Slow Cinema - Tsai, Lynch, etc.

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@Ellotus13 2 жыл бұрын

I've watched this around six times now, this is the absolute best video on slow cinema. This pushed me over from being slow cinema fan to slow cinema obsessive. Thank you so much for making this!

@robind6179 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm glad you got something out of it. I'm still pretty obsessed with slow cinema too. Lately I've been enjoying Bela Tarr, and going through the last few by Tsai and Ceylan I hadn't seen.

@Ellotus13 2 жыл бұрын

@@robind6179 I've been trying to start Werckmeister Harmonies for a week now but every time something comes in between! Lately I've been enjoying my slow cinema in short form due to work and life being sort of hectic, but I think that's one of those areas that should be explored more. Been thinking about starting my own channel and opening with that!

@rohanbeer1654 6 ай бұрын

Bela Tarr, Lav Diaz, and Chantal Akerman are also notable slow cinema filmmakers

@misterpizaloner 10 ай бұрын

I absolutely loved this video, absolutely the best one out there

@juliamaxfalcon5483 3 жыл бұрын

Great video. Your channel is fantastic

@KajiCarson 3 жыл бұрын

Oh boy, I really love Shane Meadows ('Dead Man's Shoes' and 'This Is England' are both phenomenal films), but I wasn't aware that he'd recently made a mini-series. Bless you for the vidya!

@robind6179 3 жыл бұрын

It's pretty heavy! But very good. I haven't seen Dead Man's Shoes - I'll chase that up

@nodice8312 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your insightful work...it is not entertainment...it makes me think....

@Lmaoh5150 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful video!

@TheRagingPeen 9 ай бұрын

Elephant sitting still is by far the best film I've ever seen - can't believe it was a debut.

@jhwa02 3 жыл бұрын

Kiarostami is great. Certified Copy, Taste of Cherry, and Close-Up in particular. Certified Copy really made me think about my relationship to art, authenticity, and how the subjectivity inherent in perspective and interpretation shape definition and meaning.

@robind6179 3 жыл бұрын

Great, thanks for the recommendations Jack. I bought Close-up years ago but still haven't watched it. I'll get onto them.

@neiljohns245 3 жыл бұрын

Great video, as usual. I hadn't really considered that 'slow cinema' is a genre. I've not seen any of the films on your 'very slow' list, but have seen a lot of the 'slow' list, so I'm not averse to the concept of a film with a glacial pace. I was going to recommend Edward Yang's Yi Yi, but I see from the comments that you've already seen it. You've given me some interesting films to investigate, which is always welcome. Thanks, man.

@robind6179 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Neil. To be honest, most of the movies on the "slow" list are much better than most of the movies on the "very slow" list. But if you're interested, I'd definitely recommend trying a Tsai Ming-liang (Goodbye Dragon Inn or The Hole). Yeah I've just watched my first three Yangs recently, and liked them a lot.

@JC-ot3kb 3 жыл бұрын

Great video. Good to see new content on this channel after appreciating your content on stuff like Loveless and Burning. Big fan of slow cinema, think the final films of Bela Tarr may be some of my favorites. He actually mentored Hu Bo, and felt remorseful for doing too little prior to his suicide. Thought for awhile the uprise of meditative rhythym in films may just be filmmakers aspiring for a Tarkovskian reputation. But after indulging them a bit I think many of them are trying to achieve thoughts and ideas actually quite different from Tarkovsky's spiritualist themes. I think people like Andrey Zvyagintsev for example is more interested in humanist themes and showing us the uglier side of our nature. Loveless in particular feels as cautionary as it is tragic. Some films/filmmakers you may want to try: -Lee Chang-dongs films (esp. Secret Sunshine) -Edward Yang films -"Long Day's Journey Into Night" by Bi Gan -"Paterson" by Jim Jarmusch (doesn't 100% fit the bill of the video but is very simple, quiet, meditative, etc)

@robind6179 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment James. I love Lee Chang-dong and Jarmusch! I've seen all but one or two and haven't disliked any. I particularly like Paterson. They could easily have been included in this video. I've seen three of Edward Yang's just recently, and really liked them too. Terrorizers, Yi Yi and A Brighter Summer Day. I only read recently, after seeing AESS, about Hu Bo's suicide. Very sad. I didn't know Tarr was his mentor. I haven't seen any Bi Gan or Bela Tarr so I'll add them to my list. That's a really interesting point about the distinction between slow movies that are harsh and realist (Zvyagintsev, Lee?, Hu Bo?) and slow movies that are transcendent or spiritual (Tarkovsky, Lowery).

