Minimalist film

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Minimalist cinema is related to the art of minimalism.

Notable filmmakers[]

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[]

  • 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[]

References[]

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  2. ^ The art of Chloe Zhao, Arts - THE BUSINESS TIMES
  3. ^ Kelly Reichardt: Powerfully Observant|MoMA
  4. ^ The Beginner's Guide: Yasujiro Ozu, Director|Film Inquiry
  5. ^ The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Directed by The Archers|Talk Cinema
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  7. ^ The Tarkovsky legacy: Andrei Tarkovsky and his arthouse impact|Sight & Sound|BFI
  8. ^ Warhol Film Screening——Minimalism and Seriality: Part II|Whitney Museum of American Art
  9. ^ One Sound After Another: Film and West Coast Minimalism|Walker Art Center
  10. ^ The Burden of Other People's Thoughts: Don Hertzfeldt Talks ‘World of Tomorrow Episode Two’|Animation World Network
  11. ^ The Love Witch director Anna Biller: ‘I’m in conversation with the pornography all around us’|Movies|The Guardian
  12. ^ Review: From Iran, '3 Faces' Finds Nuance In The Clash Of Old And New : NPR
  13. ^ FILM VIEW; The Giddy Minimalism of Jom Jarmusch - The New York Times
  14. ^ Bloomsbury Collections - The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov
  15. ^ Norman McLaren - Google Books (pg.140)
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  17. ^ A Hollis Frampton Odyssey Blu-ray Review | High Def Digest
  18. ^ Pop cinema: aesthetic conversations between art and the moving-image - ERA
  19. ^ Light Cone - FIVE FILMS BY LARRY GOTTHEIM
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  21. ^ What Makes Kiarostami a Modern Master? Start Here - The New York Times
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  32. ^ Repast is prologue - Los Angeles Times
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  40. ^ Here Are Six Indie Animated Features That Deserve An Oscar Nomination This Year|Cartoon Brew
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  42. ^ This new Netflix short shows how parents grieve after a tragedy - Legacy.com
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  44. ^ BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW — Film Review — ZekeFilm
  45. ^ Interview: “Beyond The Black Rainbow” Director Panos Cosmatos Talks His Bizarre Sci-Fi/Horror Fever Dream|Complex
  46. ^ Best Films of the 1950s|White City Cinema
  47. ^ That's not my finger! and the rest of this week's movies|Bleader
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  66. ^ TASTE OF CHERRY|Cleveland Institute of Art
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  68. ^ In Hollis Frampton's 'Surface Tension', a Stroll Through 1968 New York, in 160 Seconds - The New York Times
  69. ^ The Complete Works of Influential Experimental Filmmaker Michael Snow Come to New York - Hyperallergic
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  71. ^ Denis Villeneuve's Dune Shows the Limits of the Filmmaker's Sci-Fi|Collider
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