2023 Contemplative Cinema Canon (Sean Gilman) Top10
Sean Gilman
TheChineseCinema.com
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These movies, all of which mean a lot to me personally, seem like a good representation of some different ways of being contemplative cinema—how it started, and where it’s going.
TheChineseCinema.com
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Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu, 1948)
Voyage in Italy (Roberto Rossellini, 1954)
Duvidha (Mani Kaul, 1973)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
The Terrorizers (Edward Yang, 1986)
Platform (Jia Zhangke, 2000)
Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2001)
Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)
Oxhide II (Liu Jiayin, 2009)
Journey to the West (Tsai Ming-liang, 2014)
Voyage in Italy (Roberto Rossellini, 1954)
Duvidha (Mani Kaul, 1973)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
The Terrorizers (Edward Yang, 1986)
Platform (Jia Zhangke, 2000)
Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2001)
Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)
Oxhide II (Liu Jiayin, 2009)
Journey to the West (Tsai Ming-liang, 2014)
These movies, all of which mean a lot to me personally, seem like a good representation of some different ways of being contemplative cinema—how it started, and where it’s going.
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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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