Maximalist film

Maximalist film or maximalist cinema is related to the art and philosophy of maximalism.

Background

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

Many directors have been described as maximalists:

List of notable maximalist films

20th century

21st century

See also

References

  1. ↑ It sparks joy. The rise of maximalism, where there's no such thing as too much|CBC News
  2. ↑ Goodbye, Dragon Inn - Metrograph
  3. ↑ The 1980s Gave Us One of the Most Over-the-Top Kung-fu Movies of All Time|Collider
  4. ↑ Beyond Cronenberg: twenty squirm-inducing body horror films · Journal · A Letterboxd Magazine
  5. ↑ How Everything Everywhere All At Once Became a Best Picture Winner|TIME
  6. ↑ The Incendiary Cinema of Ringo Lam on Notebook|MUBI
  7. ↑ Bill Gunn|Film Essay|Gagosian Quarterly
  8. ↑ Dear Jassi review - Hollywood maximalist makes first Indian movie|Toronto film festival 2023|The Guardian
  9. ↑ Tyler Perry's 'For Colored Girls' - Review - The New York Times
  10. ↑ Bay Watch - Film Comment
  11. ↑ The 50 Best Good Bad Movies - The Ringer
  12. ↑ 15 Directors With a Signature Style|ScreenRant
  13. ↑ Highest Grossing Directors of All Time - Screen Rant
  14. ↑ Zack Snyder’s Favorite Films, From ‘A Clockwork Orange’ to ‘Blue Velvet’
  15. ↑ Streaming: Army of the Dead and cinema's best zombie films|Movies|The Guardian
  16. ↑ Top Films of 2021 — 15-11|In Review Online
  17. 1 2 Zack Snyder Films Are the Definition of Maximalist Excess - The Escapist
  18. ↑ The Urgency of Sundance's 'Issue' Films in 2020 - The Atlantic
  19. ↑ 'Saltburn' basks in excess and bleak comedy: Pop Culture Happy Hour : NPR
  20. ↑ 'I didn't want to do another movie with Bill Murray - there was too much pressure' - Sofia Coppola - independent.ie
  21. ↑ Tony Scott Made Movies as a Maximalist - The New York Times
  22. ↑ The 14 Best Val Kilmer Movies Ranked|/Film
  23. ↑ Gladiator II review: Exhausted, decadent imperial decline - The A.V. Club
  24. ↑ The Unusual Genius of the "Resident Evil" Movies|The New Yorker
  25. ↑ Brazil: five films that may have influenced Terry Gilliam's dystopian masterpiece|BFI
  26. ↑ You Don't Nomi Movie Review - Book and Film Globe
  27. ↑ Born 100 Years Ago, Filmmaker Federico Fellini Captured The Messiness Of Life|WAMU
  28. ↑ Coming in December - Metrograph
  29. ↑ 7 of Pedro Almodovar's most stylish films (including his latest, Pain and Glory)|Vogue India
  30. ↑ ReFocus: The Films of Xavier Dolan - Google Books (pg.3)
  31. ↑ 18 Comedies So Funny You'll Cry With Laughter|ScreenRant
  32. ↑ Darkman|Screen Slate
  33. ↑ March-April 2020 - Film Comment
  34. ↑ Observations on film art : Friendly books, books by friends
  35. ↑ Will Steven Spielberg's Lincoln Sweep the 2012 Oscars?|Vanity Fair
  36. ↑ Steven Spielberg's 'BFG' Box Office Flop: Has Spielberg Lost Touch? - Variety
  37. ↑ Has "The Revenant" established Alejandro G. Inarritu as today's most acclaimed director?|Read|The Take
  38. ↑ Quentin Tarantino's Films As Infographics - Vulture
  39. ↑ The Misunderstood Ambition of "Hudson Hawk"|The New Yorker
  40. ↑ Abrams, Simon. "RRR movie review & film summary (2022) | Roger Ebert". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved 2022-07-04.
