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 Thank you very much to all the 21 voters who participated in this Canon survey for the greatest Contemplative Cinema in 2023. The results for the final Top10 has been published here ( in video ). Now come the statistics along with the full tabulation of all 210 votes. FINAL TOP10 Jeanne Dielman 10 votes Satantango 9 votes The Turin Horse 7 votes Goodbye, Dragon Inn 5 votes An Elephant Sitting Still 4 votes Stalker 4 votes Nostalghia 3 votes The Death of Mr. Lazarescu 3 votes Tiexi Qu: West of the Tracks 3 votes Werckmeister Harmonies 3 votes Like at the S&S 2022 canon , Jeanne Dielman makes the top of our present canon, with a total of 10 votes (=about half of the voters voted for it). No surprise. Congratulation to Chantal AKERMAN! However if we look at the accomplishments by auteurs, Béla TARR sits 3 of his films ( Satantango, The Turin Horse, Werckmeister Harmonies ) in the Top10 (thus splitting his 19 votes among three tit...

My apologizes, I had forgotten to credit Noel Vera in the video, I just fixed it in this updated video:   2023 CCC canon - Unspoken Cinema (YouTube) 6'12" Motion Design by Benoit Rouilly Survey announcement  | Final 2023 Canon comment & stats All voters (individual Top10s) : Marc Raymond Arthur Caria Srikanth Srinivasan Peter Labuza Sean Gilman Janos Kis   Justin Remes   Giacomo   Thorsten Botz-Bornstein   André Dias   Julian Ross   Michael Guarneri   Cáit Murphy   Emanuel   Jakob Boer Niels   Benoit Rouilly   Wojciech Sławnikowski   Jędrzej Sławnikowski   Arnaud Laporte   Noel Vera   Full tabulation of votes and stats ( here )

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

Arnaud Laporte dirige l’émission « Affaires Culturelles » sur France Culture "Happy together" Wong Kar Wai "Gerry" Gus Van Sant "Le syndrome asthénique" Kira Mouratova "Apocalypse Now" Francis Ford Coppola "Le ventre de l'architecte" Peter Greenaway "Koyaanisqatsi" Godfrey Reggio "Solaris" Andrei Tarkovski "Le cheval de Turin" Bela Tarr "Aguirre" Werner Herzog "Twin peaks" saison 1,2,3 David Lynch * * * All the individual top10 ballots of this  Contemplative Cinema greatest masterpieces survey  will be published until the final canon.

Jędrzej Sławnikowski, Pełna Sala ( pelnasala.pl ) Votes: Landscape in the Mist (Theo Angelopoulos) Elephant (Alan Clarke) Werckmeister Harmonies (Tarr Béla) Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov) The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu) The Turin Horse (Tarr Béla) Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (Lav Diaz) Sleep Has Her House (Scott Barley) An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo) Days (Tsai Ming-liang) * * * All the individual top10 ballots of this  Contemplative Cinema greatest masterpieces survey  will be published until the final canon.

Wojciech Sławnikowski (he/him), a student of Film Studies, Polish Philology, and Philosophy at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland The Travelling Players (1975, Angelopoulos) Jeanne Dielman (1975, Akerman) The Sacrifice (1986, Tarkovsky) Sátántangó (1994, Tarr) Vive l'amour (1994, Tsai) Ulysses' Gaze (1995, Angelopoulos) Werckmeister Harmonies (2000, Tarr) The Turin Horse (2011, Tarr) A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery (2016, Diaz) Days (2020, Tsai) * * * All the individual top10 ballots of this  Contemplative Cinema greatest masterpieces survey  will be published until the final canon.

