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I find this list a bit troubling. Despite the excellent introduction which does a fine job of explaining the reasoning, I have trouble with labeling so many disparate films as "contemplative." Of course, you touch on this in the intro. There are some very good films here and some I've not seen but nothing jumps out at me as something I wouldn't watch. Nice work!

David

17Feb12

Thank you very much. This list is full of my favorites. But I was thinking, #146 Alamar is (1) Short, (2) Color, and (3) Happy. How many of the films here are Short and Color and Happy?

micah van hove

7Jan12

Thanks for this, I'll be visiting this often

James Devereaux

29Aug11

Great list. Plenty I haven't seen on there that I will be checking out. Many thanks. James.

João Oliveira 10

28Jul11

Just one kiarostami (why not "ten", life goes on") no Oliveira ("vou para casa"... or "Party")....just one Apichatpong..... anyway, I haven´t seen most of the moovies in the list, but i intend to... so Thanks so much for the list ....

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Monsieur Arkadin

25Feb12

I can see the exclusion of "ten" as the film consists of non-stop dialogue, which is generally antithetical to the "genre."

SAYONARA BUNKA!! (Formerly Corbeau)

2Jun11

This is probably one of my favourite lists yet!

Al Saad

1Jun11

Maybe, Be with Me should be added here...

Jup4rkov

11Apr11

i wish you could add 4:30 to the list

Kenji

28Mar11

I wonder if Berta's Motives fits

Kenji

28Mar11

Glad you've got Sleep Furiously here.

Julija

6Mar11

maybe you could help me by telling where to find Lav Diaz Death in the Land of Encantos , Melancholia torrents?

Jean-François Pissias

10Feb11

This is the best page ever! thank you for creating this wondeful beauty!

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Jup4rkov

19Dec10

definately you should add i don't want to sleep alone from tsai.. it's a beautifull movie and it's such a great list

Joel

1Oct10

Definitely should add the beautiful Brazilian film House of Sand.

Gabriel Faucher-Harrison

23Sep10

the seventh continent - michael haneke !

Jean-François Pissias

23Jul10

Cinema at its best!

debrah

8Jul10

oh, good! excellent list, NO O.J! You said it, Q -

Clarice the Specter

1Jul10

this is the real thing.

Hideous Bitch Princess

14Jun10

Where is "My Boss's Daughter" starring Ashton Kutcher? Great list besides that slip up though.

Fellaheen

10Jun10

If this is the "starter pack" what the hell is the "real thing"????

H. K. ‡

20May10

I think 'The Tree of Wooden Clogs' and possibly Cronenberg's 'Spider' should be on here

shahidullah

4May10

Amazing!!!

scape

3May10

Great List!!! So many more films to watch... I need more TIME!!!

Jean-Francois Pissias

27Mar10

Thank you for understanding the true cinema:ambiance and images.

Graveyard Poet

14Mar10

Contemplative cinema always makes me think of auteurs such as Tarkovsky (so it's good to see him on the list). Paris, Texas is probably my favorite film so I'm glad to see it on here, too. As far as Antonioni goes, my favorite has always been The Passenger (my favorite road movie, along with Paris, Texas). I would suggest adding it to the list. (Although I definitely dig the silent, moody dusk on the city montage at the end of L'Eclisse--it's a shame I didn't enjoy the film as much, what with the talents of Vitti and Delon. I never was fond of Antonioni's "malaise" trilogy or Red Desert, or Blow-Up, for that matter). Another two candidates as possible for contemplative cinema (except in a much less minimalistic and much more visceral way) are Paradjanov and Brakhage (my faves being, of course, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors and Dog Star Man). I've always considered myself a cinema connoisseur but your list has proven there is a vast, intriguing corpus that I've yet to experience. Kudos Carlo! I have a multitude of movies to seek out now.