2023 Contemplative Cinema Canon (Peter Labuza) Top10

Peter Labuza
Film Historian and Union Researcher (IATSE Local 600)
@labuzamovies




Playtime (Jacques Tati, France, 1967)

Jeannie Dielman (Chantal Akerman, Belgium, 1975)

Life...and Nothing More (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1992)

The Puppetmaster (Hou Hsiao Hsien, Taiwan, 1993)

Beau Travail (Claire Denis, France, 1999)

Goodbye Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-Liang, Taiwan, 2003)

Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand, 2003)

Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania, 2009)

Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, USA, 2010)

Leones (Jazmin Lopez, Argentina, 2013)




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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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