Benoit Rouilly (alias HarryTuttle) cinéphile, critic, motion designer Twitter @rouillybenoit3c Sátántangó (1994/TARR Béla Tarr/Hungary) Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles (1975/Chantal AKERMAN/Belgium) Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2003/WANG Bing/China) The Turin Horse (2011/TARR Béla/Hungary) Le Moindre Geste (1971/DELIGNY/MANENTI/FR) I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2006/TSAI/Taiwan) Los Muertos (2004/ALONSO/Argentina) Leviathan (2012/CASTAING-TAYLOR, PARAVEL/FR-USA-UK) DOC Blissfully Yours (2002/WEERASETHAKUL/Thailand) An Elephant Sitting Still (2018/HU Bo/China) My 2022 Top20 CCC Canon My CCC Top10 Canon (2012)   * * * All the individual top10 ballots of this  Contemplative Cinema greatest masterpieces survey  will be published until the final canon.

Niels Satantango - Tarr The house - Bartas Heremias Book one - Diaz Jeanne Dielman - Akerman Goodbye Dragon Inn - Tsai The turin horse - Tarr Melancholia - Diaz Evolution of a philipino family - Diaz Century of birthing- Diaz Death in the land of encantos - Diaz * * * All the individual top10 ballots of this  Contemplative Cinema greatest masterpieces survey  will be published until the final canon.

Jakob Boer is a cotutelle PhD-student in film studies and philosophy at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) and Macquarie University Sydney (Australia). LinkedIn | Academia | ResearchGate At the First Breath of Wind (Franco Piavoli, 2002) Beginning (Dea Kulumbegashvili, 2020) Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2002) Double Tide (Sharon Lockhart, 2009) Eternity and a Day (Theo Angelopoulos, 1998) Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975) Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1983) Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas, 2007) The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr, 2011) Vive L'Amour (Tsai Ming-Liang, 1994) I wanted my top-10, on the one hand, to be canonical. So, it needed to reflect the formal and stylistic diversity; the varied stories, themes and emotional responses; and the extended geographic and cultural history of cinematic contemplation. That being said, on the other hand, it would also be inherently personal. Obviously, these two demands exis...

 Emanuel Stalker (1979) Tale of Tales (1979) Chungking Express (1994) Dreams (1990) Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) Kosmos (2009) Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003) The Red Turtle (2016) The Return (2003) Lights in the Dusk (2006)   * * * All the individual top10 ballots of this  Contemplative Cinema greatest masterpieces survey  will be published until the final canon.

Cáit Murphy Specialities: Claire Denis, auteurism, digital media, and social media Social media: @caitmurphyfilm on Instagram and Twitter Link: https://caitmurphyfilm.wixsite.com/portfolio My list may not be totally reflective of contemplative cinema, as some do not conform to the general tendencies. Le samouraï is possibly an outlier in its emphasis on genre and pulsating score. However, its contemplativeness and silence revise the noir/crime film in ways that sometimes feel closer to Bresson than to Columbia studio noirs. The depiction of non-human labour, repetition, and silence in the documentary Cow is my reasoning to include it. This is a new stylistic departure for Andrea Arnold, while maintaining her interest in complex female subjects and contemporary working life in Britain. My general feeling about contemplative cinema is a sense of not just duration (durée) but deep spatial awareness and ambiguity, a kind of palimpsest (like Jarman’s Blue ) in which spacio-temporality ma...

Michael Guarneri writer L'avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960) Fare un film è per me vivere. Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, 1971) One for the road. Damnation (Béla Tarr, 1988) The storm rages outside, the fog thickens inside our brains and lungs. Sitting on a fart in the darkest corner of the bar, we think about all the things that went wrong and can't be changed... It is too late for everything now, it is all over... but maybe there is still a chance... Maybe, just maybe, after this drink, after this cigarette, something will happen and everything will change... Hope is a horrible thing indeed, and yet we can't help clinging on to it as we sink - slowly but surely - into nothingness. Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (Wang Bing, 2003) "In the past, in China, there was a very explicit and severe system at work. What I mean is that the exercise of power by the government over the individuals was very direct and evident: the Communist Party ruled people through di...

Julian Ross Curator, researcher, writer; Assistant Professor, Leiden University. @rossjulian News from Home (Chantal Akerman) Foyer (Ismaïl Bahri) Mouth to Mouth (Theresa Hak Kyung Cha) La Région Centrale (Michael Snow) One Way Boogie Woogie / 27 Years Later (James Benning) By the time it gets dark (Anocha Suwichakornpong) The Train Stop (Sergei Loznitsa) Brouillard #14 (Alexandre Larose) Fatima's Letter (Alia Syed) Another Day of a Housewife (Mako Idemitsu) * * * All the individual top10 ballots of this  Contemplative Cinema greatest masterpieces survey  will be published until the final canon.

