Ark (2002) - Sokurov ** 1/2
The Sacrifice (1986) - Tarkovsky *** 1/2
Safety Last (1923) - Newmeyer ****
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) - Reisz *** 1/2
The Scarlet Empress (1934) - von Sternberg *** 1/2
The Scarlet Letter (1926) - Sjostrom ****
The Secret of the Grain (2007) - Kechiche *** 1/2
Secret Sunshine (2007) - Chang-dong *** 1/2
Seduced and Abandoned (1964) - Germi ****
A Separation (2011) - Farhadi *** 1/2
Shadows (1959) - Cassavetes ***
Shallow Grave (1994) - Boyle *** 1/2
Shaun of the Dead (2004) - Wright ** 1/2
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) - Ford *** 1/2
The Son (2002) - Dardenne ** 1/2
Sons of the Desert (1933) - Seiter ** 1/2
The Spiral Staircase (1945) - Siodmak *** 1/2
Stage Door (1937) - La Cava *** 1/2
Stalker (1976) - Tarkovsky ***
The Steel Helmet (1951) - Fuller ****
Story of a Prostitute (1965) - Suzuki ***
Street Without End (1934) - Naruse ***
Stromboli (1950) - Rossellini ***
Summer Interlude (1955) - Bergman *** 1/2
Summer with Monika (1953) - Bergman *** 1/2
The Sundowners (1960) - Zinneman ***
Sunrise (1927) - Murnau *** 1/2
Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) - Schesinger ** 1/2
Suzanne's Career (1963) - Rohmer ** 1/2
Sweetie (1989) - Campion *** 1/2
Take Shelter (2011) - Nichols *** 1/2
Take This Waltz (2011) - Polley ***
Terminal Station (1953) - De Sica ****
There Was a Father (1942) - Ozu ***
The Thin Man (1934) - Van Dyke ***
Thieves' Highway (1949) - Dassin ****
This Happy Breed (1944) - Lean ***
Three Outlaw Samurai (1964) - Gosha ** 1/2
The Tin Drum (1979) - Schlondorff ***
The Tree of Life (2011) - Malick ****
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) - Alfredson ** 1/2
Tiny Furniture (2010) - Dunham *** 1/2
To Be or Not to Be (1942) - Lubitsch ****
Tokyo Chorus (1931) - Ozu ** 1/2
To Rome with Love (2012) - Allen *** 1/2
Torrent (1926) - Bell ***
Trouble with the Curve (2012) - Lorenz ***
True Heart Susie (1919) - Griffith ***
The Turin Horse (2011) - Tarr ***
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) - Hellman *** 1/2
Ugetsu (1953) - Mizoguchi ***
Under the Volcano (1984) - Huston **
Vampyr (1932) - Dreyer ***
Vanya on 42nd Street (1994) - Malle *** 1/2
Veronika Voss (1982) - Fassbinder ***
The Wages of Fear (1953) - Clouzot ***
Wagon Master (1950) - Ford *** 1/2
War Horse (2011) - Spielberg ****
The War Room (1993) - Pennebaker ***
Way Down East (1920) - Griffith ****
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) - Ramsey **
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) - Tarr ***
The Westerner (1940) - Wyler ***
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960) - Naruse ***
Whiskey Galore (1949) - Mackendrick *** 1/2
The Wicked Lady (1945) - Arliss *** 1/2
The Wind (1928) - Sjostrom ****
Wings of Desire (1988) - Wenders ***
Win Win (2011) - McCarthy *** 1/2
A Woman Under the Influence (1974) - Cassavetes ****
Wooden Crosses (1932) - Bernard *** 1/2
World on a Wire (1973) - Fassbinder ** 1/2
Written on the Wind (1956) - Sirk *** 1/2
WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971) - Makavejev ***
Young Torless (1966) - Schlondorff ** 1/2