spiritual enrichment

By: rajiv ibrahim

quoting tarkovsky in his interview about art

“before defining art or any concept we must answer a far broader question: whats the meaning of man’s life on earth ? maybe we are here to enhance ourselves spiritually, if our life tends to this spiritual enrichment then art is a means to get there. This, of course, in accordance with my definition of life. art should help man in this process” Andrei Tarkovsky

for this reason ( and this is one of my very fave reason why i love watching films fyi), here’s some films that gave me spiritual enrichment

• 01
  The House is Black
  Forugh Farrokhzad
• 02
  Mother Dao, the Turtlelike
  Vincent Monnikendam
• 03
  La soufrière
  Werner Herzog
• 04
  Diary of a Country Priest
  Robert Bresson
• 05
  The Wind Will Carry Us
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 06
  The Thin Red Line
  Terrence Malick
• 07
  The Word
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 08
  Syndromes and a Century
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• 09
  Encounters at the End of the World
  Werner Herzog
• 10
  Stalker
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 11
  Au hasard Balthazar
  Robert Bresson
• 12
  Wings of Desire
  Wim Wenders
• 13
  Synecdoche, New York
  Charlie Kaufman
• 14
  The War Game
  Peter Watkins
• 15
  Baraka
  Ron Fricke
• 16
  Come and See
  Elem Klimov
• 17
  Mother and Son
  Aleksandr Sokurov
• 18
  The Son
  Jean-Pierre Dardenne
• 19
  Late Spring
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 20
  The Sacrifice
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 21
  Andrei Rublev
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 22
  Night and Fog
  Alain Resnais
• 23
  Children of a Lesser God
  Randa Haines
• 24
  Hiroshima, mon amour
  Alain Resnais
• 25
  Breathless
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 26
  Close-Up
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 27
  Into the Wild
  Sean Penn
• 28
  Alive
  Frank Marshall
• 29
  Full Frontal
  Steven Soderbergh
• 30
  Touching the Void
  Kevin Macdonald
• 31
  Fantastic Planet
  René Laloux
• 32
  Winter Light
  Ingmar Bergman
• 33
  Krakatau
  Mariusz Grzegorzek
• 34
  Heaven and Earth
  Michael Pilz
• 35
  Le quattro volte
  Michelangelo Frammartino