Because there is no such thing as ONE SINGLE MONOLITHIC BLOB called the "Art Cinema Tradition"!
Some of the genres, film movements, film styles, schools in cinema history (1895-2012) :
3D Cinema (USA) 1952- [timeline]
[Norman McLaren, Alfred Hitchcock, André De Toth, Jack Arnold, Paul Morrissey, Richard Fleischer, Stephen Low, Graeme Ferguson, James Cameron, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Ben Stassen, Robert Rodriguez, Bob Peterson, Steven Spielberg]
American Independent Cinema First Wave (USA) 1968?
[Stan Brakhage, John Cassavetes, Roger Corman, Jonas Mekas, Russ Meyer, George Kuchar, George Romero, Andy Warhol, John Waters, Frederick Wiseman]
ANIMATION (World) 1905-
[Segundo de Chomon, John Stuart Blackton, Emile Cohl, Lotte Reiniger, Noburo Ofuji, Robert Lapoujade, Enest & Gisèle Ansorge, Eliott Noyes, Ishu Patel, Norman McLaren, Jan Werkmajer, Ladislas Starevitch, Jean Painlevé, Jiri Trnka]
Anime (Japan) 1960-
[Osamu Tezuka, Yoshiyuki Tomino, Hayao Miyazaki, Toshiro Kawamoto, Katsuhiro Otomo, Mamoru Oshii, Satoshi Kon, Hideaki Anno]
Australian Film Revival / Australian Film Renaissance / Australian New Wave (Australia) 1971-1989 = 18 years
[Peter Weir, George Miller, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Ken Hannam, Fred Schepisi, Phillip Noyce, Tim Burstall, John Duigan, Brian Trenchard-Smith]
B Picture (USA) 1960-50 = 10 years
[Edgar George Ulmer, Joseph H. Lewis, Ted Tetzlaff, Allan Dwan, Don Weis, Jack Arnold, Jacques Tourneur, Nathan Juran]
BAROQUE 1954-
[Dario Argento, Raul Ruiz, Robert Aldrich, James Cameron] critic : Jean Rousset
Berliner Schule (Germany) 2000-
[Thomas Arslan, Christian Petzold, Angela Schanelec, Valeska Grisebach, Benjamin Heisenberg, Christoph Hochhäusler, Ulrich Köhler, Jan Krüger, Henner Winckler, Maren Ade, Sylke Enders, Maria Speth, Nicolas Wackerbarth, Henrike Goetz, Soeren Voigt, Matthias Luthardt, Ayse Polat, Stefan Krohmer]
Blaxploitation (USA) 1971-79 = 9 years
[Melvin Van Peebles, Gordon Parks, Kyle Onstott, Jack Hill, Jack Arnold, William Girdler, William Crain, Sidney Poitier, Oscar Williams, Michael Schultz, Sam O'Steen, Larry Cohen]
BLOCKBUSTER 1972-
[Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Jerry Bruckheimer, Michael Bay, James Cameron]
Bollywood (India) 1970-
[Ashutosh Gowariker, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Mani Ratnam, Rakesh Mehta, Mira Nair, Chadha, A. Khan, Dutta, Karan Johar, Aditya Chopra, Rakesh Roshan]
Brighton School (UK) 1898-1904 = 6 years
[George Albert Smith, James A. Williamson]
British Social Realism (UK)
[John Boorman, Ken Loach, Joseph Losey, Nicholas Roeg, Ken Russell, Peter Watkins]
Budapest school / Documentarism (Hungary) 1969-1985 (1972-1984) = 16 years
[Dárday István, Szalai Györgyi, Ember Judit, Schiffer Pál, Tarr Béla, Gazdag Gyula, Elek Judit, Gyöngyössy Imre, Kabai Barna, Schiffer Pal, Darday Istvan, Vitezy Laszlo, Gyarmathy Livia, Gulyas Gyula, Gulyas Janos, Sandor Sara, Almasi Tamas, Istvan Gaal]
Burlesque 1910-29 = 19 years
[Max Linder, Fatty Arbuckle, Harry Langdon, Charles Chaplin, Mack Sennett, Harold Lloyd, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy]
