observational

By: junixu

These films that I’ve watched tend to:

- closely examine day-to-day activities and social behavior more than usual
- involve emotionally heavy situations
- employ hyper-real camerawork or other techniques
- feel less forced and calculated; are theme-driven rather than plot-driven
- lack musical scoring (though not always)

• 01
  Quiet City
  Aaron Katz
• 02
  Into the Wild
  Sean Penn
• 03
  The Cake Eaters
  Mary Stuart Masterson
• 04
  Speak
  Jessica Sharzer
• 05
  The Beat That My Heart Skipped
  Jacques Audiard
• 06
  Junebug
  Phil Morrison
• 07
  Only Yesterday
  Isao Takahata
• 08
  Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
  Zhang Yimou
• 09
  Tokyo Godfathers
  Satoshi Kon
• 10
  Rachel Getting Married
  Jonathan Demme
• 11
  NIght on the Galactic Railroad
  Gisaburō Sugii
• 12
  Half Nelson
  Ryan Fleck
• 13
  The Class
  Laurent Cantet
• 14
  About Schmidt
  Alexander Payne
• 15
  Le quattro volte
  Michelangelo Frammartino
• 16
  Nobody Knows
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• 17
  Three Times
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 18
  The Wayward Cloud
  Tsai Ming-liang
• 19
  Beginners
  Mike Mills
• 20
  Pariah
  Dee Rees
• 21
  Submarine
  Richard Ayoade
• 22
  Flight of the Red Balloon
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 23
  Wendy and Lucy
  Kelly Reichardt
• 24
  Synecdoche, New York
  Charlie Kaufman
• 25
  Breathing
  Karl Markovics
• 26
  On War
  Bertrand Bonello
• 27
  Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
  Chantal Akerman
• 28
  Gummo
  Harmony Korine
• 29
  71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
  Michael Haneke
• 30
  Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
  Jasmila Žbanić
• 31
  The Kid with a Bike
  Jean-Pierre Dardenne
• 32
  Whale Rider
  Niki Caro
• 33
  The Bothersome Man
  Jens Lien
• 34
  The Nine Muses
  John Akomfrah
• 35
  A Scene at the Sea
  Takeshi Kitano
• 36
  15
  Royston Tan
• 37
  Magic Valley
  Jaffe Zinn
• 38
  Mommy, I'm Scared
  Reha Erdem
• 39
  We Need to Talk About Kevin
  Lynne Ramsay
• 40
  Afterschool
  Antonio Campos
• 41
  Goats
  Christopher Neil
• 42
  Happiness
  Agnès Varda
• 43
  Extraordinary Stories
  Mariano Llinás
• 44
  The Secret Nation
  Jorge Sanjinés
• 45
  Pine Flat
  Sharon Lockhart
• 46
  Double Tide
  Sharon Lockhart
• 47
  Fish Tank
  Andrea Arnold
• 48
  The Mourning Forest
  Naomi Kawase
• 49
  Alps
  Giorgos Lanthimos
• 50
  The Fourth Dimension
  Harmony Korine
• 51
  24 City
  Jia Zhangke
• 52
  A Brighter Summer Day
  Edward Yang