  41. ↑ Bui, Hoai-Tran (2022-06-22). "The Daily Stream: RRR Is A Maximalist Epic That Puts Hollywood Blockbusters To Shame". SlashFilm.com. Retrieved 2022-07-04.
  42. ↑ In the Realm of the Senses: The Egyptian Stories of Youssef Chahine on Notebook|MUBI
  43. ↑ Review: Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood on Criterion Blu-ray - Slant Magazine
  44. 1 2 3 Eugene Kotlyarenko is Telling God's Honest Truth - Interview Magazine
  45. ↑ For the Filming of Widescreen Snowscapes and Against the Interpretation of Dreams on Notebook|MUBI
  46. ↑ ‘Dunkirk,’ ‘Call Me By Your Name’ top AP’s best 2017 films - Entertainment & Life - telegram.com - Worcester, MA
  47. ↑ Bitter Pill: Kathryn Andrews at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Glasstire
  48. ↑ Brand upon the Brain!: Out of the Past|Current|The Criterion Collection
  49. ↑ The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Directed by The Archers|Talk Cinema
  50. ↑ When Jean-Claude Van Damme became Hong Kong’s gateway to Hollywood / The Dissolve
  51. ↑ Upcoming Animated Movies Your Kids Will Get Excited For |/Film
  52. ↑ Best Anime Movies of All Time (Top 100) - Paste
  53. ↑ The Best Movies on Crunchyroll - Paste
  54. ↑ IT'S ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD: Xavier Dolan's First Misfire – Film Inquiry
  55. 1 2 3 4 5 'The Brutalist' editor on the making of the epic film - GoldDerby
  56. ↑ How Paul Thomas Anderson sets himself apart from Hollywood's other wunderkinds - Slate Magazine
  57. ↑ The 10 Best Modern Ambient Films - Page 2 - Taste of Cinema
  58. 1 2 3 Dennis Lim's Top 10|Current|The Criterion Collection
  59. ↑ After Elvis, Baz Luhrmann Will Make One of His Old Movies Even Longer|Vanity Fair
  60. ↑ Navigating 'Australia' - The Week
  61. 1 2 Baz Luhrmann and the Generation of Maximalism - MovieWeb
  62. ↑ Bigelow vs. Cameron – IFC Center
  63. ↑ Wanting Less and Needing More: Minimalism, Maximalism, Ryusuke Hamaguchi and the Rest of 2021 in film - Filmmaker Magazine
  64. ↑ The 20 Best Movie Music & Film Scores of the 2010s|IndieWire
  65. ↑ Meet The Director Behind Some Of The Most Disturbing & Unforgettable Films Ever Made|theMusic.com.au
  66. ↑ Damien Chazelle: 5 Films That Inspired 'Babylon'|A.frame
  67. ↑ Shite & Sound - Metropolis (1927) & Chopping Mall (1986) on Stitcher
  68. ↑ Artists and Models|Frank Tashlin|In Review Online
  69. ↑ Mother India (BFI Film Classics) - Google Books (pg.102)
  70. ↑ Raising Hell: Ken Russell and the Unmaking of The Devils - Google Books (Section 4)
  71. ↑ Valerie and Her Week of Wonders: Grandmother, What Big Fangs You Have!|Current|The Criterion Collection
  72. ↑ How Joe Dante Mastered Mainstream Meta Horror From Gremlins to Piranha|Collider
  73. ↑ Apocalypse Now: Final Cut movie review (2019)|Roger Ebert
  74. ↑ The Blues Brothers at 40: a manic musical romp that still sings today|Movies|The Guardian
  75. ↑ Revisiting 1980, the Year the Movies Killed Disco - InsiderHook
  76. 1 2 Five animated films that show the medium isn’t just for kids|Culture|dailynebraskan.com
  77. ↑ MUBI Special: John Carpenter's 1980s: A Double Bill|MUBI
