Maximalist film

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

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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

Sources

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See also

References

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  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. 1 2 How Everything Everywhere All At Once Became a Best Picture Winner|TIME
  5. ↑ The Incendiary Cinema of Ringo Lam on Notebook|MUBI
  6. ↑ Bill Gunn|Film Essay|Gagosian Quarterly
  7. ↑ Dear Jassi review - Hollywood maximalist makes first Indian movie|Toronto film festival 2023|The Guardian
  8. ↑ Tyler Perry's 'For Colored Girls' - Review - The New York Times
  9. ↑ Bay Watch - Film Comment
  10. ↑ The 50 Best Good Bad Movies - The Ringer
  11. ↑ 15 Directors With a Signature Style|ScreenRant
  12. ↑ Highest Grossing Directors of All Time - Screen Rant
  13. ↑ Zack Snyder’s Favorite Films, From ‘A Clockwork Orange’ to ‘Blue Velvet’
  14. ↑ Streaming: Army of the Dead and cinema's best zombie films|Movies|The Guardian
  15. ↑ Top Films of 2021 — 15-11|In Review Online
  16. 1 2 Zack Snyder Films Are the Definition of Maximalist Excess - The Escapist
  17. ↑ The Urgency of Sundance's 'Issue' Films in 2020 - The Atlantic
  18. ↑ 'Saltburn' basks in excess and bleak comedy: Pop Culture Happy Hour : NPR
  19. ↑ 'I didn't want to do another movie with Bill Murray - there was too much pressure' - Sofia Coppola - independent.ie
  20. ↑ Tony Scott Made Movies as a Maximalist - The New York Times
  21. ↑ The 14 Best Val Kilmer Movies Ranked|/Film
  22. ↑ Gladiator II review: Exhausted, decadent imperial decline - The A.V. Club
  23. ↑ The Unusual Genius of the "Resident Evil" Movies|The New Yorker
  24. ↑ Brazil: five films that may have influenced Terry Gilliam's dystopian masterpiece|BFI
  25. ↑ You Don't Nomi Movie Review - Book and Film Globe
  26. ↑ Born 100 Years Ago, Filmmaker Federico Fellini Captured The Messiness Of Life|WAMU
  27. ↑ Coming in December - Metrograph
  28. ↑ 7 of Pedro Almodovar's most stylish films (including his latest, Pain and Glory)|Vogue India
  29. ↑ ReFocus: The Films of Xavier Dolan - Google Books (pg.3)
  30. ↑ 18 Comedies So Funny You'll Cry With Laughter|ScreenRant
  31. ↑ Darkman|Screen Slate
  32. ↑ March-April 2020 - Film Comment
  33. ↑ Observations on film art : Friendly books, books by friends
  34. ↑ Will Steven Spielberg's Lincoln Sweep the 2012 Oscars?|Vanity Fair
  35. ↑ Steven Spielberg's 'BFG' Box Office Flop: Has Spielberg Lost Touch? - Variety
  36. ↑ Has "The Revenant" established Alejandro G. Inarritu as today's most acclaimed director?|Read|The Take
  37. ↑ Quentin Tarantino's Films As Infographics - Vulture
  38. ↑ The Misunderstood Ambition of "Hudson Hawk"|The New Yorker
  39. 1 2 Abrams, Simon. "RRR movie review & film summary (2022) | Roger Ebert". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved 2022-07-04.
  40. 1 2 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.
