1.
Una pistola en cada mano (2012)
A comedy centered on eight men in their 40s, all with identity crises. (95 mins.)
Director: Cesc Gay
2.
Admission
(2013)
A Princeton admissions officer who is up
for a major promotion takes a professional risk after she meets a
college-bound alternative school kid who just might be the son she gave
up years ago in a secret adoption. (107 mins.)
Director: Paul Weitz
Stars: Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, Nat Wolff, Gloria Reuben
3.
Behind the Candelabra
(2013)
Based on the autobiographical novel, the
tempestuous 6-year relationship between Liberace and his (much younger)
lover, Scott Thorson, is recounted. (118 mins.)
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Eric Zuckerman, Eddie Jemison
4.
Blood
(2012)
Thriller charting the moral collapse of a
police family. Two cop brothers, smothered by the shadow of their former
police chief father, must investigate a crime they themselves have
committed. (92 mins.)
Director: Nick Murphy
Stars: Paul Bettany, Mark Strong, Brian Cox, Stephen Graham
5.
Bullet to the Head
(2012)
After watching their respective partners
die, a New Orleans hitman and a Washington D.C. detective form an
alliance in order to bring down their common enemy. (92 mins.)
Director: Walter Hill
6.
Dark Skies
(2013)
As the Barret family's peaceful suburban
life is rocked by an escalating series of disturbing events, they come
to learn that a terrifying and deadly force is after them. (97 mins.)
Director: Scott Stewart
Stars: Keri Russell, Jake Brennan, Josh Hamilton, Dakota Goyo
7.
Das Leben ist nichts für Feiglinge
(2012)
The
life of the Färber family is completely unhinged after a bizarre
accident leading to the mother’s death. While Markus clings onto the
past and cannot come to terms with the loss of his wife, his
fifteen-year-old daughter Kim runs away to Denmark with Alex, a cool guy
who has dropped out of school, and visits the setting of her childhood.
Together with his mother Gerlinde and her lively caretaker, Paula,
Markus sets off to search for his daughter and so embarks on a journey
of self-discovery. (98 mins.)
Director: André Erkau
8.
Dead Man Down
(2013)
In New York City, a crime lord's right-hand man is seduced by a woman seeking retribution. (118 mins.)
Director: Niels Arden Oplev
9.
Smrt coveka na Balkanu
(2012)
A
lonely composer commits suicide in front of his web camera. The whole
‘big event’, as one of the neighbours calls the death of his neighbour,
starts when Aca enters the decedent’s apartment after he heard the
gunshot. (82 mins.)
Director: Miroslav Momcilovic
10.
Domestic
(2012)
Wonderfully surreal, painfully real, this
is the story of children, adults and animals who live together trying to
have a better life...
Director: Adrian Sitaru
Stars: Adrian Titieni, Gheorghe Ifrim, Ioana Flora, Clara Voda
11.
Gimme the Loot
(2012)
When their latest work is buffed by a
rival crew, two determined graffiti writers embark on an elaborate plan
to bomb the ultimate location: the New York Mets' Home Run Apple. (79 mins.)
Director: Adam Leon
12.
Identity Thief
(2013)
Mild-mannered businessman Sandy Patterson
travels from Denver to Miami to confront the deceptively
harmless-looking woman who has been living it up after stealing Sandy's
identity. (111 mins.)
Director: Seth Gordon
Stars: Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy, John Cho, Amanda Peet
13.
V tumane
(2012)
Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The
region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of
collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces impossible moral
choice. (127 mins.)
Director: Sergei Loznitsa
14.
Jack the Giant Slayer
(2013)
The ancient war between humans and a race
of giants is reignited when Jack, a young farmhand fighting for a
kingdom and the love of a princess, opens a gateway between the two
worlds. (114 mins.)
Director: Bryan Singer
Stars: Nicholas Hoult, Stanley Tucci, Ewan McGregor, Bill Nighy
15.
Aku no kyôten
(2012)
A popular high school teacher concocts an
extreme plan to deal with the rise of bullying and bad behavior among
the student body. (129 mins.)