André Dias Film teacher ESTC, Portugal https://estc.ipl.pt/cursos-cinema @aindanao http://facebook.com/aindanaocomecamos… 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 ST...

Thorsten Botz-Bornstein Philosopher www.botzbornstein.org Werckmeister Harmonies [Werckmeister harmóniák]. Dir. Béla Tarr. 2000. Satantango [Sátántangó]. Dir. Béla Tarr. 1994. An Elephant Sitting Still [大象席地而坐]. Dir Hu Bo. 2018. The Hole [洞]. Dir. Tsai Ming-liang. 1998. Liverpool. Dir Lisandro Alonso. 4L, 2008. Ossos. Dir. Pedro Costa. Madragoa Fims, 1997. Stalker. Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky. Mosfilm, 1970. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu [Moartea domnului Lazarescu]. Dir. Cristi Puiu. Mandragora, 2005. The Mirror. [ Зеркало]. Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky. Katinka Farago, 1980. Nostaghia. Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky. Sovin Film-Rai2, 1983. * * * All the individual top10 ballots of this  Contemplative Cinema greatest masterpieces survey  will be published until the final canon.

Giacomo 1) Au Hasard Balthazar 2) Stalker 3) Satantango 4) Jeanne Dielman 5) Landscape in the mist 6) Maborosi 7) Taste of Cherry 8) Goodbye Dragon Inn 9) Eureka 10) Still Life (a bit undecided between the iranian and chinese one, they're both quite contemplative, but I chose the Iranian one) Decided to have a single film for every director and also was a bit undecided about what could be considered truly contemplative. Have a nice day * * * All the individual top10 ballots of this  Contemplative Cinema greatest masterpieces survey  will be published until the final canon.

Justin Remes Associate Professor of Film Studies, Iowa State University Specialty: Experimental Film Author of Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis (Columbia UP, 2015) and Absence in Cinema: The Art of Showing Nothing (Columbia UP, 2020) Justin Remes on academia.edu H2O (Steiner, 1929) Screen Test: Ann Buchanan (Warhol, 1964) Wavelength (Snow, 1967) Lemon (Frampton, 1969) Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Akerman, 1975) One Way Boogie Woogie (Benning, 1977) Sátántangó (Tarr, 1994) Deanimated (Arnold, 2002) Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai, 2003) Five: Dedicated to Ozu (Kiarostami, 2003) * * * All the individual top10 ballots of this  Contemplative Cinema greatest masterpieces survey  will be published until the final canon.

Janos Kis Avant-garde filmmaker, photographer www.janos-kis.com SÁTÁNTANGÓ by Béla Tarr LATE SPRING by Yasujirô Ozu THE SEVENTH SEAL by Ingmar Bergman TASTE OF CHERRY by Abbas Kiarostami JEANNE DIELMAN by Chantal Akerman NOSTALGHIA by Andrei Tarkovsky WHAT TIME IS IT THERE? by Tsai Ming-liang STILL LIFE by Jia Zhangke ETERNITY AND A DAY by Theodoros Angelopoulos FANTASMA by Lisandro Alonso + ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL by Rainer Werner Fassbinder CYCLO by Trần Anh Hùng DUST IN THE WIND by Hou Hsiao-hsien DISTANT by Nuri Bilge Ceylan ++ At Sea by Peter Hutton Meshes of the afternoon by Maya Deren ONE WAY BOOGIE WOOGIE by James Benning * * * All the individual top10 ballots of this Contemplative Cinema greatest masterpieces survey will be published until the final canon.

Sean Gilman TheChineseCinema.com @theendofcinema 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) 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. * * * All the individual top10 ballots of this  Contemplative Cinema greatest masterpieces survey  will be published until the final canon.

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