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Great Movies










Alien (1979)


Amadeus (1984)

Amarcord (1974)

Annie Hall (1977)









Babel (2006)

Badlands (1973)



Baraka (1992)

















Blow-Up (1966)



Body Heat (1981)


Breathless (1960)






Cabiria (1914)

Cache (2005)

Casablanca (1942)

Cat People (1942)





Chinatown (1974)

Chop Shop (2008)



The Circus (1928)






Contact (1997)





Crumb (1994)

Dark City (2005)



The Dead (1987)


Departures (2009)

Detour (1945)




Diva (2008)







Dracula (1931)

Duck Soup (1933)



Easy Rider (1969)


El Norte (1983)

El Topo (1970)



Exotica (1994)




Fargo (1996)

Faust (1926)












Goldfinger (1964)



GoodFellas (1991)







Greed (1925)




Harakiri (1962)







Ikiru (1952)






Jaws (1975)

JFK (1991)








King Kong (1933)

L'Atalante (1934)











Laura (1944)





Leolo (1993)








M (1931)

Magnolia (1999)








Manhattan (1979)





Mephisto (1981)

Metropolis (1926)



Mon Oncle (1958)




Moolaade (2007)

Moonstruck (1987)











Nashville (1975)

Network (1976)




Nosferatu (1922)


Nosferatu (1922)

Notorious (1946)




Ordet (1955)

Orpheus (1949)








Patton (1970)


Persona (1966)


Pickpocket (1959)



Pinocchio (1940)

Pixote (1981)


Playtime (1967)

The Pledge (2001)



Psycho (1960)





Ran (1985)

Rashomon (1950)



Red Beard (1965)

Red River (1948)




Rififi (1954)


Rio Bravo (1959)











Scarface (1983)





Senso (1954)

Seven (1995)




Shane (1953)



Shoah (1985)






Solaris (1972)






Stagecoach (1939)



Stroszek (1977)


Sunrise (1928)


Superman (1978)


Swing Time (1936)










3 Women (1977)



Top Hat (1935)






25th Hour (2002)


Ugetsu (1953)

Umberto D (1952)

Unforgiven (1992)




Vertigo (1958)

Victim (1961)

Viridiana (1961)



Walkabout (1971)












Woodstock (1970)






Yojimbo (1961)


Here is a collection of a dozen of the best documentaries I saw in 2012. It's not a "best of the year" list. Just some good memories of these films.

I will not burden you again with another complaint about lists. More than ever, I despise them because they shift focus away from a film and toward a list. When I recently caught up with "Django Unchained," for example, I gave it four stars. The comments section was overrun with readers asking if that meant it was now on my Top Ten list. One reader insisted on knowing which title it replaced. Although the piece was some 2,000 words long, another reader insisted he still wanted to see "my official review."

The Oscars are the most important way the American film industry can honor what it considers the year's best work. But for millions of movie lovers all over the globes, they are something else: A show.

Consider now the curious character of Dr. King Schultz. He is an itinerant dentist who works from his little wagon, traveling the backroads of the pre-Civil War South. As Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" opens, we see a line of shackled slaves being led through what I must describe as a deep, dark forest, because those are the kinds of forests we meet in fairy tales. Out of this deepness and darkness, Schultz (Christoph Waltz) appears, his lantern swinging from his wagon, which has a bobbling tooth on its roof.
• Michal Oleszczyk in Krakow

The only Polish actress ever to become a major Hollywood star, Pola Negri (née Apolonia Chałupiec), lived a life as exciting as the movies she graced with her presence. Born in a small Polish town of Lipno in 1894 (while the country was still under a triple occupation by its neighbors), she climbed her way up: first to the theatre stages of Warsaw and then to the budding movie business. After a successful crossover to the much more sophisticated German film industry -- and a happy pairing with its finest director, Ernst Lubitsch -- she starred in the international smash-hit, "Madame Dubarry" (1919). It was Lubitsch's ticket to Hollywood -- as well as Pola's.

• Omer M. Mozaffar in Chicago

Benh Zeitlin's first feature film, "Beasts of the Southern Wild" (2012), is at times a wonderful and at times a gripping story of a little girl making sense in a forgotten land of trees and rust. It follows in the tradition of movies about happy children running through an unhappy world, in an America we never see on the screen. If she does not steal your heart in the first hour, she will surely grab it in the final thirty minutes. So, if you have your own little Ruthless Gradeschooler her age, then I pity the levees that hold back your tears.
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