Recently we knew the ten best films according to the prestigious magazine Cahiers du cinema, is now Sight & Sound who offers us his list with the best of the year according to the votes of a good number of critics.
More than one hundred specialists from the world of cinema have participated in the vote to form this list of eleven films.
«The Master»By Paul Thomas Anderson has been chosen as the best film of this 2012. First place for one of the films that seems to have a good chance of appearing among the Oscar nominees of this next edition.
The Portuguese film by Miguel Gomes «Tabu»Was considered the second best film of this year, a film that also appeared on the Cahiers du cinema list in eighth position.
The recent winner of four accolades at the European Film Awards, including best film and Palme d'Or at Cannes, «Amour«, Has been chosen as third in this list.
The film that Cahiers du Cinema chose as the best film of the year and that it received at the Sitges Festival, among other awards, for the best film, «Holy motors»By Leos Carax has been chosen by Sight & Sound as the fourth best film of 2012.
In fifth position on this list are tied the ribbons «Beasts of the Southern Wild«, Film with options to be among the Oscar nominees, and«Berberian Sound Studio«, Film with six nominations for the British Independent Film Awards, including best film.
The recent winner of the best film award at the Gotham Awards «Moonrise KingdomWes Anderson's »is seventh on the Sight & Sound list.
In eighth position, a fourfold tie between the representative of Romania at this year's Oscars in the category of best foreign language film «beyond the hills«, The new film by David Cronenberg«Cosmopolis»Which was chosen by Cahiers du cinema as the second best film of the year,«Once Upon a Time in Anatolia»Last work of Nuri Bilge Ceylan and«This is Not A Film»Jafar Pahani's latest work carried out under house arrest with the help of Mojtaba Mirtahmaseb.
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Source - bfi.org.uk