Maximalist film or maximalist cinema is related to the art and philosophy of maximalism, a reaction against minimalism.
Notable filmmakers
This type of film includes the likes of directors: Daniels Ringo Lam Bill Gunn Tyler Perry Michael Bay Zack Snyder Julie Taymor Sofia Coppola Tony Scott Paul W. S. Anderson Terry Gilliam Paul Verhoeven Federico Fellini 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 The team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger John Woo Genndy Tartakovsky (Hotel Transylvania) Masaaki Yuasa Xavier Dolan Paul Thomas Anderson Baz Luhrmann Danny Boyle Guy Ritchie James Cameron Joachim Trier Park Chan-wook Gasper Noe
List of notable maximalist films
20th century
Intolerance (D.W. Griffith, 1916) Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927) Napoleon (Abel Gance, 1927) Fantasia (James Algar, 1940) 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) 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) 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) Amadeus (Miloš Forman, 1984) The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg, 1985) Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985) On the Silver Globe (Andrzej Żuławski, 1988) Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven, 1990) Prospero's Books (Peter Greenaway, 1991) Tribulation 99 (Craig Baldwin, 1991) Bram Stoker's Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992) Shadowlands (Richard Attenborough, 1993) Casino (Martin Scorsese, 1995) To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (Beeban Kidron, 1995) Waterworld (Kevin Reynolds, 1995) Titanic (James Cameron, 1997) Armageddon (Michael Bay, 1998) Titus (Julie Taymor, 1999)