CARTOON (World) 1892-
[Emile Reynaud, John Stuart Blackton, Emile cohl, Winsor McCay, Walt Disney, Max&Dave Fleischer, Berthold Bartosch, Mickhail Tsekhanovski, Hector Hoppin, Anthony Gross, Chuck Jones, Tex Avery, William Hannah & Joseph Barbera, Norman McLaren, Paul Grimault, Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Walerian Borowczky, Wan Laiming, Ralph Bakshi, René Laloux, Youri Norstein, Jean-François Laguionie, Frédérick Back, Isho Takahata, Andrei Khrjanovski, Hayao Miyazaki, John Lasseter, Nick Park, Peter Lord, Brad Bird, Marjane Satrapi, Michel Ocelot, Sylvain Chomet]
Caligarism (Germany) 1920-27 = 17 years
[Karl Heinz Martin, Paul Wegener, Carl Boese, R. Wiene, Fritz Lang, F. W. Murnau, Paul Leni, G. W. Pabst, Karl Grüne, Lupu-Pick] critic : Henri Langlois, Lotte H. Eisner
Chambara / Jidaigeki / Samurai cinema (Japan) 1920s
[Daisuke Itō, Masahiro Makino]
Chanchada (Brazil) 1949-59 = 10 years
[Oscarito, Grande Otelo, Zezé Macedo, Zé Trindade]
Chaos Cinema (USA) 1999-
[Wachowski, Tom Twyker, Tony Scott, Paul Greengrass, Christopher Nolan, Jaume Balagueró, Darren Aronofsky, Marc Forster, Kathryn Bigelow, Michael Bay] Critic : Matthias Stork
Cinema da Boca do Lixo / Mouth of Garbage Cinema (Brazil) 1960-70s
[Carlos Reichenbach, Luiz Castelini, Alfredo Sternheim, Juan Bajon, Cláudio Cunha, Walter Hugo Khouri, Fauzi Mansur, José Mojica Marins] critic : Rogério Sganzerla
Cinema djidid / Algerian New wave (Algeria) 1967-
[Mohamed Bouamari, M. Lakhdar Hamina]
Cinema du look (France) 1981-1991 = 10 years
[Jean-Jacques Benex, Luc Besson, Leos Carax]
Cinéma du Québec libre (Québec/Canada) 1963-1980 = 17 years
[Gilles Groulx, Michel Brault, Arthur Lamothe, Pierre Perrault, Claude Jutra, Gilles Carle, Jean-Pierre Lefebvre, Denys Arcand, Francis Mankiewicz, André Forcier, Jean Beaudin]
Cinema Nôvo (Brazil) 1962-72 = 10 years
[Glauber Rocha, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Carlos Diegues, Joaquim Pedro de Andrad, Linduarte Noronha, Ruy Guerra, Leon Hirszman]
Cinema of Transgression (USA) 1984-1990 = 6 years
[Nick Zedd, Kembra Pfahler, Casandra Stark, Beth B, Tommy Turner, Richard Kern and Lydia Lunch]
Cinéma Pur / Absolute Film / Integral Cinema (France) 1924-29 = 5 years
[René Clair, Fernand Léger, Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling, Germaine Dulac, Man Ray] critique : Henri Chomette
Cinéma-vérité (France) / Direct Cinema (UK) 1959-
[Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin, Mario Ruspoli, Robert Drew, Richard Leacock, Michel Brault, Pierre Perrault, Chris Marker]
La Cinematografia Futurista / Italian Futurism (Italy) 1909-
[Arnaldo Ginna, Bruno Corra, Marinetti, Balla Chiti, Setimelli, Anton Bragaglia] critique : Canudo, Anton Bragaglia, Verdone, Dziga Vertov, Alberta
Cinématographe (France) 1950-1983 = 33 years
[Robert Bresson] critique: Robert Bresson
Classic Hollywood (USA)
[Frank Capra, Michael Curtiz, Victor Fleming, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, John Huston, Ernst Lubitsch, Anthony Mann, Nicholas Ray, Preston Sturges, Raoul Walsh, Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, William Wyler]
