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Today we continue our exploration of slow movies, focusing on films that are worth savoring. 

Meditative And Marvelous

The Straight Story (1999): When you’re David Lynch, it’s pretty tough to make a wild left turn—your whole career is one giant left turn away from filmmaking convention. But the legendary avant-garde director shot straight on this G-rated picture about an old man driving cross-country on a lawn mower. The picture moves about as fast as a riding mower: not very. But it’s a sweet film, a radical bit of normalcy for Lynch, and a road movie well-acted enough to earn the late Richard Farnsworth an Oscar nom.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968): Straddling the boundary between art film and sci-fi epic, Stanley Kubrick’s space-age fantasia is loaded with arresting images. The legendary opening, with the apes and the bone—would you really want that passage hurried? »

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Juliette Binoche in Blue

Photo: Miramax Home Entertainment In 2005 Crash was a film I could respect for what it attempted to do in terms of telling a racially charged story, but the coincidence factor was all wrong. The film seemed to exist in order to fulfill the coincidence at the end of the film as opposed to the story being a result of the coincidence. The largest problem with this was that the film itself depended on that ending for its emotional punch. Sure, there were a few things here and there to supply the audience with something to think about along the way, but the film's heavy reliance on the coincidence caused the audience to piece the story together for themselves so by the time it all ended you already knew what was going to happen. This removed almost all of the emotion the film attempted to gain and for me, »

- Brad Brevet

2 articles from 2009