  41. ↑ In the Realm of the Senses: The Egyptian Stories of Youssef Chahine on Notebook|MUBI
  42. ↑ Review: Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood on Criterion Blu-ray - Slant Magazine
  43. 1 2 3 Eugene Kotlyarenko is Telling God's Honest Truth - Interview Magazine
  44. ↑ For the Filming of Widescreen Snowscapes and Against the Interpretation of Dreams on Notebook|MUBI
  45. ↑ ‘Dunkirk,’ ‘Call Me By Your Name’ top AP’s best 2017 films - Entertainment & Life - telegram.com - Worcester, MA
  46. ↑ Bitter Pill: Kathryn Andrews at the Nasher Sculpture Center|Glasstire
  47. ↑ Brand upon the Brain!: Out of the Past|Current|The Criterion Collection
  48. ↑ The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Directed by The Archers|Talk Cinema
  49. ↑ When Jean-Claude Van Damme became Hong Kong’s gateway to Hollywood / The Dissolve
  50. ↑ Upcoming Animated Movies Your Kids Will Get Excited For |/Film
  51. ↑ Best Anime Movies of All Time (Top 100) - Paste
  52. ↑ The Best Movies on Crunchyroll - Paste
  53. ↑ IT'S ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD: Xavier Dolan's First Misfire – Film Inquiry
  54. 1 2 3 4 5 'The Brutalist' editor on the making of the epic film - GoldDerby
  55. ↑ How Paul Thomas Anderson sets himself apart from Hollywood's other wunderkinds - Slate Magazine
  56. ↑ The 10 Best Modern Ambient Films - Page 2 - Taste of Cinema
  57. 1 2 3 Dennis Lim's Top 10|Current|The Criterion Collection
  58. ↑ After Elvis, Baz Luhrmann Will Make One of His Old Movies Even Longer|Vanity Fair
  59. ↑ Navigating 'Australia' - The Week
  60. 1 2 Baz Luhrmann and the Generation of Maximalism - MovieWeb
  61. ↑ Bigelow vs. Cameron – IFC Center
  62. ↑ Wanting Less and Needing More: Minimalism, Maximalism, Ryusuke Hamaguchi and the Rest of 2021 in film - Filmmaker Magazine
  63. ↑ The 20 Best Movie Music & Film Scores of the 2010s|IndieWire
  64. ↑ Meet The Director Behind Some Of The Most Disturbing & Unforgettable Films Ever Made|theMusic.com.au
  65. ↑ Film List with David McMichael of Hyperreal Film Club - Conflict of Interest
  66. ↑ MAXIMALIST FILMS: Gleeful chaos reigns —— Hyperreal Film Club
  67. ↑ Observations on film art: Tony and Theo
  68. ↑ CC50|Canyon Cinema
  69. ↑ 'Total Recall' at 25: Paul Verhoeven's sci-fi still shooks - Los Angeles Times
  70. ↑ Revisiting 1980, the Year the Movies Killed Disco - InsiderHook
  71. ↑ Xanadu at 40: a mesmerisingly messy musical failure|Musicals|The Guardian
  72. ↑ The mystic maximalism of Darren Aronofsky's "Mother!"|Salon.com
  73. ↑ Speed Racer Is Not An Art Film – The Sundae
  74. ↑ Review: ‘American Made’ has an undeniable shaggy-dog charm|Movies|journalstar.com
  75. ↑ The 90s Film About Three Drag Queens Stranded in Small-Town America|AnOther
  76. ↑ A maximalist family romp in ‘The Croods: A New Age”|Movies|nwitimes
  77. ↑ Charlie’s Angels: Love it or hate it, the original movie is an unintentional Warholian masterpiece
  78. ↑ 'Army of the Dead' Netflix Trailer and Release Date: WATCH - Vulture
  79. ↑ 10 great French period films|BFI
  80. ↑ 20 Years On, ‘Moulin Rouge!’ (2001) Remains a Metatheatrical, Maximalist Masterpiece — Flip Screen
  81. ↑ The Best Movies of 2020 - The Ringer
  82. ↑ Safe At Home Blu-Ray Round-Up - The Retro Set
  83. ↑ QFT Programme 1993 Jan Special Season on JSTOR
  84. ↑ All 25 Martin Scorsese Movies, Ranked - Thrillist
  85. ↑ Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods Takes On the Black Trauma of Vietnam|The New Republic
  86. ↑ Da 5 Bloods review — Spike Lee throws a light on the role of African-American soldiers in Vietnam|Time Out
