Ispent the last month of 2012 avoiding hobbits, dodging Quentin Tarantino andtrying to remember what I liked about the year about to end.
Well,there were lots of things to like, good movies and maybe a couple of greatones, And yet, long ago, I decided to leave “best-of” lists and questions ofenduring greatness to historians, who have time and perspective to ponder thesuperiority of Vertigo over Citizen Kane or Battleship Potemkin. The moviesbelow are simply my favorites, arranged in a rough order of preference, filmsthat showed me something new—or at least less commonplace—about our world, anddid it engagingly and entertainingly.
Sadly,some of these selections had brief appearances at best on Milwaukee’s bigscreens—often at the UWM Union Theatre or as part of the Milwaukee Film Festival.One, the superb Chicken and Plums by Iranian expatriate Marjane Satrapi, nevermade it at all.
FavoriteFilms
Lincoln
Flight
KillingThem Softly
Chickenwith Plums
Beastsof the Southern Wild
Compliance
TheWoman in the Fifth
Savages
SafetyNot Guaranteed
Valleyof the Saints
Soundof My Voice
RubySparks
DarkHorse
RestlessCity
TheSessions
Argo
FavoriteAnimated Films
Frankenweenie
TheLorax
FavoriteDocumentaries
AiWeiwei: Never Sorry
Searchingfor Sugarman
NeilYoung Journeys
