2023 Contemplative Cinema Canon (Srikanth Srinivasan) Top10
Srikanth Srinivasan
is a film critic from Bangalore, India.
Twitter: @J_A_F_B
With deep respect to the films of Artavazd Peleshian, Sharunas Bartas, Lav Diaz, Darezhan Omirbaev, Sharon Lockhart, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Alexander Sokurov, Pedro Costa, Lisandro Alonso, Amir Naderi, Liu Jiayin, Sergei Loznitsa, James Benning, Jia Zhang-Ke, Semih Kaplanoglu, Arby Ovanessian, Mani Kaul, Kumar Shahani, Abolfazl Jalili, Wang Bing, Saeed Ebrahimifar, Marva Nabili, Amit Dutta and many, many others that I'm certainly failing to remember.
is a film critic from Bangalore, India.
Twitter: @J_A_F_B
- Tabiat-e Bijan (Still Life, Sohrab Shahid Saless, 1974)
- Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
- Pokkuveyil (Twilight, Govindan Aravindan, 1982)
- El Sol Del Membrillo (The Quince Tree Sun, Victor Erice, 1992)
- Sátántangó (Béla Tarr, 1994)
- Bu San (Good Bye, Dragon Inn, Tsai Ming-Liang, 2003)
- Loong Boonmee Raleuk Chat (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010)
- La Mort de Louis XIV (The Death of Louis XIV, Albert Serra, 2016)
- 24 Frames (Abbas Kiarostami, 2017)
- Matter Out of Place (Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 2022)
With deep respect to the films of Artavazd Peleshian, Sharunas Bartas, Lav Diaz, Darezhan Omirbaev, Sharon Lockhart, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Alexander Sokurov, Pedro Costa, Lisandro Alonso, Amir Naderi, Liu Jiayin, Sergei Loznitsa, James Benning, Jia Zhang-Ke, Semih Kaplanoglu, Arby Ovanessian, Mani Kaul, Kumar Shahani, Abolfazl Jalili, Wang Bing, Saeed Ebrahimifar, Marva Nabili, Amit Dutta and many, many others that I'm certainly failing to remember.
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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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