# 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. 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:
* King Hu
* Shaw Brothers
* Daniels
* Ringo Lam
* Bill Gunn
* Tarsem Singh
* Tyler Perry
* Michael Bay
* Zack Snyder
* Julie Taymor
* Emerald Fennell
* Sofia Coppola
* Tony Scott
* Ridley Scott
* Paul W. S. Anderson
* Terry Gilliam
* Paul Verhoeven
* Federico Fellini
* Paolo Sorrentino
* Pedro Almodovar
* Edgar Wright
* Sam Raimi
* King Vidor
* Oliver Stone
* Steven Spielberg
* Alejandro G. Inarritu
* Quentin Tarantino
* S. S. Rajamouli
* Youssef Chahine
* Josef von Sternberg
* Max Ophüls
* Orson Welles
* Christopher Nolan
* Rainer Werner Fassbinder
* Tim Burton
* Guy Maddin
* The team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
* John Woo
* Genndy Tartakovsky (Hotel Transylvania)
* Masaaki Yuasa
* Xavier Dolan
* Francis Ford Coppola
* Martin Scorsese
* Sergio Leone
* Paul Thomas Anderson
* John Cassavetes
* Baz Luhrmann
* Danny Boyle
* Guy Ritchie
* James Cameron
* Joachim Trier
* Park Chan-wook
* Gaspar Noé

## List of notable maximalist films
### 20th century

* Intolerance (D.W. Griffith, 1916)
* Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)
* 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)
* Mother India (Mehboob Khan, 1957)
* 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)
* Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jaromil Jireš, 1970)
* 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)
* Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
* 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)
* Love Streams (John Cassavetes, 1984)
* 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)
* Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven, 1990)
* Prospero's Books (Peter Greenaway, 1991)
* Tribulation 99 (Craig Baldwin, 1991)
* Bram Stoker's Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992)
* The Heroic Trio (Johnnie To, 1993)
* Shadowlands (Richard Attenborough, 1993)
* Casino (Martin Scorsese, 1995)
* To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (Beeban Kidron, 1995)
* 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

* Bamboozled (Spike Lee, 2000)
* Charlie's Angels (McG, 2000)
* Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, 2001)
* Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002)
* 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)
* Speed Racer (The Wachowskis, 2008)
* A Town Called Panic (Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar, 2009)
* 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)
* Blue Is the Warmest Colour (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2014)
* Mommy (Xavier Dolan, 2014)
* X-Men: Days of Future Past (Bryan Singer, 2014)
* De Palma (Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow, 2015)
* Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)
* Mother! (Darren Aronofsky, 2017)
* American Made (Doug Liman, 2017)
* I, Tonya (Craig Gillespie, 2017)
* 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)
* 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)
* 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)
* Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron, 2022)
* Babylon (Damien Chazelle, 2022)
* Blonde (Andrew Dominik, 2022)
* Elvis (Baz Luhrmann, 2022)
* Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniels, 2022)
* Moonage Daydream (Brett Morgen, 2022)
* RRR (S. S. Rajamouli, 2022)
* Top Gun: Maverick (Joseph Kosinski, 2022)
* The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (Tom Gormican, 2022)
* White Noise (Noah Baumbach, 2022)
* Barbie (Greta Gerwig, 2023)
* Beau is Afraid (Ari Aster, 2023)
* The Boy and the Heron (Hayao Miyazaki, 2023)
* Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2023)
* Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé (Beyoncé, 2023)
* Saltburn (Emerald Fennell, 2023)
* Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers & Justin K. Thompson, 2023)
* The Sweet East (Sean Price Williams, 2023)
* Abigail (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, 2024)
* The Brutalist (Brady Corbet, 2024)
* Emilia Pérez (Jacques Audiard, 2024)
* The Fall Guy (David Leitch, 2024)
* MaXXXine (Ti West, 2024)
* Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola, 2024)
* The Substance (Coralie Fargeat, 2024)