Maximalist film
Maximalist film or maximalist cinema is related to the art and philosophy of maximalism.
Background
[edit]In the arts, maximalism, a reaction against minimalism, is an aesthetic of excess.[1] The philosophy can be summarized as "more is more", contrasting with the minimalist motto "less is more".
Notable filmmakers
[edit]Many directors have been described as maximalists:
- King Hu[2]
- Shaw Brothers[3]
- Daniels[4]
- Ringo Lam[5]
- Bill Gunn[6]
- Tarsem Singh[7]
- Tyler Perry[8]
- Michael Bay[9][10][11][12]
- Zack Snyder[13][14][15][16]
- Julie Taymor[17]
- Emerald Fennell[18]
- Sofia Coppola[19]
- Tony Scott[20][21]
- Ridley Scott[22]
- Paul W. S. Anderson[23]
- Terry Gilliam[24]
- Paul Verhoeven[25]
- Federico Fellini[26]
- Paolo Sorrentino[27]
- Pedro Almodovar[28][29]
- Edgar Wright[30]
- Sam Raimi[31]
- King Vidor[32]
- Oliver Stone[33]
- Steven Spielberg[34][35]
- Alejandro G. Inarritu[36]
- Quentin Tarantino[37][38]
- S. S. Rajamouli[39][40]
- Youssef Chahine[41]
- Josef von Sternberg[42]
- Max Ophüls[43]
- Orson Welles[43]
- Christopher Nolan[44][45]
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder[43]
- Tim Burton[46]
- Guy Maddin[47]
- The team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger[48]
- John Woo[49]
- Genndy Tartakovsky (Hotel Transylvania)[50]
- Masaaki Yuasa[51][52]
- Xavier Dolan[53]
- Francis Ford Coppola[54]
- Martin Scorsese[54]
- Sergio Leone[54]
- Paul Thomas Anderson[55][56][57][54]
- John Cassavetes[57]
- Baz Luhrmann[58][59]
- Danny Boyle[60]
- Guy Ritchie[60]
- James Cameron[61]
- Joachim Trier[62]
- Park Chan-wook[63]
- Gaspar Noé[64]
List of notable maximalist films
[edit]20th century
[edit]- Intolerance (D.W. Griffith, 1916)[65]
- Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)[66]
- Napoleon (Abel Gance, 1927)
- Fantasia (James Algar, 1940)
- Wild Flower (Emilio Fernández, 1943)
- The Greatest Show on Earth (Cecil B. DeMille, 1952)
- Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, 1952)
- Lola Montes (Max Ophuls, 1955)
- Artists & Models (Frank Tashlin, 1956)[67]
- Mother India (Mehboob Khan, 1957)[68]
- 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)
- The Music Lovers (Ken Russel, 1970)[69]
- Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jaromil Jireš, 1970)[70]
- Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (Ken Jacobs, 1970)
- 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)[71]
- Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)[72]
- The Blues Brothers (John Landis, 1980)[73]
- Xanadu (Robert Greenwald, 1980)
- The Apple (Menahem Golan, 1980)[74]
- American Pop (Ralph Bakshi, 1981)[75]
- Escape from New York (John Carpenter, 1981)[76]
- Excalibur (John Boorman, 1981)
- Love Streams (John Cassavetes, 1984)[57]
- Amadeus (Miloš Forman, 1984)
- The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg, 1985)
- Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985)
- On the Silver Globe (Andrzej Żuławski, 1988)
- Batman (Tim Burton, 1989)[77]
- Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven, 1990)
- Prospero's Books (Peter Greenaway, 1991)
- Tribulation 99 (Craig Baldwin, 1991)
- Bram Stoker's Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992)[78]
- The Heroic Trio (Johnnie To, 1993)[79]
- Shadowlands (Richard Attenborough, 1993)
- Casino (Martin Scorsese, 1995)
- To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (Beeban Kidron, 1995)[80]
- Waterworld (Kevin Reynolds, 1995)
- The Rock (Michael Bay, 1996)
- Con Air (Simon West, 1997)
- Titanic (James Cameron, 1997)
- Armageddon (Michael Bay, 1998)
- Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999)
- Titus (Julie Taymor, 1999)
21st century
[edit]- Bamboozled (Spike Lee, 2000)
- Charlie's Angels (McG, 2000)
- Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, 2001)[81][82]
- Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002)[57]
- The Matrix Reloaded (The Wachowskis, 2003)
- The Matrix Revolutions (The Wachowskis, 2003)
- The Day After Tomorrow (Roland Emmerich, 2004)
- Man on Fire (Tony Scott, 2004)
- The Polar Express (Robert Zemeckis, 2004)[83]
- Speed Racer (The Wachowskis, 2008)
- A Town Called Panic (Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar, 2009)[75]
- Avatar (James Cameron, 2009)
- The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, (Terry Gilliam, 2009)
- Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009)
- Zombieland (Ruben Fleischer, 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)
- Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Alejandro G. Inarritu, 2014)[84]
