Minimalist film
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Minimalist cinema is related to the art of minimalism.
Notable filmmakers[edit]
This type of film includes the works of directors like Robert Bresson,[1] Chloe Zhao,[2] Kelly Reichardt,[3] Yasujiro Ozu,[4][5] Gus van Sant,[6][7] Andy Warhol,[8] Morgan Fisher,[9] Don Hertzfeldt,[10] James Benning,[11] Jafar Panahi,[12] Jim Jarmusch,[13] Alexander Sokurov,[14] Norman McLaren,[15] Michelangelo Antonioni,[16] Hollis Frampton,[17] Peter Roehr,[18] Larry Gottheim[19] and Abbas Kiarostami.[20][21]
List of notable minimalist films[edit]
- The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodore Dreyer, 1928)
- Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948)
- Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
- Ordet (Carl Theodore Dreyer, 1955)
- A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson, 1956)
- 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957)
- An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu, 1962)
- Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964)
- Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
- Mouchette (Robert Bresson, 1967)
- Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
- Wavelength (Michael Snow, 1967)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
- Surface Tension (Hollis Frampton, 1968)
- Lemon (Hollis Frampton, 1969)
- Duel (Steven Spielberg, 1971)
- Silent Running (Douglas Trumbull, 1972)
- Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Ackerman, 1975)
- Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
- Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977)
- Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)
- My Dinner with Andre (Louis Malle, 1981)
- Liquid Sky (Slava Tsukerman, 1982)
- Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio, 1983)
- Secret Honor (Robert Altman, 1984)
- Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch, 1984)
- Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch, 1986)
- Swimming to Cambodia (Jonathan Demme, 1987)
- Alice (Jan Svankmajer, 1988)
- Leningrad Cowboys Go America (Aki Kaurismaki, 1989)
- The Seventh Continent (Michael Haneke, 1989)
- The Match Factory Girl, (Aki Kaurismäki, 1990)
- Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, 1994)
- Clerks (Kevin Smith, 1994)
- Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater, 1995) and the sequels Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013)
- A Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997)
- Gattaca (Andrew Niccol, 1997)
- Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Werner Herzog, 1997)
- The Blair Witch Project (Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, 1999)
- The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami, 1999)
- Cast Away (Robert Zemeckis, 2000)
- Y tu mamá también (Alfonso Cuaron, 2001)
- Tape (Richard Linklater, 2001)
- Gerry (Gus van Sant, 2002)
- Ten (Abbas Kiarostami, 2002)
- Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003)
- Open Water (Chris Kentis, 2003)
- Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess, 2004)
- The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu, 2005)
- Hard Candy (David Slade, 2005)
- Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt, 2006)
- Once (John Carney, 2007)
- Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt, 2008)
- Baghead (Jay and Mark Duplass, 2008)
- 500 Days of Summer (Marc Webb, 2009)
- Moon (Duncan Jones, 2009)
- 127 Hours (Danny Boyle, 2010)
- Beyond the Black Rainbow (Panos Cosmatos, 2010)
- Hanna (Joe Wright, 2011)
- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011)
- The Turin Horse (Ágnes Hranitzky and Bela Tarr, 2011)