Comédie burlesque (Mexico) 1936-58 = 22 years
[Cantinflas, Tin Tan]
Comédie de mœurs (Mexico) 1936-58 = 22 years
[Pedro Infante]
Dadaïsme (Germany, USA, France) 1916-1925 = 9 years
[René Clair, Tristan Tzara, Kurt Schwitters, Man Ray, Fernand Léger, Hans Richter] critique : Gianni Rondolino, George Sadoul
COMEDY 1913-
[Ernst Lubitsch, Howard Hawks, George Cukor, Sacha Guitry, Alexander Medvekine, Marcel Pagnol, Frank Capra, Luis Garcia Berlanga, Frank Tashlin, Billy Wilder, Dino Risi, Mario Monicelli, Otar Iosselani, Woody Allen, Ettore Scola, Blake Edwards, Roberto Begnini]
dGeneration (China) 2009-
[Huang Weikai, Zhao Dayong, Du Haibing, Xu Tong, Li Ning, Xu Xin]
Digital Cinema (USA) 1999-
[Michael Mann, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, David Lynch, James Cameron, George Lucas, John Lasseter]
DOCUMENTARY (World) 1895-
[Lumière, Flaherty, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Jean Rouch, Agnès Varda, Johan Van der Keuken, Raymond Depardon, Claude Lanzmann, Frederik Wiseman, Errol Morris, Werner Herzog]
Divismo (Italy) 1913-20 = 7 years
[Mario Caserini, Alberto Degli Abbati, Baldassare Negroni, Nino Oxilia, Carmine Gallone, Gustavo Serena, Giovanni Pastrone, Giuseppe DeLiguoro, Roberto Roberti, Amaleto Palmeri]
Dogme 95 (Denmark) 1995-2002 = 7 years
[Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Kristian Levring, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Jean-Marc Barr]
Ecole Russe de Paris (France) 1920-37 = 17 years
[Viatcheslav Tourjansky, Ivan Mosjoukine, Alexander Volkoff, Jean Epstein, Marcel L'Herbier, René clair, Jacques Feyder, Jean Renoir, Anatole Litvak, Fedor Ozep, Victor Trivas]
Egyptian Golden Age (Egypt) 1940-52 = 12 years
Escuela de Cuzco (Peru) 1961-
[L. Figueroo, E. Nishiyama, C. Villanueva]
ESPIONNAGE (World) 1915-
[Henri Fescourt, Henri Pouctal, Fritz Lang, Josef von Sternberg, Alfred Hitchcock, George Wilhelm Pabst, Raymond Bernard, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Anatole Litvak, King Vidor, Raoul Walsh, Billy Wilder, Henry Hathaway, Jacques Tourneur, William A. Wellman, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Samuel Fuller, Carol Reed, Alfred Weidenmann, Ronald Neame, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Robert Aldrich, Terence Young, Guy Hamilton, Phil Karlson, Stanley Donen, Martin Ritt, John Huston, Michel Deville, Roman Polanski, Martin Campbell, Roger Spottiswoode, Paul Greengrass, Sam Mendes]
ESSAI FILM (World) 1922-
[Benjamin Christensen, Jean Vigo, Luis Buñuel, Joris Ivens, Nicole Védrès, Pierre Braunberger, Georges Franju, Marc Allégret, Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Federico Fellini, Marcel Ophuls, Orson Welles, Luc Moullet, Agnès Varda, Wim Wenders, Louis Malle, Michael Moore, Robert Kramer, Jean-Luc Godard, Romain Goupil]
Fifth Generation (China) 1983-
[Chen Kaige, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Zhang Junzhao, Zhang Yimou]
Film Noir (USA) 1941-51 = 10 years
[John Huston, Edward Dmytryk, Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger, Michael Curtiz, Edgar G. Ulmer, Charles Vidor, Howard Hawks, Jacques Tourneur, Orson Welles, Robert Wise, Nicholas Ray, William Wyler, Robert Aldrich]
