Cinema Seekers: 400 Greatest Films of Art and Spirituality

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Cinemaseekers.com is a website long familiar to many film buffs. It is a site dedicated primarily to spirituality, and is run by a man and a woman who are heavily influenced by Oskar Ernst Bernhardt (aka Abd-ru-shin), a sort of Grailist theosopher from what I can gather. But whatever the inspiration, their list of "100 Years of Art Cinema from a Spiritual Perspective," as they call it, is well worth perusing, if not pursuing. Cineastes may prefer it to other lists of spirituality in film. While there isn’t a lot of Eastern spirituality here, the listmakers seem non-denominational and non-dogmatic, and on the whole the list’s implicit definition of spirituality might be said to be more cerebral, truly ecumenical in the broadest sense, and perhaps closer to philosophy than religion.

The source: http://www.cinemaseekers.com/honor_roll.html

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  1. 1.
    The Gospel According to St. Matthew
    by Pier Paolo Pasolini

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  2. 2.
    Koyaanisqatsi - Life Out of Balance
    by Godfrey Reggio

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  3. 3.
    Powaqqatsi - Life in Transformation
    by Godfrey Reggio

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  4. 4.
    Naqoyqatsi
    by Godfrey Reggio

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  5. 5.
    The Mirror
    by Andrei Tarkovsky

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  6. 6.
    Au Hasard Balthazar (Criterion Collection)
    by Robert Bresson

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  7. 7.
    Stalker: A Film by Andrei Tarkovsky
    by Andrei Tarkovsky

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  8. 8.
    The Seventh Seal - Criterion Collection
    by Ingmar Bergman

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  9. 9.
    The Color of Pomegranates
    by Sergei Parajanov

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  10. 10.
    Hail Mary
    by Jean-Luc Godard

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  11. 13.
    Mother and Son
    by Aleksandr Sokurov

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  12. 14.
    Mouchette - Criterion Collection
    by Robert Bresson

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  13. 15.
    Kagemusha - Criterion Collection
    by Akira Kurosawa

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  14. 16.
    Franz Schubert - Winterreise & Over the Top with Franz
    by Klaus Lindemann

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  15. 17.
    Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
    by Danièle Huillet

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  16. 18.
    Werckmeister Harmonies
    by Béla Tarr

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  17. 19.
    Nostalghia (Original Italian)
    by Andrei Tarkovsky

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  18. 20.
    Persona
    by Ingmar Bergman

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    Mothlight (Brakhage)

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    Edipo re (1967, Pasolini)

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  21. 26.
    Ugetsu - Criterion Collection
    by Kenji Mizoguchi

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  22. 27.
    8 1/2 - Criterion Collection

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  24. 30.
    Ashik-Kerib (1988)
    by Sergei Paradzhanov

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  25. 31.
    Father and Son
    by Aleksandr Sokurov

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  26. 32.
    A Man Escaped
    by Robert Bresson

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  28. 34.
    Diary of a Country Priest - Criterion Collection
    by Robert Bresson

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  29. 35.
    Ran - Criterion Collection
    by Akira Kurosawa

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  30. 36.
    L' Argent
    by Robert Bresson

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    Toby Dammit (segment in Histoires Extraordinaires)
    by Federico Fellini

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  32. 38.
    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
    by F.W. Murnau

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  33. 39.
    Red (Three Colors Trilogy)
    by Krzysztof Kieslowski

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  34. 40.
    Spirit of the Beehive - Criterion Collection
    by Víctor Erice

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  35. 41.
    Time Regained
    by Raoul Ruiz

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  36. 44.
    The Elephant Man

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  37. 45.
    Orson Welles' Othello
    by Orson Welles

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  38. 46.
    Grigori Kozintsev's Hamlet
    by Iosif Shapiro

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  39. 49.
    The Virgin Spring - Criterion Collection
    by Ingmar Bergman

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MestnyiGeroi
New York City

That's it. — 21 weeks ago

The original list currently stops at 412.


MestnyiGeroi
New York City

Oops. — 21 weeks ago

Looks like the original list includes Sokurov’s Days of Eclipse twice. I will keep this in the list for the time being, redundant or no.


Untitled — 21 weeks ago

Wow, this looks like it’s going to be a great list; i’ll have to check out the website, thanks.