Maximalist film
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] Spike Lee, Wong Kar-wai, Wes Anderson, Jane Campion, David Lynch,[2] Michael Bay,[3][4] Zack Snyder,[5][6] Julie Taymor,[7] Sofia Coppola,[8] Tony Scott,[9][10] Paul W.S. Anderson,[11] Terry Gilliam,[12] Paul Verhoeven,[13] Federico Fellini,[14] Pedro Almodovar,[15] Edgar Wright,[16] Sam Raimi,[17] King Vidor,[18] Oliver Stone,[19] Steven Spielberg,[20][21] Alejandro G. Inarritu,[22] Quentin Tarantino,[23][24] Max Orphuls, Orson Welles, Rainer Werner Fassbinder,[25] Tim Burton,[26] the team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger,[27] John Woo,[28] Genndy Tartakovsky,[29] Masaaki Yuasa,[30] Xavier Dolan,[31] Paul Thomas Anderson,[32] Joachim Trier[33] and Park Chan-wook.[34]
List of notable maximalist films
- Napoleon (Abel Gance, 1927)
- 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, 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)
- 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)
- Escape from New York (John Carpenter, 1981)
- Excalibur (John Boorman, 1981)
- The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)
- Amadeus (Milos Forman, 1984)
- 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)
- Titanic (James Cameron, 1997)
- Armageddon (Michael Bay, 1998)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- The Croods: A New Age (Joel Crawford, 2020)
- Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee, 2020)
- Tenet (Christopher Nolan, 2020)
- 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)
- Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniels, 2022)
- The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (Tom Gormican, 2022)
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See also
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