- Blue Is the Warmest Colour (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2014)
- Mommy (Xavier Dolan, 2014)
- X-Men: Days of Future Past (Bryan Singer, 2014)[85]
- De Palma (Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow, 2015)
- Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)[86]
- Mother! (Darren Aronofsky, 2017)[87]
- American Made (Doug Liman, 2017)
- I, Tonya (Craig Gillespie, 2017)
- Mission: Impossible - Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie, 2018)
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey & Rodney Rothman, 2018)
- Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino, 2018)
- Fahrenheit 11/9 (Michael Moore, 2018)
- The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers, 2019)[88]
- 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)
- Belle (Mamoru Hosoda, 2021)
- Encanto (Byron Howard and Jared Bush, 2021)[89]
- House of Gucci (Ridley Scott, 2021)
- In the Heights (Jon M. Chu, 2021)[90]
- Jungle Cruise (Jaume Collet-Serra, 2021)[91]
- The Last Duel (Ridley Scott, 2021)
- The Mitchells vs. the Machines (Mike Rianda, 2021)
- Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron, 2022)
- Babylon (Damien Chazelle, 2022)
- Blonde (Andrew Dominik, 2022)[92]
- Elvis (Baz Luhrmann, 2022)
- Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniels, 2022)
- Moonage Daydream (Brett Morgen, 2022)[93]
- RRR (S. S. Rajamouli, 2022)
- Top Gun: Maverick (Joseph Kosinski, 2022)
- The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (Tom Gormican, 2022)[94]
- White Noise (Noah Baumbach, 2022)[95]
- Barbie (Greta Gerwig, 2023)[96]
- Beau is Afraid (Ari Aster, 2023)[97]
- The Boy and the Heron (Hayao Miyazaki, 2023)[98]
- Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2023)[99]
- Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé (Beyoncé, 2023)[100]
- Saltburn (Emerald Fennell, 2023)[101]
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers & Justin K. Thompson, 2023)
- The Sweet East (Sean Price Williams, 2023)[102]
- Abigail (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, 2024)[103]
- The Brutalist (Brady Corbet, 2024)[54]
- Emilia Pérez (Jacques Audiard, 2024)[104]
- The Fall Guy (David Leitch, 2024)[16][105]
- MaXXXine (Ti West, 2024)[106]
- Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola, 2024)[107]
- The Substance (Coralie Fargeat, 2024)
- Sinners (Ryan Coogler, 2025)
See also
[edit]- Arthouse animation
- Vulgar auteurism
- Postmodernist film
- Minimalist film
- Art film
- Arthouse action film
- Modernist film
- Arthouse musical
- American independent cinema
References
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- ^ Goodbye, Dragon Inn - Metrograph
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- ^ How Everything Everywhere All At Once Became a Best Picture Winner|TIME
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- ^ Tyler Perry's 'For Colored Girls' - Review - The New York Times
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- ^ Streaming: Army of the Dead and cinema's best zombie films|Movies|The Guardian
- ^ Top Films of 2021 — 15-11|In Review Online
- ^ a b Zack Snyder Films Are the Definition of Maximalist Excess - The Escapist
- ^ The Urgency of Sundance's 'Issue' Films in 2020 - The Atlantic
- ^ 'Saltburn' basks in excess and bleak comedy: Pop Culture Happy Hour : NPR
- ^ 'I didn't want to do another movie with Bill Murray - there was too much pressure' - Sofia Coppola - independent.ie
- ^ Tony Scott Made Movies as a Maximalist - The New York Times
- ^ The 14 Best Val Kilmer Movies Ranked|/Film
- ^ Gladiator II review: Exhausted, decadent imperial decline - The A.V. Club
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- ^ Steven Spielberg's 'BFG' Box Office Flop: Has Spielberg Lost Touch? - Variety
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- ^ The Misunderstood Ambition of "Hudson Hawk"|The New Yorker
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- ^ In the Realm of the Senses: The Egyptian Stories of Youssef Chahine on Notebook|MUBI
- ^ Review: Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood on Criterion Blu-ray - Slant Magazine
- ^ a b c Eugene Kotlyarenko is Telling God's Honest Truth - Interview Magazine
- ^ For the Filming of Widescreen Snowscapes and Against the Interpretation of Dreams on Notebook|MUBI
- ^ ‘Dunkirk,’ ‘Call Me By Your Name’ top AP’s best 2017 films - Entertainment & Life - telegram.com - Worcester, MA
- ^ Bitter Pill: Kathryn Andrews at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Glasstire
- ^ Brand upon the Brain!: Out of the Past|Current|The Criterion Collection