FILMED THEATRE 1907-
[Marcel Pagnol, Sacha guitry, Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Jean Cocteau, Max Ophüls, Alf Sjöberg, Elia Kazan, Joseph Mankiewicz, Serguei Youtkevitch, Grigori Kozintsev, Ariane Mouchkine, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, Manoel de Oliveira, Alain Resnais, Kenneth Branagh, Eugene Green]
Filmo Caligraffico (Italy) 1940-44 = 4 years
[Mario Soldati, M. Camerini, Luigi Chiarini, Renato Castellani, Fernandino M. Pogglio, Alberto Lattuda]
Films de Cangaceiro (Brazil) 1953-71 = 14 years
Found Footage Thriller (USA-Spain) 1980-
[Ruggero Deodato, Rémy Belvaux, Dean Alioto, Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez, Fred Vogel, Jaume Balagueró, Matt Reeves, Oren Peli]
Free Cinema (UK) 1952-1959 = 7 years
[Lindsay Anderson, Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson] critique : Alan Cooke, Richard Anderson, Gavin Lambert
Generation 56 (Czechozlovakia) 1956-
[V. Jasny, K. Kachyna, F. Vlacil]
German Expressionism (Germany) 1918-1926 (1920-1931) = 8 years
[Robert Wiene, Paul Wegener, Fritz Lang, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Paul Leni, Arthur Robison] Critique : Lotte Eisner, Siegfried Kracauer
Giallo - Gore (USA-Italy) 1963-1992 = 29 years
[Mario Bava, Dario Argento, H.G. Lewis, Andy Milligan, David Graham, J.G. Patterson, Jesse Franco, Ruggero Deodato, Lucio Fulci, Umberto Lenzi, Joe D’Amato, G.A. Romero, Wes Craven]
Grierson School / Documentary Film Movement (UK) 1926-50 = 24 years
[John Grierson, Robert J. Flaherty, Basil Wright, Stuart Legg, Edgar Anstey, Arthur Elton, Alberto Cavalcanti, Harry Watt, David MacDonald, Humphrey Jennings, Stewart McAllister, Pat Jackson, John Eldrige]
Le Groupe des Cinq (Switzerland) 1969-1980 = 11 years
[Alain Tanner, Claude Goretta, Jean-Louis roy, Michel Soutter, Jean-Jacques Lagrange, Yves Yersin] critique : Freddy Buache, Michel Boujut, Christian Dimitriu
Grupo Cine Liberación (Argentina) 1962-1976 = 14 years
[Fernando Solanas, Octavio Getino, Gerardo Vallejo, grupo Realizadores de Mayo, Enrique and Nemesio Juárez, Pablo Szir]
Guerilla Film (World) 1971-?
[Melvin Van Peebles, Spike Lee, Gregg Araki, Darren Aronofsky, Shyam Madhavan Sarada, Albert Serra, Lisandro Alonso, Miguel Gomes, Raya Martin, Denis Côté, Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, Vincent Gallo, Harmony Korine, Josh & Benny Safdie, Bruce LaBruce, Valérie Massadian, Terutarô Osanaï, Alex Ross Perry, Alessandro Comodin, Djinn Carrénard]
Hammer films (UK) 1955-74 = 19 years
[Michael Carreras, Terence Fisher, Freddie Francis, Tudor Gates, John Gilling, Anthony Hinds, Jimmy Sangster, Peter Sasdy, Harry Robertso]
Hays Code (USA) 1934-66 = 32 years
Hong Kong New Wave (Hong Kong) 1979-
[John Woo, Wong Kar-wai, Tsui Hark, Ann Hui] Jackie Chan, Ching Siu-Tung, Ringo Lam, Johnny To, Tsui Hark, Wong Kar Wai, John Woo, Corey Yuen]
Impressionisme (France) 1919-1929 = 10 years
[Gance, L'Herbier, Dulac, Delluc, Epstein, Vigo]
Indie Film 2nd Wave (USA) 1990-
[Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach, Joel and Ethan Coen, Todd Haynes, Jim Jarmusch, Spike Lee, Richard Linklater, Michael Moore, Alexander Payne, Steven Soderbergh, Quentin Tarantino, Gus Van Sant, Terry Zwigoff]
Internationale Situationiste (France) 1957-1962 = 5 years
[Guy-Ernest Debord, René Viénet, Gérard Cohen, Ngai Hong]
Iranian New Wave (Iran) 1968-
[Dariush Mehrjui, Abbas Kiarostami, Forough Farrokhzad, Majid Majidi, Mohsen Mahkmalbaf, Jafar Panahi, Samira Mahkmalbaf, Asghar Farhadi, Mohammad Rassoulof, Bahman Ghobadi, Rafi Pitts, Marzieh Meshkini, Reza Mir-Karimi, Hana Mahkmalbaf]
Italian neorealism (Italy) 1942-51-55 = 13 years
[Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Lattuada, Luigi Zampa, Aldo Vergano, Giuseppe De Santis, Luchino Visconti, Pietro Germi] Critiques: Cesare Zavattini, André Bazin, Freddy Buache
Italian New Wave (Italy) 1960-
[Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Gillo Pontecorvo, Francesco Rosi, Valerio Zurlini, Ermanno Olmi, Bernardo Bertolucci, Marco Ferreri, Paolo & Vittorio Taviani, Ettore Scola]
J-Horror (Japan) 1960-
[Kyoshi Kurosawa, Hideo Nakata, Takashi Miike, Masaki Kobayashi, Nobuo Nakagawa, Takashi Shimizu, Kaneto Shindo, Sion Sono, Shinya Tsukamoto]
Kammerspielfilm (Germany) 1921-1929 = 9 years
[Paul Leni, F.W. Murnau, Karl Grune, Lupu-Pick, Paul Czinner, G. W. Pabst, E. A. Dupont, Carl Boese, Bruno Rahn, J. May]
KINO (Canada-World) 1999-
[Christian Laurence]
Kino-Pravda (USSR) 1920ies
[Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, Mikhail Kaufman]
Kitchen Sink Realism (UK) 1955-69 = 14 years
[Tony Richardson, Lindsay Anderson, Karel Reisz, Ken Loach, John Schlesinger, Jack Clayton] critique : Lindsay Anderson, Nina Hibbin, Andrew Higson
Kynikós kinimatográfo (Greece) 2005-
[Yorgos Lanthimos, Athina Rachel Tsangari]
Korean Hallyu (South Korea) 1997-
[Kang Je-gyu, Kwak Jae-yong, Kang Woo-suk, Kim Ji-woon, Bong Joon-Ho, Hong Sang-Soo, Kim Ki-Duk, Lee Chang-Dong, Park Chan-Wook]
Lettrisme (France) 1945-
[Isidore Isou (Jean-Isidore Goldstein), Maurice Lemaître, Guy Debord (Hurlements en faveur de Sade), Gil J. Wolman, François Dufrêne, Marc'O]
Louis & Auguste Lumière (France) 1895-1905 = 10 years
MANNERISM 1960-
[Brian De Palma, Jean-Pierre Melville, Sergio Leone]
Georges Méliès (France) 1896-1913 = 17 years
Mélodrame à tangos (Argentina) 1933-42 = 9 years
[Libertad Lamarque, Hugo Del Carnil]
Mockumentary 1933-
[Luis Buñuel, Richard Lester, Orson Welles, Rob Reiner, Woody Allen, Jim McBride, Eric Idle, Peter Jackson, Larry Charles] critique : Jane Roscoe, Craig Hight
Movida (Spain) 1980-
[Pedro Almodovar, Iván Zulueta, Fernando Trueba, Fernando Colomo]
Mumblecore (USA) 2001-
[Andrew Bujalski, Lynn Shelton, Aaron Katz, Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass, Joe Swanberg]
MUSICAL 1929-
[Harry Beaumont, LeRoy, Grigori Alexandrov, Ernst Lubitsch, Busby Berkeley, Vincente Minnelli, Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, George Cukor, Rouben Mamoulian, Jacques Demy, William Wyler]
Musical Carnavalesque (Brazil) 1933-37 = 4 years
[Carmen Miranda]
Narcocinema / Videohome (Mexico) 1980s
[Jorge Reynoso, José Luis Urquieta, Alfredo Gurrola, Rubén Galindo]