  78. ↑ 10 Movies From The '70s & '80s We Wished Were In IMAX - Screen Rant
  79. ↑ Dracula | Screen Slate
  80. ↑ The Heroic Trio|Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
  81. ↑ The 90s Film About Three Drag Queens Stranded in Small-Town America|AnOther
  82. ↑ 'Moulin Rouge' Will Always Be Baz Luhrmann's Maximalist Magnum Opus|Collider
  83. ↑ 20 Years On, ‘Moulin Rouge!’ (2001) Remains a Metatheatrical, Maximalist Masterpiece — Flip Screen
  84. ↑ Robert Zemeckis’ Motion Capture Trilogy: The Polar Express, Beowulf, & A Christmas Carol|In Review Online
  85. ↑ The view: Pretentious movies are the best movies
  86. ↑ Eye on Iñárritu: The Misguided Maximalism of 'Birdman' | - Vague Visages
  87. ↑ X-Men: Days of Future Past Is Maximalist Hollywood Filmmaking at Its Best - Slate Magazine
  88. ↑ Todd Haynes' quiet precision makes Carol one of the year's best films - nashvillescene.com
  89. ↑ The mystic maximalism of Darren Aronofsky's "Mother!"|Salon.com
  90. ↑ The Lighthouse|Robert Eggers|In Review Online
  91. ↑ ‘Encanto’ Film Review: Disney Goes to Colombia for a Moving but Overstuffed Family Comedy-Adventure - Yahoo Life
  92. ↑ In The Heights Review: Jon M. Chu's Lin-Manuel Miranda Adaptation Is the Best Hollywood Musical in Years - Paste
  93. ↑ 'Jungle Cruise' film review: a classic summer blockbuster souped up for the modern age|NME Australia
  94. ↑ Why Netflix's 'Blonde' is facing criticism|Mashable
  95. ↑ 'Moonage Daydream' is a swirling, maximalist mosaic of Bowie's alter egos|WBUR News
  96. ↑ Review: 'The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent' - Metro Weekly
  97. ↑ Holiday Stuffing|Movies|Style Weekly
  98. ↑ Greta Gerwig Talks About the Maximalist Approach She Used For BARBIE and How Shakespeare Inspired The Movie — GeekTyrant
  99. ↑ Beau is Afraid an epic of anxiety|News|recorderonline.com
  100. ↑ Studio Ghibli's The Boy And The Heron Screened At TIFF – Here's What People Are Saying|/Film
  101. ↑ The Weird, Fearless Partnership Behind 'Poor Things' - The Atlantic
  102. ↑ 'Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé' is maximalist excellence : Pop Culture Happy Hour : NPR
  103. ↑ Rosamund Pike Says 'Saltburn' Is a "Delicious" New Film|Observer
  104. ↑ Review: Everything will happen in ‘The Sweet East,’ a maximalist, nonchalant teenage odyssey - Columbia Daily Spectator
  105. ↑ Movie review: Radio Silence brings maximalist style to vampire flick ‘Abigail’|Pioneer Press
  106. ↑ Trans cartel musical ‘Emilia Pérez’ takes maximalist aesthetic to the extreme - Xtra Magazine
  107. ↑ How ‘The Fall Guy’ Went From Dark Noir to Maximalist Love Story by ‘Using the Language of Stunts’ - Variety
  108. ↑ “MaXXXine” Exudes Excess and Maximalist Filmmaking for Better and Worse (Movie Review)|RATINGS GAME MUSIC
  109. ↑ Francis Ford Coppola's messy, maximalist 'Magalopolis'|WBUR News
  110. ↑ "I Am Frankelda is joyful, creepy, maximalist, musical madness" – Review|Skwigly
  111. ↑ "Wuthering Heights": Emerald Fennell’s Maximalist Adaptation Yields the Story’s Least Interesting Version – Decoding Everything
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