Yeah I love foreign films and it's the only list I found that included the Turkish film About Dry Grasses (by the director of Once Upon A Time in Anatolia, another stunner from 2011).
Another excellent example of slow cinema is Once Upon A Time In Anatolia. The long night shots of immense fields of windblown grass illuminated by the flickering light of a couple flashlights and some lamps are like Van Gogh paintings. The movie is all atmosphere, but it's entrancing nonetheless.
Goodbye, Dragon Inn is also great. The movie itself isn't very long, but the long shots are pure slow cinema, stillness made into an aesthetic sublime.
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Yeah I love foreign films and it's the only list I found that included the Turkish film About Dry Grasses (by the director of Once Upon A Time in Anatolia, another stunner from 2011).
Another excellent example of slow cinema is Once Upon A Time In Anatolia. The long night shots of immense fields of windblown grass illuminated by the flickering light of a couple flashlights and some lamps are like Van Gogh paintings. The movie is all atmosphere, but it's entrancing nonetheless.
Goodbye, Dragon Inn is also great. The movie itself isn't very long, but the long shots are pure slow cinema, stillness made into an aesthetic sublime.