- ^ The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Directed by The Archers|Talk Cinema
- ^ When Jean-Claude Van Damme became Hong Kong’s gateway to Hollywood / The Dissolve
- ^ Upcoming Animated Movies Your Kids Will Get Excited For |/Film
- ^ Best Anime Movies of All Time (Top 100) - Paste
- ^ The Best Movies on Crunchyroll - Paste
- ^ IT'S ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD: Xavier Dolan's First Misfire – Film Inquiry
- ^ a b c d e 'The Brutalist' editor on the making of the epic film - GoldDerby
- ^ How Paul Thomas Anderson sets himself apart from Hollywood's other wunderkinds - Slate Magazine
- ^ The 10 Best Modern Ambient Films - Page 2 - Taste of Cinema
- ^ a b c d Dennis Lim's Top 10|Current|The Criterion Collection
- ^ After Elvis, Baz Luhrmann Will Make One of His Old Movies Even Longer|Vanity Fair
- ^ Navigating 'Australia' - The Week
- ^ a b Baz Luhrmann and the Generation of Maximalism - MovieWeb
- ^ Bigelow vs. Cameron – IFC Center
- ^ Wanting Less and Needing More: Minimalism, Maximalism, Ryusuke Hamaguchi and the Rest of 2021 in film - Filmmaker Magazine
- ^ The 20 Best Movie Music & Film Scores of the 2010s|IndieWire
- ^ Meet The Director Behind Some Of The Most Disturbing & Unforgettable Films Ever Made|theMusic.com.au
- ^ Damien Chazelle: 5 Films That Inspired 'Babylon'|A.frame
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- ^ Artists and Models|Frank Tashlin|In Review Online
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- ^ Raising Hell: Ken Russell and the Unmaking of The Devils - Google Books (Section 4)
- ^ Valerie and Her Week of Wonders: Grandmother, What Big Fangs You Have!|Current|The Criterion Collection
- ^ How Joe Dante Mastered Mainstream Meta Horror From Gremlins to Piranha|Collider
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- ^ Revisiting 1980, the Year the Movies Killed Disco - InsiderHook
- ^ a b Five animated films that show the medium isn’t just for kids|Culture|dailynebraskan.com
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- ^ The Heroic Trio|Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
- ^ The 90s Film About Three Drag Queens Stranded in Small-Town America|AnOther
- ^ 'Moulin Rouge' Will Always Be Baz Luhrmann's Maximalist Magnum Opus|Collider
- ^ 20 Years On, ‘Moulin Rouge!’ (2001) Remains a Metatheatrical, Maximalist Masterpiece — Flip Screen
- ^ Robert Zemeckis’ Motion Capture Trilogy: The Polar Express, Beowulf, & A Christmas Carol|In Review Online
- ^ Eye on Iñárritu: The Misguided Maximalism of 'Birdman' | - Vague Visages
- ^ X-Men: Days of Future Past Is Maximalist Hollywood Filmmaking at Its Best - Slate Magazine
- ^ Todd Haynes' quiet precision makes Carol one of the year's best films - nashvillescene.com
- ^ The mystic maximalism of Darren Aronofsky's "Mother!"|Salon.com
- ^ The Lighthouse|Robert Eggers|In Review Online
- ^ ‘Encanto’ Film Review: Disney Goes to Colombia for a Moving but Overstuffed Family Comedy-Adventure - Yahoo Life
- ^ In The Heights Review: Jon M. Chu's Lin-Manuel Miranda Adaptation Is the Best Hollywood Musical in Years - Paste
- ^ 'Jungle Cruise' film review: a classic summer blockbuster souped up for the modern age|NME Australia
- ^ Why Netflix's 'Blonde' is facing criticism|Mashable
- ^ 'Moonage Daydream' is a swirling, maximalist mosaic of Bowie's alter egos|WBUR News
- ^ Review: 'The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent' - Metro Weekly
- ^ Holiday Stuffing|Movies|Style Weekly
- ^ Greta Gerwig Talks About the Maximalist Approach She Used For BARBIE and How Shakespeare Inspired The Movie — GeekTyrant
- ^ Beau is Afraid an epic of anxiety|News|recorderonline.com
- ^ Studio Ghibli's The Boy And The Heron Screened At TIFF – Here's What People Are Saying|/Film
- ^ The Weird, Fearless Partnership Behind 'Poor Things' - The Atlantic
- ^ 'Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé' is maximalist excellence : Pop Culture Happy Hour : NPR
- ^ Rosamund Pike Says 'Saltburn' Is a "Delicious" New Film|Observer
- ^ Review: Everything will happen in ‘The Sweet East,’ a maximalist, nonchalant teenage odyssey - Columbia Daily Spectator
- ^ Movie review: Radio Silence brings maximalist style to vampire flick ‘Abigail’|Pioneer Press
- ^ Trans cartel musical ‘Emilia Pérez’ takes maximalist aesthetic to the extreme - Xtra Magazine
- ^ How ‘The Fall Guy’ Went From Dark Noir to Maximalist Love Story by ‘Using the Language of Stunts’ - Variety
- ^ “MaXXXine” Exudes Excess and Maximalist Filmmaking for Better and Worse (Movie Review)|RATINGS GAME MUSIC
- ^ Francis Ford Coppola's messy, maximalist 'Magalopolis'|WBUR News
