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This is probably the best film list for 2012 that you’ll ever read, and I’d be saying that even if I didn’t organize the whole shebang. 

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/2012-favorite-30-films-of-2012

This is totally late, but this is my blurb for The Cinefamily’s screening of Peter Watkins’ pseudo-doc about the US-as-police-state Punishment Park. 

An astonishing all-American dystopia that’s both terrifyingly realistic and fantastically hyperbolic, Peter Watkins’ masterpiece Punishment Park melts down the righteous anger of Vietnam protest politics into a nail-biting flow of pure narrative propulsion. In the film’s chilling “what-if” scenario, a uniformly groovy panoply of subversives (featuring pacifists, feminists, professors, draft dodgers and pop stars) stand in resistance against repressive establishment squares at a lethal government-sponsored kangaroo court — but survival soon trumps articulateness, as the prisoners are plunged into the deepest levels of hell right in the open air: a grueling, Most Dangerous Game-style desert death race with no food or water, but plenty of ticked-off cops. Shot guerilla-style on 16mm in a Mojave Desert dry lake bed, this docudrama trailblazer is unforgiving, raw, and scorching, and features shocking performances from its non-professional actors, who were cast primarily for their ability to speak on-camera about their real-life political beliefs. While insightfully awash in Seventies counterculture, Punishment Park is no time capsule, for what’s most terrifying is how relevant its alternate-reality police state still feels forty years later.

Here’s a list of the 15 best films of 2012 (so far) that I helped put together at Tiny Mix Tapes. I’m super excited: this mid-year list is better than most year-end lists will be. Go watch all of these, like, now.

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/favorite-15-films-of-2012-so-far

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RIP Lucifer AKA Lucy, 1995-2012. He’s on the left. 

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