Films like Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould.

Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993) reads as Neutral, measured, measured biopic / experimental, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Calendar (1993) poster
1. Calendar1993

Keeps the heightened unreality and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Nouvelle Vague (1990) poster
2. Nouvelle Vague1990

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Bicycle Sighs (1990) poster
3. Bicycle Sighs1990

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Klimt (2006) poster
4. Klimt2006

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Passion (1982) poster
5. Passion1982

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Jester (1987) poster
6. The Jester1987

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Death for Five Voices (1995) poster
7. Death for Five Voices1995

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Hamoun (1990) poster
8. Hamoun1990

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Salaam Cinema (1995) poster
9. Salaam Cinema1995

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a bone-dry seriousness.

Notebook on Cities and Clothes (1989) poster
10. Notebook on Cities and Clothes1989

Keeps the heightened unreality and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Family Viewing (1987) poster
11. Family Viewing1987

Keeps the heightened unreality and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Crumb (1994) (1994) poster
12. Crumb1994

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a bone-dry seriousness.

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