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Critics Top Ten List 2012: Susan Oxtoby, ARTFORUM

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Susan Oxtoby, ARTFORUM

1 Napoleon, Abel Gance. San Francisco Silent Film Festival

2 Perret in France and Algeria (Heinz Emigholz)

3 Amour

4 The Last Time I Saw Macao (João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata)

5 The Pettifogger (Lewis Klahr)

6 It’s the Earth Not the Moon (Gonçalo Tocha)

7 View from the Acropolis (Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan)

8 August and After (Nathaniel Dorsky)

9 Here and There (Antonio Méndez Esparza)

10 Lines of Wellington (Valeria Sarmiento)

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