2023 Contemplative Cinema Canon (André Dias) Top10

André Dias
Film teacher ESTC, Portugal
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I take ‘contemplative cinema’ to be a pronounced post-mid 80s tendency and a Southeast Asian one at that, mainly characterized by the feeling of an extended duration or, more precisely, an empty extension; so, on this point I consciously neglect possible European precursors to this cinema.




A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY / GU LING JIE SHAO NIAN SHA REN SHI JIAN Edward Yang 1991

NAN GUO ZAI JIAN, NAN GUO / GOODBYE SOUTH, GOODBYE Hou Hsiao Hsien 1996

NO QUARTO DA VANDA / IN VANDA’S ROOM Pedro Costa 2000

TIE XI QU / WEST OF THE TRACKS Wang Bing 2002

MOARTEA DOMNULUI LAZARESCU / THE DEATH OF MR. LĂZĂRESCU Cristi Puiu 2005

HEI YAN QUAN / I DON’T WANT TO SLEEP ALONE Tsai Ming-liang 2006

SANG SATTAWAT / SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY Apichatpong Weerasethakul 2006

LIVERPOOL Lisandro Alonso 2008

HAPPÎ AWÂ / HAPPY HOUR Ryusuke Hamaguchi 2015

DA XIANG XI DI ER ZUO / AN ELEPHANT SITTING STILL Hu Bo 2018




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All the individual top10 ballots of this Contemplative Cinema greatest masterpieces survey will be published until the final canon.

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