@mrsoprano3848 3 жыл бұрын

Bella Tarr,Andrei Tarkovsky are one of my all time favourite director

@booon-booon 2 жыл бұрын

v good video. i like your deliniation on stuff that is slow vs slow cinema, as i think the two get mixed up a lot. there's a book on tsai ming-liang called Tsai Ming-Liang and a cinema of slowness by Song Hwee Lim, draws the line in a very specific era/movement that i think is very useful, showing around the mid 90s to early 2000s as its starting point, with artists like Bela Tarr and Tsai really originating the style drawn a bit from movements like italian neorealism and the late 60s/early 70s art cinema of Tarkovsky, though it draws a big distinction in that Slow Cinema, like slow food and slow travel, is an intentional movement away from the high pace of capitalist life, with technology and convenience growing faster and faster and attention spans getting shorter. v cool and would def recommend checking out that book, as well as director Apichatpong Weerasethakul who I don't think you mentioned, though he is a master of this style

@the3rdpillblog934 2 жыл бұрын

If you haven't seen it: Shinji Aoyama's EUREKA (2000).

@jackkecskes2698 5 ай бұрын

One of the best films of all time

@-rush-011-2 3 жыл бұрын

Check out Pedro Costa. His fountainhas trilogy is a good start, but the second movie in that trilogy, In Vandas Room is where his style really develops. There is more dialogue than other slow cinema, but he is working with non-actors so the story revolves around their lives and memories. You get a real sense of time as his style is more observational and free flowing.

@robind6179 3 жыл бұрын

Ooh I haven't seen any of his. I'll check them out, thanks.

@-rush-011-2 3 жыл бұрын

@@robind6179 Horse Money and Vitalina Varela are masterpieces, but are somewhat sequels to the previous films :p Even Casa de Lava could be considered essential to understanding the origins of the immigrant and lower class subjects of later movies. It's a retelling of I Walked With a Zombie, and ties into an overarching concept of how to step into a foreign world.

@KnowledgeVariable 2 жыл бұрын

cool look

@cesardemoi8602 3 жыл бұрын

Please check out Tran Anh Hung's Vietnamese trilogy, especially Cyclo, for a great example of the type of cinema you discuss here. Also, Weerasethakul's Tropical Malady and Syndromes and a Century.

@casual_man6240 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing work and recommendations, i´d suggest to watch Long day´s journey into night and Kaili Blues from director Bi Gan, I find his work to be a really interesting take on slow cinema

@MY-lo6cg 2 жыл бұрын

I recommend works of Carlos Reygadas. A good place to start is his first feature film - Japón (2001). This movie has fundamentally changed the way I look at movies. His movies would probably fall into the slow category per your analysis. They have rather stretched, gradual narratives and are interspersed with long takes, close ups, shots of nature.

@robind6179 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for the recommendation. I've heard of Post Tenebras Lux, but I haven't seen any of Reygadas' movies. I'll chase down Japón.

@juliamaxfalcon5483 3 жыл бұрын

Taste of Cherry by Kiarostami is one of my favorites (and it's for free on youtube :)

@robind6179 3 жыл бұрын

Ooh thanks Julia. I have a dvd lying around of Close-Up too. I'll watch them both asap.

@adversitycartoons4050 2 жыл бұрын

Great video! I’m very interested in hearing your thoughts on Edward Yang, to me he makes ‘slow cinema’ and is one of my favorites

@robind6179 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I've seen three of Edward Yang's - Yi Yi, the Terrorizers and A Brighter Summer Day. I really liked all three. Particularly the Terrorizers actually. I must watch more of his. Is there one you'd recommend next?

@catmatism 3 жыл бұрын

How about jeanne dielman, 23, quai du commerce 1080 bruxelles?

@asapfilms2519 2 жыл бұрын

Lav Diaz

@aslmusicfilmspublishing4057 2 жыл бұрын

I feel you have missed one of the great film makers Satyajit Ray. All his films are slow, specially the trilogy - The Apu. Please check it out.

@robind6179 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah good point. I've seen a few by Ray, including the Apu trilogy, and loved them. I'm not sure why I didn't think of them for this

@tyrusquiroz8810 2 жыл бұрын

Hey, could you perhaps provide a small list of films which could serve as a nice introduction to slow cinema?

@robind6179 2 жыл бұрын

I'm no expert. There are lots of slow cinema directors I haven't watched yet. Did you want to start with some more accessible (i.e. not extremely slow) ones? If so, something like Drive by Refn, 2001 by Kubrick or Roma by Cuaron could be a good start. As James mentioned in these comments, Jim Jarmusch (Paterson, Down by Law) and Lee Chang Dong (Burning, Peppermint Candy) are also great and relatively accessible. They have elements of slow cinema but still plenty of plot and action. But if you want to dive straight into the really slow stuff, you could start with Solaris (Tarkovsky), Goodbye Dragon Inn (Tsai) and Werckmeister Harmonies (Tarr).