  87. ↑ In The Heights Review: Jon M. Chu's Lin-Manuel Miranda Adaptation Is the Best Hollywood Musical in Years - Paste
  88. ↑ The Blues Brothers at 40: a manic musical romp that still sings today|Movies|The Guardian
  89. ↑ World of Wong Kar Wai, The Ten Commendnments, Southland Tales and More: Jim Hemphill's Home Video Recommendations|Filmmaker Magazine
  90. ↑ Youth gangs, psychic schoolgirls and outer space: the cult films of the 70s|HUNGER TV
  91. ↑ 100 Best Thriller Films Of All Time|Time Out London
  92. ↑ BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR / OH COMELY - JASON WARD
  93. ↑ notcoming.com|Lola Montes
  94. ↑ The 25 Most Influential Movie Scenes of the Last 25 Years|Vanity Fair
  95. ↑ From Jean-Luc Godard to Federico Fellini: 10 essential Maximalist films|Far Out Magazine
  96. ↑ 'Jungle Cruise' film review: a classic summer blockbuster souped up for the modern age|NME Australia
  97. ↑ 68 Movies We Can't Wait to Watch in Theaters in 2021 - Film School Rejects
  98. ↑ Brian De Palma on how he depicts women in his films|EW.com
  99. ↑ Two men and a lady: perspective and 'The Last Duel' : Pop Culture : NPR
  100. ↑ MUBI Special: John Carpenter's 1980s: A Double Bill|MUBI
  101. ↑ The New Titans: Notes on Michael Bay's "Transformers: Dark of the Moon"|MUBI
  102. ↑ The 50 Best Animated Movies|Movies|Empire
  103. ↑ 'Pam & Tammy' and the Obsession With '90s Revisionism - The Ringer
  104. ↑ 10 great disaster films|BFI
  105. ↑ "Pam & Tammy" is compelling viewing but leaves a bitter taste|The Economist
  106. ↑ The 10 Best Movie Musicals in Cinema - High On Films
  107. ↑ 10 great films about mothers|BFI
  108. ↑ 'The Bling Ring' and the new American Dream - Los Angeles Times
  109. ↑ Todd Haynes' quiet precision makes Carol one of the year's best films - nashvillescene.com
  110. ↑ Dracula | Screen Slate
  111. ↑ How Joe Dante Mastered Mainstream Meta Horror From Gremlins to Piranha|Collider
  112. ↑ Everything Everywhere All At Once review: A multiverse epic|Digital Trends
  113. ↑ Review: 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' offers maximalist madness - Washington Square News
  114. ↑ Review: 'The Unbearable Weright of Massive Talent' - Metro Weekly
  115. ↑ Five animated films that show the medium isn’t just for kids|Culture|dailynebraskan.com
  116. ↑ New website Missing Movies is compiling a listing of non-streaming classics - Little White Lies
  117. ↑ What films deserved to make our "best of 1999" list?|AV Club
  118. ↑ A Brand New Start Of It: Scorsese's NEW YORK, NEW YORK - Birth.Movies.Death.
  119. ↑ Baz Luhrman Gives Maximalism Meaning in Elvis & The Great Gatsby - Collider
  120. ↑ Belle review: Mamoru Hosoda revives Beauty and the Beast for an online era - Polygon
  121. ↑ What critics say about films showing this week - Cape Cod Times
  122. ↑ The 50 Greatest Movie Dance Scenes of All Time - Vulture
  123. ↑ ‘Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse’ Directors Discuss Their Sequel (Video Interview)|Cartoon Brew
  124. ↑ Films of Endearment - Google Books (chapter:"1985: Garden")
  125. ↑ How Fantasia Went From A Box Office Bomb To A Cultural Touchstone - Slash Film
  126. ↑ 'Into the Spider-Verse' is a hallucinogenic web of pulpy styles - Arkansas Times
  127. ↑ I Already Miss the Maximalist Movie - Vulture
  128. ↑ Eye on Iñárritu: The Misguided Maximalism of 'Birdman' | - Vague Visages
  129. ↑ The Overwhelming Charm of Maximalist Filmmaking - Match Cut
  130. ↑ 'Moonage Daydream' is a swirling, maximalist mosaic of Bowie's alter egos|WBUR News
  131. ↑ 5 things to watch this weekend - 27 to 29 May|BFI
  132. ↑ Margot Robbie's Babylon is either the worst film of 2022 or the best|British GQ
