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 to religion.

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

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

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

  4. 4.
    Naqoyqatsi
    by Godfrey Reggio

  5. 5.
    The Mirror
    by Andrey Tarkovskiy

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

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

  8. 9.
    The Color of Pomegranates
    by Ron Holloway

  9. 10.
    Hail Mary
    by Jean-Luc Godard

  10. 12.
    The Phantom of Liberty
    by Luis Buñuel

  11. 13.
    Mother and Son
    by Aleksandr Sokurov

  12. 14.
    Mouchette (The Criterion Collection)
    by Robert Bresson

  13. 15.
    Kagemusha (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa

  14. 16.
    Franz Schubert - Winterreise / Over the Top with Franz
    by David Alden

  15. 17.
    Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
    by Jean-Marie Straub

  16. 18.
    Werckmeister Harmonies

  17. 19.
    Nostalghia (Original Italian)

  18. 20.
    Persona
    by Ingmar Bergman

  19. 21.
    Mothlight
    by Stan Brakhage

  20. 22.
    Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Special Edition)
    by Sergei Paradjanov

  21. 25.
    ?
    Edipo re (1967, Pasolini)

  22. 26.
    Ugetsu (The Criterion Collection)
    by Kenji Mizoguchi

  23. 27.
    8 1/2 (The Criterion Collection)
    by Federico Fellini

  24. 29.
    The Magic Flute (The Criterion Collection)
    by Ingmar Bergman

  25. 30.
    Ashik-Kerib (1988)
    by Sergei Paradzhanov

  26. 31.
    Father and Son
    by Aleksandr Sokurov

  27. 32.
    A Man Escaped
    by Robert Bresson

  28. 33.
    The Milky Way (The Criterion Collection)
    by Julien Gaurichon

  29. 34.
    Diary of a Country Priest (The Criterion Collection)
    by Robert Bresson

  30. 35.
    Ran (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa

  31. 36.
    L' Argent
    by Robert Bresson

  32. 37.
    ?
    Toby Dammit (segment in Histoires Extraordinaires)
    by Federico Fellini

  33. 38.
    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
    by F.W. Murnau

  34. 39.
    Red

  35. 40.
    Spirit of the Beehive (The Criterion Collection)
    by Víctor Erice

  36. 41.
    Time Regained
    by Raoul Ruiz

  37. 43.
    M. Hulot's Holiday (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jacques Tati

  38. 44.
    The Elephant Man

  39. 46.
    Grigori Kozintsev's Hamlet
    by Grigori Kozintsev

  40. 49.
    The Virgin Spring (The Criterion Collection)
    by Ingmar Bergman

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Created by MestnyiGeroi on Jul 06, 2008.
 

Comments

That's it. — 3 years ago

The original list currently stops at 412.


Oops. — 3 years 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 — 3 years ago

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




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