Long passages carrying no dialogue at all, where the film trusts image, sound and duration to do the interpretive work.
2001: A Space Odyssey1968 · Stanley Kubrick★ 5.0 · 1Kubrick cut the explanatory narration before release and left the opening and closing stretches without a word spoken — a bone, a waltz, an eye, and the audience doing the reading.
Spirited Away2001 · Hayao MiyazakiThe train sequence is minutes of water, light and a girl sitting still: Miyazaki's ma, and the reason the noise everywhere else in the film lands.The motif, its definition and every per-film note are editorial work by this site’s members — nothing on this page is imported.