- It's Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt, 2012)
- Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, 2012)
- Locke (Steven Knight, 2013)
- Gravity (Alfonso Cuaron, 2013)
- Her (Spike Jonze, 2013)
- Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch, 2013)
- Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
- Visitors (Godfrey Reggio, 2013)
- Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2014)
- Room (Lenny Abrahamson, 2015)
- The Revenant (Alejandro G. Inarritu, 2015)
- Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt, 2016)
- The Red Turtle (Michael Dudok de Wit, 2016)
- 10 Cloverfield Lane (Dan Trachtenberg, 2016)
- Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig, 2017)
- The Rider (Chloe Zhao, 2017)
- Roma (Alfonso Cuaron, 2018)
- Away (Gints Zilbalodis, 2019)
- First Cow (Kelly Reichardt, 2019)
- Sound of Metal (Darius Marder, 2019)
- Minari (Lee Isaac Chung, 2020)
- Nomadland (Chloe Zhao, 2020)
- If Anything Happens I Love You (Will McCormack and Michael Govier, 2020)
- The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sang-soo, 2020)
- Belfast (Kenneth Branagh, 2021)
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See also[edit]
- Maximalist film
- Postmodernist film
- Slow cinema
- Romanian New Wave
- Minimalist music
- Art film
- American Eccentric Cinema
References[edit]
- ^ The Films Of Robert Bresson: A Retrospective|IndieWire
- ^ The art of Chloe Zhao, Arts - THE BUSINESS TIMES
- ^ Kelly Reichardt: Powerfully Observant|MoMA
- ^ The Beginner's Guide: Yasujiro Ozu, Director|Film Inquiry
- ^ The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Directed by The Archers|Talk Cinema
- ^ Minimalism and art-cinema narration in Gus van Sant's Gerry, Elephant and Last Days - Iowa State University
- ^ The Tarkovsky legacy: Andrei Tarkovsky and his arthouse impact|Sight & Sound|BFI
- ^ Warhol Film Screening——Minimalism and Seriality: Part II|Whitney Museum of American Art
- ^ One Sound After Another: Film and West Coast Minimalism|Walker Art Center
- ^ The Burden of Other People's Thoughts: Don Hertzfeldt Talks ‘World of Tomorrow Episode Two’|Animation World Network
- ^ The Love Witch director Anna Biller: ‘I’m in conversation with the pornography all around us’|Movies|The Guardian
- ^ Review: From Iran, '3 Faces' Finds Nuance In The Clash Of Old And New : NPR
- ^ FILM VIEW; The Giddy Minimalism of Jim Jarmusch - The New York Times
- ^ Bloomsbury Collections - The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov
- ^ Norman McLaren - Google Books (pg.140)
- ^ The Master of Minimalism / Retrospective of filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni's innovative films spans six decades - SFGATE
- ^ A Hollis Frampton Odyssey Blu-ray Review | High Def Digest
- ^ Pop cinema: aesthetic conversations between art and the moving-image - ERA
- ^ Light Cone - FIVE FILMS BY LARRY GOTTHEIM
- ^ Abbas Kiarostami: Life as Art|BAMPFA
- ^ What Makes Kiarostami a Modern Master? Start Here - The New York Times
- ^ 10 Great Minimalist Films That Are Worth Your Time - Taste of Cinema
- ^ 10 Great Minimalist Films That Are Worth Your Time - Taste of Cinema - Page 2 - Taste of Cinema
- ^ Best Minimalist Movies|12 Top Minimalism Films Ever - Cinemaholic
- ^ 10 Minimalist Horror Movies|The Young Folks
- ^ 6 Minimalist Sci Fi Movies to Watch - TectoGizmo
- ^ 20 Minimalist Movies Which Redefined Film-Making - Storypick
- ^ Memory and Minimalism in Roma|Medium
- ^ Industrial Arts: Michelangelo Antonioni's Red Desert and Minimalism and Land Art - National Gallery of Art
- ^ Look of the Week: the sleek futuristic minimalism of Gattaca|SYFY WIRE
- ^ 9 Minimalist Films That Will Open Your Eyes - Minimal Daily
- ^ Repast is prologue - Los Angeles Times
