2023 Contemplative Cinema Canon (Noel Vera) Top10

Noel Vera
Businessworld (regular contributor), Cineaste Magazine (contributor), Critic After Dark: A Review of Philippine Cinema (author), criticafterdark@blogspot.com (blog author)

In alphabetical order:

After Life (Hirokazu Kore-eda)

City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao Hsien)

Hard to Be a God (Aleksei German)

The Hole (Tsai Ming Liang)

News From Home (Chantal Akerman)

Out 1 (Jacques Rivette)

Oxhide ll (Liu Jiaying)

Satantango (Bela Tarr)

Season of the Devil (Lav Diaz)

Todo todo teros (John Torres)  

Bonus : Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)

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