People are different. There's no one size fits all approach.
I've always liked film but haven't always loved it or 'gotten' art films. Then one day, when I was a bit older (maybe late 20s?) I watched Kieslowski's 'Three Colors Blue' and became obsessed with it, with art film, with the spirituality of film, with this clever way of film-making, with European film, with world cinema and with everything that was out there that I had previously pigeon-holed as 'artsy' or 'pretentious'.
That was the gateway art film for me, it moved me beyond words and beyond what any film had done to me before - and I doubt that I would have taken the path I had if that film had been a Tarr or a Tarkovsky or a Jodorowsky. The appreciation for those directors came way after as I have and still am consuming every cinephilic dose of celluloid I can lay my hands on.
Others may become a cinephile after one Bela Tarr film. But for me it was something that was a little more rooted indrama that I could relate to. Even though I have probably since watched better films - ( some by Tarr and Tarkovsky too!), I'm just saying that I feel 'Three Colors Blue' did it for me. It broke the cinematic mould in my head.
I've always liked film but haven't always loved it or 'gotten' art films. Then one day, when I was a bit older (maybe late 20s?) I watched Kieslowski's 'Three Colors Blue' and became obsessed with it, with art film, with the spirituality of film, with this clever way of film-making, with European film, with world cinema and with everything that was out there that I had previously pigeon-holed as 'artsy' or 'pretentious'.
That was the gateway art film for me, it moved me beyond words and beyond what any film had done to me before - and I doubt that I would have taken the path I had if that film had been a Tarr or a Tarkovsky or a Jodorowsky. The appreciation for those directors came way after as I have and still am consuming every cinephilic dose of celluloid I can lay my hands on.
Others may become a cinephile after one Bela Tarr film. But for me it was something that was a little more rooted indrama that I could relate to. Even though I have probably since watched better films - ( some by Tarr and Tarkovsky too!), I'm just saying that I feel 'Three Colors Blue' did it for me. It broke the cinematic mould in my head.