- ^ Minimalism Takes Flight : Hyperallergic
- ^ The Best Movies of 2020|IndieWire
- ^ 20 Most Underrated Movies of the Decade (2010-2019) - The Cinemaholic
- ^ The Best Independent Films of 2020|Flickering Myth
- ^ Acting Naturally — Point of View Magazine
- ^ THE WOMAN WHO RAN (2020) REVIEW – HONG SANG-SOO’S TYPICALLY SUBTLE AND PLAYFULLY KNOTTY DRAMA - High On Films
- ^ 'Away' review - The Hollywood Reporter
- ^ Here Are Six Indie Animated Features That Deserve An Oscar Nomination This Year|Cartoon Brew
- ^ ORIGINAL-CIN YEAR IN REVIEW: 2020’S BEST AND WORST MOVIES —— Original Cin
- ^ This new Netflix short shows how parents grieve after a tragedy - Legacy.com
- ^ Minimalist movies: 5 different approach|Yapim Ekibi
- ^ BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW — Film Review — ZekeFilm
- ^ Interview: “Beyond The Black Rainbow” Director Panos Cosmatos Talks His Bizarre Sci-Fi/Horror Fever Dream|Complex
- ^ Best Films of the 1950s|White City Cinema
- ^ That's not my finger! and the rest of this week's movies|Bleader
- ^ Chantal Akerman: celebrating the exquisite cinematic moments of a tremendous talent|Chantal Akerman|The Guardian
- ^ Review|This '50s Danish flick will keep you on your toes - The Crimson White
- ^ Yasujiro Ozu: like Austen, he tells the same satisfying story again and again|Movies|The Guardian
- ^ Clerks: 10 Ways It Established Kevin Smith's Style|ScreenRant
- ^ The Rise of Minimalist Filmmaking, and Analysis of Best Picture of Best Picture Oscar Winner 'Nomadland' - Hollywood Insider
- ^ Gerry|NW Film Center
- ^ Androgyny and aliens in eighties cult film 'Liquid Sky' on Amazon Prime Video - Stream On Demand
- ^ Toronto Review: Godfrey Reggio Celebrates 30 Years Since 'Koyaanisqatsi' With Extraordinary Philip Glass-Scored 'Vistors'|IndieWire
- ^ After Koyaanisqatsi, Godfrey Reggio's Vistors : The Conversation
- ^ Jim Jarmusch|AV Club
- ^ Baghead - CINEMABLEND
- ^ Baghead - Paste
- ^ Indie film pulls nothing interesting out of the bag - Baltimore Sun
- ^ An exploration of foreign films: Unique cinematography and minimalist themes distinguish ‘Tokyo Story’|The Stanford Daily
- ^ 10 Essential Aki Kaurismaki Films - High On Films
- ^ 47th Chicago International Film Festival Report Card|White City Cinema
- ^ 10 essential films from the 'Minimalist' genre|Far Out Magazine
- ^ Abbas Kiarostami: sophisticated, self-possessed master of cinematic poetry|Abbas Kiarostami|The Guardian
- ^ TASTE OF CHERRY|Cleveland Institute of Art
- ^ Scott MacDonald on Hollis Frampton - Artfourm International
- ^ In Hollis Frampton's 'Surface Tension', a Stroll Through 1968 New York, in 160 Seconds - The New York Times
- ^ The Complete Works of Influential Experimental Filmmaker Michael Snow Come to New York - Hyperallergic
- ^ Duel at 50: Steven Spielberg's debut remains a ferocious thriller|Steven Spielberg|The Guardian
- ^ Denis Villeneuve's Dune Shows the Limits of the Filmmaker's Sci-Fi|Collider
- ^ The Red Turtle review — rapturous minimalism from Studio Ghibli|Film|The Guardian
- ^ The Best 90s Movies|Incredible Films From The 1990s|Time Out
- ^ Why Critics Hate the Movies You Love|The Young Ones
- ^ The Woman Who Ran (2020)|MUBI
- ^ Film of the week:Certain Women, Kelly Reichardt's minimalist Montana triptych|BFI
- ^ A Brief Introduction to the Remarkable Films of Kelly Reichardt|AnOther Magazine
- ^ 'Koyaanisqatsi' renews emotion in minimalist film - Deseret News
- ^ The 50 Best First Films Ever Made - MTV
- ^ A Century of Inspiration - The American Cinematographer
- ^ The 10 Most Cinematic Movies With Minimalist Plot — Page 2 — Taste of Cinema
- ^ The 10 Most Cinematic Movies With Minimalist Plot — Taste of Cinema
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