Here's two films I recommend for those trying to take it slow. #film #cinema #videoessay References - • Under the Influence: I... www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdAig... • Chantal Akerman on JEA...
One of my favorite recent slow cinema discoveries is Landscape in the Mist, from 1988 by Theo Angelopoulos. Stylistically, it’s reminiscent of Dreyer and Tarkovsky, but it is a wholly unique and beautiful cinematic statement, using extremely elaborate long takes to guide us through each scene and emotional beat with total precision.
Chantal Akerman's cinema is so, so good. Really changed my perspective on the medium. The way she every moment rest... no hurries, not even forced entertainment -- In her movies it's ok to feel exhausted, or to get bored from time to time. It's like a different type of slow cinema, where you actually need to feel every second of it and make your conclusions about what you feel while watching the movie. I especially feel identified with what you say at the beginning, about sitting still. Maybe these movies give us what we are missing nowadays... how we constantly need to keep ourselves busy --- we aren't that far from Jeanne Dielman's character, lol, the only difference is that she's more calculated. If you are willing to give this type of slow cinema a chance, then you'll be provided with the silence we lack of nowadays. Great video too, I'm gonna check the other films you mentioned.
Great video! I'm including a list of movies mentioned in the video just for reference so yall can add them to your watch list: Chantal Ackerman: 1) Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles Joana Hogg: 1) The Souvenir 2) The Souvenir II 3) The Eternal Daughter Honorable mentions at the start of the video: 1) Songs from the Second Floor 2) Days (2020) 3) Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 4) Memoria
Maybe this movie isnt quite what you're talking about because its still got a pretty tense mystery its built around, but the 2018 movie Burning is really good, and its mostly just casual dialogue between characters with subtle hints about what might be going on.
the film Fittcarraldo (1982) by the great German director Werner Herzog does this excellently. The film moves with the same slow momentum of actual life, as we follow an incongruous steam ship and passengers down the amazon river, on a quest to spread opera to the deepest parts of peruvian rainforest. as an onlooker, you feel apart of the motion, you feel as though you have entered the surreal universe of the film itself, as though you are one of the crew-members. it alters your perception of time, allowing nights to pass seamlessly into day, as though you have rested. I love it and would recommend to those who like to move along the narrative in real-time. So much attention to detail is paid; the film really sticks with you.
I'm a huge fan of a still frame and letting things develop at a pace more akin to life. It doesn't work for everyone or in every movie, but when it works it really washes over you and stays with you for quite some time. When I watched Memoria, it almost made me uncomfortable with how long it would linger on a shot. But over the duration of the film, you get used to this pace and all of a sudden you get lulled in by the atmosphere and notice the tiniest details in the frame. A little surprised by the choice to include The Souvenir here, as I actually think the scenes cut rather quickly from location to location and from moment to moment. But this was a dope video nonetheless!
I don't know if you can consider this what you call "Low and slow" but i love "The naked island" from Kanedo Shindo, but the cuts aren't as completely still as some examples on the video (because yeah its not really clear) so to name one iwould say "GoodBye dragon Inn". Good subject overall, thanks
Thanks for sharing the slow films, that can sometimes push you emotionally! We did one in the mood of Rope…it’s call The Last Passport. We have been blown away by how folks love the different pace. Thanks again.
Thank you for the video! And I am grateful to a YT algorithm for showing me this. I needed exactly that. To see filmmaking from a different perspective
i love your channel! i recommend bleak night by yung soon-hyun, 2010. i read somewhere that it was his directorial debut. ITS AWESOME. it's slow paced and builds up till the end. its about three bestfriends, who have an imperfect friendship. one of them commits suicide and his grieving father tries to reach out and find out why he died. the colours, the aesthetic, the plot everything about it is indeed bleak, but also amazing. its so well done, i can't love it enough. my all time favourite. please do a video on it 🙆‼️
I do love some Tsai Ming-Liang - I did a personal double-feature of the King Hu classic Dragon Inn (definitely *not* in this style) and Tsai Ming-Liang's Goodbye, Dragon Inn. I recommend you try that sometime. And you reminded me that I have a copy of Days I need to make time for!
I love how Noah Baumbach tells stories. My favorit slow movie of his is the Meyerowitz Stories. It is not as dramatic as say, Marriage Story which is a great movie in its own right. But Meyerowitz is something else. I play it often when I need to be in my room and do chores.