Director: Takashi Miike
Stars: Takayuki Yamada, Ruth Sundell, Hideaki Itô, Daniel Genalo
16.
Monsters University
(2013)
A look at the relationship between Mike
and Sulley during their days at Monsters University -- when they weren't
necessarily the best of friends. (104 mins.)
Director: Dan Scanlon
Stars: Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Helen Mirren
17.
O Som ao Redor
(2012)
Life in a middle-class neighborhood in
present day Recife, Brazil, takes an unexpected turn after the arrival
of an independent private security firm... (131 mins.)
Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
18.
Oh Boy
(2012)
This tragicomedy is a self-ironic portrait
of a young man who drops out of university and ends up wandering the
streets of the city he lives: Berlin... (83 mins.)
Director: Jan Ole Gerster
19.
Olympus Has Fallen
(2013)
Disgraced former Presidential guard Mike
Banning finds himself trapped inside the White House in the wake of a
terrorist attack; using his inside knowledge, Banning works with
national security to rescue the President from his kidnappers. (120 mins.)
Director: Antoine Fuqua
20.
Autoreiji: Biyondo
(2012)
As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle... (112 mins.)
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Stars: Takeshi Kitano, Ryo Kase, Shun Sugata, Toshiyuki Nishida
21.
Oz the Great and Powerful
(2013)
A small-time magician is swept away to an enchanted land and is forced into a power struggle between three witches. (130 mins.)
Director: Sam Raimi
Stars: James Franco, Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz, Mila Kunis
22.
Paradies: Glaube
(2012)
The
second film of the trilogy explores religious fanaticism as
self-flagellating missionary Anna Maria finds that her summer devoted to
spreading the gospel is disrupted by the sudden return of her
paraplegic Muslim husband, who aggressively attempts to shatter her
beliefs. (113 mins.)
Director: Ulrich Seidl
23.
Populaire
(2012)
1958. Rose is a terrible secretary but a
demon typist. Her handsome boss resolves to turn her into the fastest
girl in the world. (111 mins.)
Director: Régis Roinsard
25.
Snitch
(2013)
A father goes undercover for the DEA in order to free his son who was imprisoned after being set up in drug deal. (112 mins.)
Director: Ric Roman Waugh
Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Susan Sarandon, Jon Bernthal, Rafi Gavron
26.
Spring Breakers
(2012)
Four college girls who land in jail after
robbing a restaurant in order to fund their spring break vacation find
themselves bailed out by a drug and arms dealer who wants them to do
some dirty work. (94 mins.)
Director: Harmony Korine
27.
Stoker
(2013)
After India's father dies, her Uncle
Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her
unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has
ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him. (99 mins.)
Director: Chan-wook Park
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29.
The Call
(2013)
When a veteran 911 operator takes a
life-altering call from a teenage girl who has just been abducted, she
realizes that she must confront a killer from her past in order to save
the girl's life. (94 mins.)
Director: Brad Anderson
30.
Djúpið
(2012)
Based on actual events, a fisherman tries
to survive in the freezing ocean after his boat capsizes off the south
coast of Iceland. (95 mins.)
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
31.
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
(2013)
When a street magician's stunts begins to
make their show look stale, superstar magicians Burt Wonderstone and
Anton Marvelton look to salvage on their act - and their friendship - by
staging their own daring stunt. (100 mins.)
Director: Don Scardino
Stars: Steve Carell, Luke Vanek, Steve Buscemi, Mason Cook
32.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
(2012)
A young Pakistani man is chasing corporate
success on Wall Street. He finds himself embroiled in a conflict
between his American Dream, a hostage crisis, and the enduring call of
his family's homeland. (130 mins.)
Director: Mira Nair
Stars: Riz Ahmed, Liev Schreiber, Kiefer Sutherland, Kate Hudson
33.
Thérèse Desqueyroux
(2012)
An unhappily married woman struggles to break free from social pressures. (110 mins.)
Director: Claude Miller
34.
Song for Marion
(2012)
Grumpy pensioner Arthur honors his
recently deceased wife's passion for performing by joining the
unconventional local choir to which she used to belong, a process that
helps him build bridges with his estranged son, James. (93 mins.)
