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.It sparks joy. The rise of maximalism, where there's no such thing as too much|CBC News 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 HuGoodbye, Dragon Inn - Metrograph Shaw BrothersThe 1980s Gave Us One of the Most Over-the-Top Kung-fu Movies of All Time|Collider Coralie FargeatBeyond Cronenberg: twenty squirm-inducing body horror films · Journal · A Letterboxd Magazine DanielsHow Everything Everywhere All At Once Became a Best Picture Winner|TIME Ringo LamThe Incendiary Cinema of Ringo Lam on Notebook|MUBI Bill GunnBill Gunn|Film Essay|Gagosian Quarterly Tarsem SinghDear Jassi review - Hollywood maximalist makes first Indian movie|Toronto film festival 2023|The Guardian Tyler PerryTyler Perry's 'For Colored Girls' - Review - The New York Times Michael BayBay Watch - Film CommentThe 50 Best Good Bad Movies - The Ringer15 Directors With a Signature Style|ScreenRantHighest Grossing Directors of All Time - Screen Rant Zack SnyderZack Snyder’s Favorite Films, From ‘A Clockwork Orange’ to ‘Blue Velvet’Streaming: Army of the Dead and cinema's best zombie films|Movies|The GuardianTop Films of 2021 — 15-11|In Review OnlineZack Snyder Films Are the Definition of Maximalist Excess - The Escapist Julie TaymorThe Urgency of Sundance's 'Issue' Films in 2020 - The Atlantic Emerald Fennell'Saltburn' basks in excess and bleak comedy: Pop Culture Happy Hour : NPR Sofia Coppola'I didn't want to do another movie with Bill Murray - there was too much pressure' - Sofia Coppola - independent.ie Tony ScottTony Scott Made Movies as a Maximalist - The New York TimesThe 14 Best Val Kilmer Movies Ranked|/Film Ridley ScottGladiator II review: Exhausted, decadent imperial decline - The A.V. Club Paul W. S. AndersonThe Unusual Genius of the "Resident Evil" Movies|The New Yorker Terry GilliamBrazil: five films that may have influenced Terry Gilliam's dystopian masterpiece|BFI Paul VerhoevenYou Don't Nomi Movie Review - Book and Film Globe Federico FelliniBorn 100 Years Ago, Filmmaker Federico Fellini Captured The Messiness Of Life|WAMU Paolo SorrentinoComing in December - Metrograph Pedro Almodovar7 of Pedro Almodovar's most stylish films (including his latest, Pain and Glory)|Vogue IndiaReFocus: The Films of Xavier Dolan - Google Books (pg.3) Edgar Wright18 Comedies So Funny You'll Cry With Laughter|ScreenRant Sam RaimiDarkman|Screen Slate King VidorMarch-April 2020 - Film Comment Oliver StoneObservations on film art : Friendly books, books by friends Steven SpielbergWill Steven Spielberg's Lincoln Sweep the 2012 Oscars?|Vanity FairSteven Spielberg's 'BFG' Box Office Flop: Has Spielberg Lost Touch? - Variety Alejandro G. InarrituHas "The Revenant" established Alejandro G. Inarritu as today's most acclaimed director?|Read|The Take Quentin TarantinoQuentin Tarantino's Films As Infographics - VultureThe Misunderstood Ambition of "Hudson Hawk"|The New Yorker S. S. Rajamouli Youssef ChahineIn the Realm of the Senses: The Egyptian Stories of Youssef Chahine on Notebook|MUBI Josef von SternbergReview: Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood on Criterion Blu-ray - Slant Magazine Max Ophüls Orson Welles Christopher NolanFor 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 Rainer Werner FassbinderEugene Kotlyarenko is Telling God's Honest Truth - Interview Magazine Tim BurtonBitter Pill: Kathryn Andrews at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Glasstire Guy MaddinBrand upon the Brain!: Out of the Past|Current|The Criterion Collection The team of Michael Powell and Emeric PressburgerThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Directed by The Archers|Talk Cinema John WooWhen Jean-Claude Van Damme became Hong Kong’s gateway to Hollywood / The Dissolve Genndy Tartakovsky (Hotel Transylvania)Upcoming Animated Movies Your Kids Will Get Excited For |/Film Masaaki YuasaBest Anime Movies of All Time (Top 100) - PasteThe Best Movies on Crunchyroll - Paste Xavier DolanIT'S ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD: Xavier Dolan's First Misfire – Film Inquiry Francis Ford Coppola Martin Scorsese Sergio Leone Paul Thomas AndersonHow Paul Thomas Anderson sets himself apart from Hollywood's other wunderkinds - Slate MagazineThe 10 Best Modern Ambient Films - Page 2 - Taste of CinemaDennis Lim's Top 10|Current|The Criterion Collection John Cassavetes Baz LuhrmannAfter Elvis, Baz Luhrmann Will Make One of His Old Movies Even Longer|Vanity FairNavigating 'Australia' - The Week Danny Boyle Guy RitchieBaz Luhrmann and the Generation of Maximalism - MovieWeb James CameronBigelow vs. Cameron – IFC Center Joachim Trier Wanting Less and Needing More: Minimalism, Maximalism, Ryusuke Hamaguchi and the Rest of 2021 in film - Filmmaker Magazine Park Chan-wookThe 20 Best Movie Music & Film Scores of the 2010s|IndieWire Gaspar NoéMeet The Director Behind Some Of The Most Disturbing & Unforgettable Films Ever Made|theMusic.com.au Arturo and Roy Ambriz"I Am Frankelda is joyful, creepy, maximalist, musical madness" – Review|Skwigly
List of notable maximalist films
20th century
21st century
See also Arthouse animation Vulgar auteurism Postmodernist film Minimalist film Art film Arthouse action film Modernist film Arthouse musical American independent cinema
References
External links Minimalism and Maximalism: The 42nd New York Film Festival - Senses of Cinema