The Best Films of 2012, 10-1

10. The Snows of Kilimanjaro

9. The Queen of Versailles

8. Ruby Sparks
The tenderest of correctives, like being told by the beautiful woman you're totally into exactly what it is you're doing wrong.

7. Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present

6. Faust

5. Himizu

4. The Master

3. Beauty

2. London: The Modern Babylon
No film thrilled me more last year. Or made me more proud to be where I got to, eventually.

1. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia [above]
A night to remember, generating 2012's most complete directorial vision: the ups and downs of the landscape, the jokes and regrets, encamped around that scene of candlefire.