Director: Paul Andrew Williams
35.
V/H/S/2 (2013)
V/H/S/2 (2013)
Jiha, to pa je bil dober mesec. Pravzaprav le prvi teden, potem je šlo vedno bolj navzdol, ampak okej, mesec junij je prinesel veliko odličnih naslov, med katerimi so mnogi, ki so si že danes zagotovili mesto na moji lestvici naj filmov leta. Če gremo po vrsti:
OdgovoriIzbriši1. Tepenin Ardi – prvenec turka Alperja je miniaturna mojstrovina, ki ponovno gleda „Beyond the Hill“ (kot lanskoletna romunska poslastica), in bi jo najlažje opisal kot mešanico med turškima Bir zamanlar Anadolu'da – iskanje in Nefes: Vatan sagolsun – čakanje.
2. O Som ao Redor – suburbian film, kot ga vidijo v Braziliji. Še en prvenec in še eno veliko pozitivno presenečenje.
3. V tumane – tokrat ne gre za tolikšno presenečenje, saj je govora o novem filmu Sergeija Loznitsa, avtorja odličnega Schastye moe iz leta 2010. Plus: 2. svetovna vojna.
4. Oh Boy – en dolgi dan mladega nemškega slackerja, ki bi namesto poslušanj moralnih pridig, iskanja zaposlitve in dokončanje študija, raje spil le dobro kavo. Pozitivni (čeprav črno-bel) Oslo, 31. august postavljen v Berlin.
5. Paradies: Glaube – drugi del Siedlove „paradiž“ trilogije, mi je nekoliko slabši od prvega („Liebe“), pa vendar tipični (beri: drzen, provokativen, bizaren, politično nekorekten …) Siedel. Takšen, kot ga imam pač najraje.
6. Aku no kyôten - Takashi Miike, a le v zadnji tretjini filma, ko film konvertira iz „resne realnosti“ v „stripovsko nasilno satiro“, kar film tudi naredi nekoliko drugačnega.
7. Behind the Candelabra – baje Soderberghov zadnji film. Vrhunski M. Douglas kot lasvegaški nastopač Liberace.
8. Djúpið – islandski predstavnik/kandidat za tujejezičnega oskarja. Resnična zgodba o mornarju brez ladje, izgubljenem v ledenem morju.
9. Smrt čoveka na Balkanu – ena soba, en kader, eno truplo in kopico tipično filmskih (beri: klišejskih) jugo likov.
10. Spring Breakers- po naslovu, tematiki, igralski zasedbi (Selena Gomez?), slikah in napovedniku sodeč: komercialni H. Korine? Jok, tako daleč pa spet nismo …
Od holivudskih bi izpostavil še Dead Man Down – navsezadnje gre za izdelek režiserja filmov Män som hatar kvinnor (2009) in še boljšega To Verdener. Dark Skies – predvidljivo, a dokaj gledljivi sci-fi odgovor na Signs. Stoker – o njem smo imeli različna mnenja tukaj: http://filmski-koticek.blogspot.com/2013/06/stoker-2013.html. V/H/S 2 – paket kratkih „found footage“ filmčkov, ki kot klofuta vedno znova udari po vseh amaterskih (in še več) filmskih ustvarjalcih.
Pri ostalih nekako veliko povejo že same ocene … Opozoril bi le na grozno slabe oz. razočaranja Skytten (glede na to, da sem ga vključil v moje najbolj pričakovane filme leta), Populaire (glede na to, da se je izmed vseh francoskih filmov prav ta znašel tudi v naših kinematografih), Song for Marion (glede na to, da je režiser P. A. Williams v preteklosti ustvaril enega najboljših angleških uličnih filmov ever – London to Brighton), The Reluctant Fundamentalist (glede na to, da Mira Nair še vedno hoče dokazati, da je politično ter nacionalno objektivna režiserka), Admission (glede na to, da si po dobri uri – kolikor sem ga pač gledal – še vedno ni zaslužil ocene)