Essential cinema for higher conscious nourishment:
The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
The Hourglass Sanatorium (Wojciech Jerzy Has)
π (Darren Aronofsky)
Aylaqruh:hurqalyA (Tawd Dorenfeld)
There's a few for a start, films which aren't just mere entertainment and distraction but which feed something deeper.
Some of the above directors have made some other similarly significant art... except for Kubrick.. I can't understand how he could make such a profound symbolic masterpiece as 2001 and then go on to make such utter throwaway crap as 'A Clockwork Orange'. Aronofsky is a mixed bag with always excellent execution; Has' previous film was excellent; Jodorowsky always works deep symbolism into his work and made the best horror film I ever saw (Santa Sangre) but the above film is his standout and says more in a single frame than most films do in hours, my first viewing of ' The Holy Mountain' was such a mindblow that it entirely changed how I looked at cinema. I've not seen Dorenfeld's other features but the animation mentioned above is quite profound and set to excellent music.
Apparently I should watch some Ingmar Bergman, so "The Seventh Seal" may be watched tonight whilst I have a private cinema to use.
If anyone can point me towards other directors who make films which actually say something, even without words, then that would be great : I don't find much film that isn't just a waste of time and mind but there must be many hidden gems.
The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
The Hourglass Sanatorium (Wojciech Jerzy Has)
π (Darren Aronofsky)
Aylaqruh:hurqalyA (Tawd Dorenfeld)
There's a few for a start, films which aren't just mere entertainment and distraction but which feed something deeper.
Some of the above directors have made some other similarly significant art... except for Kubrick.. I can't understand how he could make such a profound symbolic masterpiece as 2001 and then go on to make such utter throwaway crap as 'A Clockwork Orange'. Aronofsky is a mixed bag with always excellent execution; Has' previous film was excellent; Jodorowsky always works deep symbolism into his work and made the best horror film I ever saw (Santa Sangre) but the above film is his standout and says more in a single frame than most films do in hours, my first viewing of ' The Holy Mountain' was such a mindblow that it entirely changed how I looked at cinema. I've not seen Dorenfeld's other features but the animation mentioned above is quite profound and set to excellent music.
Apparently I should watch some Ingmar Bergman, so "The Seventh Seal" may be watched tonight whilst I have a private cinema to use.
If anyone can point me towards other directors who make films which actually say something, even without words, then that would be great : I don't find much film that isn't just a waste of time and mind but there must be many hidden gems.