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films with a similar vibe to this?

posted 13 years ago by pfr_77
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just, this feeling that's sort of meditative and sacred
emphasis on the "sacred"
it's really hard to describe and it just feels... different. it's so rarely found in any medium. just something very specific that i get when i think about them.

the only other that I can come up with off the top of my head is Parajanov's Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors... I think Herzog's Nosferatu may have it as well but I need to watch it again.

[–] Makalli 13 years ago

Ordet.

Religious and visually stunning.

[–] pfr_77 13 years ago

Ah, I've been meaning to watch that for at least a year now. I'll have to do it soon.

[–] PillowRock 12 years ago

Of course, while we're of the subject of Dreyer, I think that you have to include La Passion de Jeanne D'Arc ("The Passion of Joan of Arc").

[–] hotspurpagg 12 years ago

Most of Andrei Tarkovsky's films, especially Andrei Rublev and Nostalghia.

[–] pfr_77 12 years ago

I watched Stalker recently and loved it. I actually have Nostalghia sitting right next to me and Andrei Rublev arriving tomorrow. I'm looking forward to watching both. Even before watching Takovsky's films in whole, everything I saw or read about him or his work pointed to them fitting in with what I was looking for in this topic.

[–] Captain_Augustus_McCrae 12 years ago

Aguirre: The Wrath of God.

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[–] panemique 12 years ago

Maybe Rashomon?

[–] pfr_77 12 years ago

Aguirre: The Wrath of God.

I looooooooooooooooooooooooooooove Werner Herzog. I'm ashamed to say though that aside from a few of the recent documentaries I haven't seen anything outside of the Aguirre - Fitzcarraldo range yet.

maybe just maybe Fires On The Plain, but that's reaching, and is pretty esoteric as far as 'sacred' goes.

I haven't heard of this. I'll have to check it out, thanks.

Maybe Rashomon?

I don't think so. I only saw it once well over a year ago though so my mind may change when I watch it again. Kurosawa has made some very special films.

[–] !!!deleted!!! (14789810) 12 years ago

A film with a similar vibe in its themes of mortality would be the Coen brothers' No Country for Old Men.

Order of Cinema 77

[–] RaoulAkhtar 11 years ago

The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)
Aguirre, Wrath of God (Herzog)
Metropolis (Lang)
Day of Wrath (Dreyer)
Wild Strawberries (also by Bergman)
Ordet (Dreyer)
No Country for Old Men (Coen brothers)

[–] richard-III 11 years ago

- Someone already mentioned 'Ordet' - there are two versions: Dreyer's (1955) and Gustav Molander's (1943).

- I'll mention 'Satyricon' (Fellini), based on fragments of Petronius Arbiter's ancient Roman manuscript.
Why? Because, just like with Bergman, Dreyer and Kurosawa you'll dive into another time, with other morals.
'Satyricon' is the classic mural, where 'Det Sjunde Inseglet' was Bergman's medieval tapestry. When watching it for the first time, 'Satyricon' shocked me because I could not understand the characters's motives for one bit, it was all very barbaric to me.

- I once also saw a 'mystery play' on television, a medieval drama which is always a christian tale about Christ and the Judgement's Day, when all die and every soul goes to either heaven or hell. It's also called 'passion play' or 'miracle play'.

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