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UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (Apichatpongg) 0

THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY (Peter Strickland, 2014) 1

LET THE CORPSES TAN (Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani, 2017) 2

ANOMALISA (Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson, 2015) 3

SONG TO SONG (Terrence Malick, 2017) 4

SPIRITED AWAY (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001) 5

VENDREDI SOIR (Claire Denis, 2002) 6

THE HEADLESS WOMAN (Lucrecia Martel, 2008) 7

BLUE (Derek Jarman, 1993) 8

BATTLE OF THE SEXES (Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton, 2017) 9

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Your guide to movies that also work as ASMR

SONG TO SONG (Terrence Malick, 2017) Terrence Malick’s current prolific streak (six films in eight years) overlaps with the rise of ASMR. Does the press-averse director draw inspiration from YouTube? Since 2011’s The Tree of Life, Malick has been doubling down on his fondness for whispery, intimate voiceovers that seep into your brain. In Knife of Cups, the narrators include Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett and Natalie Portman; in Song to Song, it’s Ryan Gosling, Michael Fassbender and Rooney Mara. Until Gosling joins YouTube and pretends to be a touchy-feely barber, this will do for now. Think of it as a two-hour ASMR video – except the Lubezki-lensed visuals are more cinematic than, say, pointing a laptop webcam at a dining table and pretending it’s a hair salon.