  133. ↑ Holiday Stuffing|Movies|Style Weekly
  134. ↑ Robert Zemeckis’ Motion Capture Trilogy: The Polar Express, Beowulf, & A Christmas Carol|In Review Online
  135. ↑ Artists and Models|Frank Tashlin|In Review Online
  136. ↑ The Lighthouse|Robert Eggers|In Review Online
  137. ↑ Shite & Sound - Metropolis (1927) & Chopping Mall (1986) on Stitcher
  138. ↑ ‘Encanto’ Film Review: Disney Goes to Colombia for a Moving but Overstuffed Family Comedy-Adventure - Yahoo Life
  139. ↑ Trans cartel musical ‘Emilia Pérez’ takes maximalist aesthetic to the extreme - Xtra Magazine
  140. ↑ The 10 Best Action Movies of 2022 - Paste
  141. ↑ Damien Chazelle: 5 Films That Inspired 'Babylon'|A.frame
  142. ↑ The 10 Worst Oscar Bait Movies of All Time, According to Reddit|Collider
  143. ↑ How (and where) to watch Oscar-nominated films online|WGN Radio 720 - Chicago's Very Own
  144. ↑ Why Netflix's 'Blonde' is facing criticism|Mashable
  145. ↑ Babylon IMAX Review: Alarming Maximalist Filmmaking - Back to the Movies
  146. ↑ In 2022, Movies Celebrated and Dreaded Spectacle - The Escapist
  147. ↑ 'Moulin Rouge' Will Always Be Baz Luhrmann's Maximalist Magnum Opus|Collider
  148. ↑ What's With All the Maximalist Movies These Days?|Collider
  149. ↑ X-Men: Days of Future Past Is Maximalist Hollywood Filmmaking at Its Best - Slate Magazine
  150. ↑ Optic Antics - Google Books (pg.15)
  151. ↑ Mother India (BFI Film Classics) - Google Books (pg.102)
  152. ↑ Research Handbook on Communicating Climate Change - Google Books (pg.331)
  153. ↑ Raising Hell: Ken Russell and the Unmaking of The Devils - Google Books (Section 4)
  154. ↑ Robert Bresson (Revised) - Google Books (pg.440)
  155. ↑ Shadows, Specters, Shards - Google Books (pg.37)
  156. ↑ The end has no end: why Hollywood should stop splitting movies into two|Movies|The Guardian
  157. ↑ Beau is Afraid an epic of anxiety|News|recorderonline.com
  158. ↑ Greta Gerwig Talks About the Maximalist Approach She Used For BARBIE and How Shakespeare Inspired The Movie — GeekTyrant
  159. ↑ 'Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé' is maximalist excellence : Pop Culture Happy Hour : NPR
  160. ↑ Review: Everything will happen in ‘The Sweet East,’ a maximalist, nonchalant teenage odyssey - Columbia Daily Spectator
  161. ↑ Noir Affect - Google Books (ch."Peripheral Noir, Mediation, and Captitalism: Noir Form, NoirMediascape, Sociological Noir"
  162. ↑ Rosamund Pike Says 'Saltburn' Is a "Delicious" New Film|Observer
  163. ↑ 'Elvis' Is Utterly Disorienting. That’s the Point. - The Atlantic
  164. ↑ The Heroic Trio|Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
  165. ↑ Studio Ghibli's The Boy And The Heron Screened At TIFF – Here's What People Are Saying|/Film
  166. ↑ 10 Movies From The '70s & '80s We Wished Were In IMAX - Screen Rant
  167. ↑ The Weird, Fearless Partnership Behind 'Poor Things' - The Atlantic
  168. ↑ How ‘The Fall Guy’ Went From Dark Noir to Maximalist Love Story by ‘Using the Language of Stunts’ - Variety
  169. ↑ Movie review: Radio Silence brings maximalist style to vampire flick ‘Abigail’|Pioneer Press
  170. ↑ “MaXXXine” Exudes Excess and Maximalist Filmmaking for Better and Worse (Movie Review)|RATINGS GAME MUSIC
  171. ↑ 'Top Gun: Maverick' Lands on Paramount+ and EPIX Today - Vulture
  172. ↑ Primal movie review & film summary (2019)|Roger Ebert
  173. ↑ Valerie and Her Week of Wonders: Grandmother, What Big Fangs You Have!|Current|The Criterion Collection
  174. ↑ Francis Ford Coppola's messy, maximalist 'Magalopolis'|WBUR News
  175. ↑ Apocalypse Now: Final Cut movie review (2019)|Roger Ebert
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