Over the next few weeks Spooool will get list crazy on your ass as we come to the end of the year and everyone starts arguing about the year’s best film.
December reminds us just how much everybody loves a good list (especially Santa), and we’re no different. We’ll bring you a new Spooool.ie (December 17th is set-in-stone launch day, we promise) with our favourites from 2012 along with some other bits and pieces to round up the year in cinema.
Here’s our list from 2011 in case you missed it.
Martin and John Michael McDonagh.
And finally to get you in a listy mood why not take at look at the brothers McDonagh’s submissions to Sight and Sound magazine’s greatest film of all time poll. There are a lot of similarities between the two and might give us an insight into what we can expect from Martin’s upcoming Seven Psychopaths.
Martin McDonagh’s votes…
| Badlands | 1973 | Terrence Malick |
| Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles |
| Godfather: Part I, The | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The | 1966 | Sergio Leone |
| Manhattan | 1979 | Woody Allen |
| Matter of Life and Death, A | 1946 | Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger |
| Night of the Hunter, The | 1955 | Charles Laughton |
| Seven Samurai | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa |
| Taxi Driver | 1976 | Martin Scorsese |
| Wild Bunch, The | 1969 | Sam Peckinpah |
John Michael McDonagh’s vote…
| Badlands | 1973 | Terrence Malick |
| Lady Eve, The | 1941 | Preston Sturges |
| Matter of Life and Death, A | 1946 | Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger |
| Night of the Hunter, The | 1955 | Charles Laughton |
| Performance | 1970 | Donald Cammell/Nicolas Roeg |
| Samouraï, Le | 1967 | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| Sonatine | 1993 | Kitano Takeshi |
| Taxi Driver | 1976 | Martin Scorsese |
| Touch of Evil | 1958 | Orson Welles |
| Wild Bunch, The | 1969 | Sam Peckinpah |