You should really check out The Plains by David Easteal. Maybe one of the best slow cinema films from recent years and directed by a Melbourne based director. Great video btw!
in my opinion slow cinema is always lovely when it builds up to something or has something new and refreshing to say. otherwise i just feel like it's a complete waste of time, especially when the acting is great and the shots are beautiful. i feel like that's such a waste of time and talent
8 1/2 is similar in that it does not explain everything and lets the audience make up their own minds about meaning, and it is also a fairly long film, but it is not slow, it is a very busy film, busy, busy busy, but excellent.
Lav Diaz is one of my favourites, and I can highly recommend Norte The End Of History. Novel-like, inspired by Dostoevsky, but especially how he lets life happen on screen in the most uncomfortable situations.
@@samjrankin 'Wavelength' is a classic of the structuralist strain of experimental filmmaking that developed primarily in the U.S. and to some extent in Britain in the Sixties and Seventies. It was made and premiered in 1967, so was one of the very first of this type of production. I find it excruciating to sit through, not because of its duration and unusual conceptual design, but because of the electronic soundtrack which rises to truly uncomfortable levels during the film's progression. Michael Snow, incidentally, was Canadian, but filmed 'Wavelength' in New York.
I wonder if you might like Kelly Reichardt’s movies. A lot of her films are considered slow cinema. I haven’t seen anything else than this, but Certain Women (2016) was a fantastic movie and a great example of slow cinema.
I've only just gotten to know Kelly Richard's work - I watched First Cow recently and loved it, it was so tender and funny. Definitely will check out Certain Women next.
anti micheal-bay films is fairly accurate although, micheal bay does not deserve to be mentioned that much without mentioning that he does not deserve to be mentioned that much. and that is too much effort after all. so slow movie it is.
Are you sure you have seen these films? It could just be a mistake, but you mentioned Chantal Akerman;s first feature Jeanne Dielman etc, when Je Tu Il Elle is 1 hour and 26 minutes long, and came out the year before. Interesting video other than that.
@@samjrankin I figured that was the case. I haven't seen it either, but I looked it up at imdb. Anyway, thanks for letting me know about a bunch of films I have never heard of.
Good video, even though I completely disagree with just about everything in it. This type of cinema is the preserve of those who don't have the talent to make something compelling and then call it avant garde to hide that failure.
1) nobody calls slow cinema avant garde. It has existed long before you did. 2) Define compelling. You are arbitrarily defining the whole principle as not compelling, and then retro-engineering insinuations about the thought process of people making such things to justify your own perspective when you haven't even bothered developing one. It's just arrogance poorly disguised as criticism.
Chantal Ackerman: 1) Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles Joana Hogg: 1) The Souvenir 2) The Souvenir II 3) The Eternal Daughter Honorable mentions at the start of the video: 1) Songs from the Second Floor 2) Days (2020) 3) Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 4) Memoria
I'm all for anti-Michael Bay films. I'm so tired of the virtually endless river of sewage pouring out of Hollywood in the U.S. with superheros and numerous sequels. I'm being a bit harsh, I realize, as there are still some good films being made, but they are certainly the exception. I want a film that makes me think and feel, rather than trying to numb my brain with dazzling special effects.
Slow cinema is most the easy and lazy method of filming and yet for the critics this is most artistic film genre. This is complete nonsense. And you, film video essay makers youtubers, you didn't care about this movie by Chantel Akerman. Until it was chosen as the "best movie" All of a sudden, all movie youtubers started to commemorate this movie. You're making me nauseous! Because you have no opinions and tastes of your own!
I was defintiely made aware of Jeanne from the Sight and Sound poll, so yeah, I guess jumping on the bandwagon a bit! I'm very happy to have my opionion and tastes changed and challanged all the time - I still feel a little wide eyed when it comes to cinema, and really appreciate that there's so many films and filmmakers to discover. Thanks for giving your opinion, I appreciate all sides to films like these and appreciate your input.
"Slow cinema is the most easy and lazy method of filming". Already you are 1) Insinuating that simplicity equals laziness and that that's the reason why people do or don't do things a certain way just because that's easier for you than having actual arguments 2) Equating simplicity with lack if craftmanship, which is an entirely puerile view that making things more elaborate and showy equals a better, more poignant or purposeful result, when it's actually the complete opposite. Also that logic, or lack there of, implodes the moment you think about it for like five seconds, which you clearly didn't do. 3) "For the critics it's the most artistic genre". No one even said that, and if someone did, I'm willing to bet thet'd have far better reasons than yours for why it's not. As for the rest, maybe people did start getting interested in a current for newfound academic recognition. So what? that's bad because that means their opinion are not genuine? Why? Because yours is? God forbid someone wants about widening their taste, much better to pull out great arguments such as yours? Yeah, nauseous all right
