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Maximalist film or maximalist cinema is related to the art and philosophy of maximalism, a reaction against minimalism.
Notable filmmakers
This type of film includes the likes of directors Bill Gunn,[1] Daryush Shokof, Spike Lee, Wong Kar-wai, Wes Anderson, Jane Campion, David Lynch,[2] Michael Bay,[3][4][5] Zack Snyder,[6][7] Julie Taymor,[8] Sofia Coppola,[9] Tony Scott,[10][11] Paul W. S. Anderson,[12] Terry Gilliam,[13] Paul Verhoeven,[14] Federico Fellini,[15] Pedro Almodovar,[16] Edgar Wright,[17] Sam Raimi,[18] King Vidor,[19] Oliver Stone,[20] Steven Spielberg,[21][22] Alejandro G. Inarritu,[23] Quentin Tarantino,[24][25] S. S. Rajamouli,[26][27] Max Ophüls, Orson Welles, Rainer Werner Fassbinder,[28] Tim Burton,[29] the team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger,[30] John Woo,[31] Genndy Tartakovsky (Hotel Transylvania),[32] Masaaki Yuasa,[33] Xavier Dolan,[34] Paul Thomas Anderson,[35] Baz Luhrmann,[36][37] Joachim Trier[38] and Park Chan-wook.[39]
List of notable maximalist films
- Napoleon (Abel Gance, 1927)
- Fantasia (James Algar, 1940)
- Bad Luck Blackie (Tex Avery, 1949)
- The Greatest Show on Earth (Cecil B. DeMille, 1952)
- Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, 1952)
- Lola Montes (Max Ophuls, 1955)
- The Flicker (Tony Conrad, 1965)
- Daisies (Vera Chytilova, 1966)
- War and Peace (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1966)
- Point Blank (John Boorman, 1967)
- Weekend (Jean-Luc Goddard, 1967)
- Fellini Satyricon (Federico Fellini, 1969)
- Z (Costa-Gavras, 1969)
- Salomè (Carmelo Bene, 1972)
- The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973)
- Zardoz (John Boorman, 1974)
- New York, New York (Martin Scorsese, 1977)
- Sorcerer (William Friedkin, 1977)
- Piranha (Joe Dante, 1978)
- The Blues Brothers (John Landis, 1980)
- Xanadu (Robert Greenwald, 1980)
- The Apple (Menahem Golan, 1980)
- American Pop (Ralph Bakshi, 1981)
- Excalibur (John Boorman, 1981)
- Amadeus (Miloš Forman, 1984)
- The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg, 1985)
- Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985)
- On the Silver Globe (Andrzej Żuławski, 1988)
- Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven, 1990)
- Prospero's Books (Peter Greenaway, 1991)
- Bram Stoker's Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992)
- Casino (Martin Scorsese, 1995)
- To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (Beeban Kidron, 1995)
- Waterworld (Kevin Reynolds, 1995)
- Seven Servants (Daryush Shokof, 1996)
- Titanic (James Cameron, 1997)
- Armageddon (Michael Bay, 1998)
- Titus (Julie Taymor, 1999)
- Bamboozled (Spike Lee, 2000)
- Charlie's Angels (McG, 2000)
- Moulin Rogue (Baz Luhrmann, 2001)
- The Matrix Reloaded (The Wachowskis, 2003)
- The Matrix Revolutions (The Wachowskis, 2003)
- Man on Fire (Tony Scott, 2004)
- Speed Racer (The Wachowskis, 2008)
- A Town Called Panic (Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar, 2009)
- Avatar (James Cameron, 2009)
- The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, (Terry Gilliam, 2009)
- The Adventures of Tintin (Steven Spielberg, 2011)
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Michael Bay, 2011)
- The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann, 2013)
- Hard to Be a God (Aleksei German, 2013)
- Blue Is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2014)
- Mommy (Xavier Dolan, 2014)
- Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Alejandro G. Inarritu, 2014)
- De Palma (Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow, 2015)
- Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)
- Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan, 2017)
- Mother! (Darren Aronofsky, 2017)
- American Made (Doug Liman, 2017)
- I, Tonya (Craig Gillespie, 2017)
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey & Rodney Rothman, 2018)
- Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino, 2018)
- Fahrenheit 11/9 (Michael Moore, 2018)
- The Croods: A New Age (Joel Crawford, 2020)
- Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee, 2020)
- Tenet (Christopher Nolan, 2020)
- Belle (Mamoru Hosoda, 2021)
- Army of the Dead (Zack Snyder, 2021)
- House of Gucci (Ridley Scott, 2021)
- In the Heights (Jon M. Chu, 2021)
- Jungle Cruise (Jaume Collet-Serra, 2021)
- The Last Duel (Ridley Scott, 2021)
- The Mitchells vs. the Machines (Mike Rianda, 2021)
- RRR (S. S. Rajamouli, 2022)
- Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniels, 2022)
- The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (Tom Gormican, 2022)
- Elvis (Baz Luhrmann, 2022)
- Top Gun: Maverick (Joseph Kosinski, 2022)
- Moonage Daydream (Brett Morgen, 2022)
Sources:[40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77][78][79][80][81][82][83][84][85][86][87][88][89][90][91][92][93][94][95][96][97][98][99][100][101][26][27][102][103][104] [105][106][107]
See also
- Arthouse animation
- Vulgar auteurism
- Postmodernist film
- Minimalist film
- Art film
- Arthouse action film
- Modernist film
- Arthouse musical
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- ^ ‘Dunkirk,’ ‘Call Me By Your Name’ top AP’s best 2017 films - Entertainment & Life - telegram.com - Worcester, MA
- ^ The mystic maximalism of Darren Aronofsky's "Mother!"|Salon.com
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- ^ The 90s Film About Three Drag Queens Stranded in Small-Town America|AnOther
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- ^ notcoming.com|Lola Montes
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- ^ From Jean-Luc Godard to Federico Fellini: 10 essential Maximalist films|Far Out Magazine
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- ^ Brian De Palma on how he depicts women in his films|EW.com
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- ^ 'Moonage Daydream' is a swirling, maximalist mosaic of Bowie's alter egos|WBUR News