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Minimalist cinema is related to the art and philosophy of minimalism.
Notable filmmakers
This type of film includes the works of directors like Robert Bresson,[1] Chloe Zhao,[2] Kelly Reichardt,[3] Yasujiro Ozu,[4][5] Gus van Sant,[6][7] Andy Warhol,[8] Morgan Fisher,[9] Don Hertzfeldt,[10] James Benning,[11] Jafar Panahi,[12] Jim Jarmusch,[13] Alexander Sokurov,[14] Norman McLaren,[15] Michelangelo Antonioni,[16] Hollis Frampton,[17] Peter Roehr,[18] Ernie Gehr,[19] John Cassavetes,[20] Michael Snow,[21] Larry Gottheim[22] and Abbas Kiarostami.[23][24]
List of notable minimalist films
- The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodore Dreyer, 1928)
- Dots (Norman McLaren, 1940)
- Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948)
- Gerald McBoing Boing (Robert Cannon, 1951)
- Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
- The Tell Tale Heart (Ted Parmelee, 1953)
- Ordet (Carl Theodore Dreyer, 1955)
- A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson, 1956)
- 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957)
- Plan 9 from Outer Space (Ed Wood, 1959)
- An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu, 1962)
- Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964)
- Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
- Mouchette (Robert Bresson, 1967)
- Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
- Wavelength (Michael Snow, 1967)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
- Surface Tension (Hollis Frampton, 1968)
- Lemon (Hollis Frampton, 1969)
- Bambi Meets Godzilla (Marv Newland, 1969)
- Serene Velocity (Ernie Gehr, 1970)
- Duel (Steven Spielberg, 1971)
- Silent Running (Douglas Trumbull, 1972)
- Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Ackerman, 1975)
- Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
- Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977)
- Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)
- Halloween (John Carpenter 1978)
- Mad Max (George Miller, 1979)
- My Dinner with Andre (Louis Malle, 1981)
- Liquid Sky (Slava Tsukerman, 1982)
- Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio, 1983)
- Secret Honor (Robert Altman, 1984)
- Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch, 1984)
- Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch, 1986)
- Swimming to Cambodia (Jonathan Demme, 1987)
- Alice (Jan Svankmajer, 1988)
- Leningrad Cowboys Go America (Aki Kaurismaki, 1989)
- The Seventh Continent (Michael Haneke, 1989)
- The Match Factory Girl, (Aki Kaurismäki, 1990)
- Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, 1994)
- Clerks (Kevin Smith, 1994)
- Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater, 1995) and the sequels Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013)
- A Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997)
- Gattaca (Andrew Niccol, 1997)
- Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Werner Herzog, 1997)
- Festen (Thomas Vinterberg, 1998)
- American Beauty (Sam Mendes, 1999)
- The Blair Witch Project (Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, 1999)
- The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami, 1999)
- Cast Away (Robert Zemeckis, 2000)
- Y tu mamá también (Alfonso Cuaron, 2001)
- Tape (Richard Linklater, 2001)
- Gerry (Gus van Sant, 2002)
- Ten (Abbas Kiarostami, 2002)
- Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003)
- Open Water (Chris Kentis, 2003)
- Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess, 2004)
- Brick (Rian Johnson, 2005)
- The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu, 2005)
- Hard Candy (David Slade, 2005)
- Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt, 2006)
- Once (John Carney, 2007)
- Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt, 2008)
- Baghead (Jay and Mark Duplass, 2008)
- Wall-E (Andrew Stanton, 2008)
- 500 Days of Summer (Marc Webb, 2009)
- Moon (Duncan Jones, 2009)
- 127 Hours (Danny Boyle, 2010)
- Winter's Bone (Debra Granik, 2010)
- Beyond the Black Rainbow (Panos Cosmatos, 2010)
- Hanna (Joe Wright, 2011)
- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011)
- The Turin Horse (Ágnes Hranitzky and Bela Tarr, 2011)
- It's Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt, 2012)
- Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, 2012)
- Locke (Steven Knight, 2013)
- Gravity (Alfonso Cuaron, 2013)
- Her (Spike Jonze, 2013)
- Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch, 2013)
- Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
- Visitors (Godfrey Reggio, 2013)
- Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2014)
- Room (Lenny Abrahamson, 2015)
- The Revenant (Alejandro G. Inarritu, 2015)
- Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt, 2016)
- The Red Turtle (Michael Dudok de Wit, 2016)
- 10 Cloverfield Lane (Dan Trachtenberg, 2016)
- Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig, 2017)
- The Rider (Chloe Zhao, 2017)
- Roma (Alfonso Cuaron, 2018)
- Away (Gints Zilbalodis, 2019)
- A Quiet Place (John Krasinski, 2018)
- First Cow (Kelly Reichardt, 2019)
- Sound of Metal (Darius Marder, 2019)
- Minari (Lee Isaac Chung, 2020)
- Nomadland (Chloe Zhao, 2020)
- If Anything Happens I Love You (Will McCormack and Michael Govier, 2020)
- The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sang-soo, 2020)
- Belfast (Kenneth Branagh, 2021)
- Dune (Denis Villeneuve, 2021)
- The Tragedy of Macbeth (Joel Coen, 2021)
- Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (Dean Fleischer-Camp, 2022)
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See also
- Arthouse animation
- Maximalist film
- Postmodernist film
- Slow cinema
- Romanian New Wave
- Minimalist music
- Art film
- American Eccentric Cinema
- Modernist film
- Arthouse musical
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