Ambient films

Definitely Herzog's docs.

(WATMM's quote function on mobile is all fucked up lately!)

Also,

Lawrence of Arabia.

Zidane

2001 / Barry Lyndon

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Mother & Son by Sokurov

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119711/

As far as I can remember, not much happens in the film. You just see two people. And it has beautiful shots.

https://www.google.be/search?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&tbo=d&biw=1280&bih=890&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=%22Mat+i+syn%22&oq=%22Mat+i+syn%22&gs_l=img.3..0i24.238530.239753.0.239906.2.2.0.0.0.0.135.230.1j1.2.0...0.0...1c.1.egD02v-NMFA

lush

How about this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iey9YIbra2U

Man with a movie camera.

Love me some Barry Lyndon!

I'd imagine Kitten Party would be pretty ambient.

http://www.amazon.com/Kitten-Party-Kittens/dp/B0036EH3WA

Fata Morgana (full film on youtube)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Ost05hKyA

the first 20 minutes of Nausicaa has hardly any dialogue, and beautiful animation.

jan svankmajer

Zidane is great. There's a lot of films like this in the contemporary art world. A lot are crap but there are some gems, as well.

  On 12/21/2012 at 4:09 PM, SPD² said:

I'd imagine Kitten Party would be pretty ambient.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Kitten-Party-Kittens/dp/B0036EH3WA

flol ambient as fuck

Sling Blade

A guy I know interviewed Chuck Norris for a movie preview. This really happened.

Guy: Chuck, what's it like to know that you can kick the ass of anyone you meet?

Chuck: (Pause) You know, it's comforting.

  On 12/22/2012 at 6:19 AM, A/D said:

A guy I know interviewed Chuck Norris for a movie preview. This really happened.

 

Guy: Chuck, what's it like to know that you can kick the ass of anyone you meet?

Chuck: (Pause) You know, it's comforting.

haha, awesome!

Early(er) Anh Hung Tran films, particularily the vietnamese trilogy - Vertical Ray of the Sun, ...Everything byNaomi Kawase - Shara, Nanayo, ...

peter tscherkassky's films

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yASwqIWjaVI

Stalker (probably the definition of a 'ambient film')

Blade Runner

Waltz With Bashir

There Will Be Blood

Apocalypse Now (towards the ending)

Pans Labyrint

Not sure will qualify all these as ambient films (except Stalker). But they all have quieter/slower atmosphere building scenes. As far as I remember.

probably mentioned before, but meek's cutoff

  On 12/22/2012 at 6:23 PM, Atop said:

peter tscherkassky's films

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yASwqIWjaVI

very cool. thanks for posting

Five Dedicated to Ozu by Abbas Kiarostami.

Picked this up on DVD recently but haven't watched it yet.

Pretty much seems to be Kitten Party for the highbrow arty type:

Five sequences : 1) A piece of driftwood on the seashore, carried about by the waves 2) People walking on the seashore. The oldest ones stop by, look at the sea, then go away 3) Blurry shapes on a winter beach. A herd of dogs. A love story 4) A group of loud ducks cross the image, in one direction then the other 5) A pond, at night. Frogs improvising a concert. A storm, then the sunrise.

http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0409965/

If you want to go more mainstream, Unbreakable by M. Night Shyamalan is pretty ambient, very slow pacing etc.

Apart from that: Kubricks 2001 and all films by Terrence Malick.

some excellent posts here fellas, lovely stuff.

Apocalypse Now Redux of course

Akira Kurosawa's Dreams

Werner Herzog - Aguirre: The Wrath Of God