New Argentinian Cinema wave (Argentina) 1991-
[Fabian Bielinsky, Israel Adrián Caetano, Pablo Trapero, Carlos Sorin, Lucrecia Martel, Lisandro Alonso]
New Documentary Movement (China) 1990-
[Wu Wenguang, Wang Bing, Li Hong]
New French Extremity (France) 1998-
[François Ozon, Gaspar Noé, Catherine Breillat, Bruno Dumont, Claire Denis, Patrice Chereau, Bertrand Bonello, Marina de Van, Leos Carax, Philippe Grandrieux, Jean-Claude Brisseau, Jacques Nolot, Virginie Despentes, Coralie Trinh Thi, Alexandre Aja] Critic : James Quandt, Jonathan Romney
New Hollywood / American New Wave (USA) 1967-1982 = 15 years
[Francis Ford Coppola, Arthur Penn, Martin Scorsese, Roman Polanski, Peter Bogdanovich, Mike Nichols, Robert Altman, Hal Ashby, John Schlesinger, William Friedkin, Michael Cimino, Woody Allen, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg]
New Queer Cinema (USA) 1991-
[Todd Haynes, Isaac Julien, Derek Jarman, Tom Kalin, Gregg Araki, Ang Lee, Bruce LaBruce, Gus Van Sant, John Cameron Mitchell] critic : B. Ruby Rich
New Sensitivity (Israel) 1971-
[Avraham Heffner. Ephraim Kishon, Moshé Mizrahi]
Nickelodeon (USA) 1905-13 = 8 years
No Wave Cinema / New Cinema (USA) 1976-1985 = 9 years
[Amos Poe, Vivienne Dick, John Lurie] critic : Marc Masters
Nollywood (Nigeria) 1992-
[Chris Obi Rapu, Chico Ejiro, Kingsley Ogoro, Zeb]
Nordestern (Brazil) 1925-96
[Tancredo Seabra, Abrao Benjamin, Fouad Anderas, Carlos Coimbra, Aurelio Teixeira, Paulo Gil Soares, Glauber Rocha, Carlos Mergulhao, Oswald de Oliveira, Eduardo Coutinho, Rosenberg Cariry, Lima Barreto, Paul Caldao, Lirio Ferreiro]
Noul val românesc / Romanian New Wave (Romania) 2004-
[Cristian Mungiu, Cristi Puiu, Cristian Nemescu, Cătălin Mitulescu, Radu Muntean, Corneliu Porumboiu]
La Nouvelle Vague (France) 1958-1963 = 5 years (1956-1965)
[Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Éric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette, Jean Rouch, Louis Malle, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Pierre Kast] critique : François Truffaut, JLG, Jean Douchet, Antoine de Baecque
Novo Cinema (Portugal) 1963-74 = 11 years
[Paulo Rocha, António de Macedo, Fernando Lopes, António da Cunha Telles, António Campos]
Nuevo Cine / Argentine New Wave (Argentina) 1959-
[F. Birri, L. Murua, M. Antin, D. J. Kohon, R. Magica]
Nuevo Cine Mexicano (Mexico) 1990-
[Arturo Ripstein, Alfonso Arau, Alfonso Cuarón, María Novaro, Guillermo del Toro, Jorge Fons, Antonio Serrano, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Carlos Carrera]
Nuberu Bagu / Japanese New Wave (Japan) 1956-1976 = 20 years
[Susumu Hani, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Yasuzo Masumura, Masahiro Shinoda, Nagisa Oshima, Shohei Imamura]
Oberhausen generation / German New Wave (Germany) 1961-1971 = 10 years
[Volker Schlöndorff, Peter Fleischmann, Alexandre Kluge, Ferdinant, Khittl, Herbert Vesely, Edgar Reitz, Christian Rischert, Franz Josef Spieker, Jean-Marie Straub, Theodor Kotulla, Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder]
Painted Film 1935-
[Len Lye, Norman McLaren, Stan Brakhage]
Parallel Cinema / Art Cinema / Indian New Wave (India) 1952-1976 = 24 years
[Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen, Bimal Roy, V. Shantaram, Chetan Anand, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Shyam Benegal, Jahnu Barua, Bhabendra Nath Saikia]
Participatory cinema / Cinema 2.0 (World) 2006-
[Brett Gaylor, Matt Hanson, Nicolás Alcalá, Timo Vuorensola, Kevin Macdonald]
Peplum / Sword and Sandal (Italy) 1953-62 = 9 years
[Sergio Leone, Mario Bava]
Pinku eiga / Eroduction (Japan) 1962-82 = 20 years
Age of Competition / First Wave (Japan) 1962-71 = 9 years
[Satoru Kobayashi, Tetsuji Takechi, Seijun Suzuki, Kōji Wakamatsu, Kan Mukai, Kin'ya Ogawa, Shinya Yamamoto, Kan Mukai, Giichi Nishihara, Kōji Seki, Giichi Nishihara]
Roman Porno / Second Wave (Japan) 1971-82 = 11 years
[Teruo Ishii, Norifumi Suzuki, Shunya Ito, Masaru Konuma, Tatsumi Kumashiro, Noboru Tanaka, Yasuharu Hasebe]
Pluginmanifesto 2001-
[Jonathan Brann, Geert Wachtelaer] Critic : Ana Kronschnabl, Anna Notaro, mayoke, Simone Kurtzke
Poliziottesco / Italo-crime / Euro-crime / Italian crime films (Italy) 1968-1980
[Mario Bianchi, Alfonso Brescia, Enzo G. Castellari, Damiano Damiani, Alberto De Martino, Ruggero Deodato, Lucio Fulci, Marino Girolami, Romolo Girolami, Umberto Lenzi, Fernando Di Leo, Carlo Lizzani, Sergio Martino, Stelvio Massi, Giuliano Montaldo, Sergio Sollima, Duccio Tessari]
Polish School (Poland) 1955-1965 = 10 years
[Andrzej Wajda, Andrzej Munk, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Wojciech Has]
Poliziottesco / Italo-crime / Euro-crime / Italian crime films (Italy) 1968-1980
[Mario Bianchi, Alfonso Brescia, Enzo G. Castellari, Damiano Damiani, Alberto De Martino, Ruggero Deodato, Lucio Fulci, Marino Girolami, Romolo Girolami, Umberto Lenzi, Fernando Di Leo, Carlo Lizzani, Sergio Martino, Stelvio Massi, Giuliano Montaldo, Sergio Sollima, Duccio Tessari]
POSTMODERN 1990-
[Joel & Ethan Coen, Tim Burton, Oliver Stone, Jean-Jacques Beinex, Luc Besson, Quentin Tarantino]
Prague Spring / Czechoslovak New Wave (Czechoslovakia) 1963-1968 = 5 years (1962-1971)
[Miloš Forman, Věra Chytilová, Ivan Passer, Jan Svankmajer, Jiří Menzel, Frantisek Vlacil, Karel Kachyna, Jaromil Jireš, Jaroslav Papoušek, Jan Němec, Evald Schorm, Pavel Juracek, Jan Schmidt, Juraj Herz, Jiri Weiss, Jiri Krejcik, Zdenek Brynych, Vojtech Jasny, Hynek Bocan, Ladislav Rychman, Otakar Vavra, Zdenek Sirovy, Antonin Kachlik, Stanislas Milota]
Primitive Cinema (France-USA) 1895-1905 = 10 years
[Louis & Auguste Lumière; Thomas Edison; Georges Méliès; Edwin S. Porter; G.A. Smith; James Williamson; Feuillade]
Pure Film Movement (Japan) 1910-20s
[Eizō Tanaka, Masao Inoue, Thomas Kurihara, Kenji Mizoguchi]
Queercore (USA-UK) 1985-
[Kenneth Anger, Jack Smith, Andy Warhol, John Waters, Vivienne Dick, Derek Jarman] Critic : G.B. Jones, Bruce LaBruce
Ranchera Comedia (Mexico) 1936-58 = 22 years
[Tito Guizan, Jorge Negote]
Ranchero Melodrama (Mexico) 1943-64 = 21 years
[Dolorès del Rio, Mario Félix, Pédro Armen Doriz]
Réalisme Poétique (France) 1922-1957 (1954) = 35 years
[Marcel Carné, Jacques Feyder, Jean Renoir, Jean Gremillon, René Clair, Anatole Litvak, Julien Duvivier, Claude Autant-Lara, Roger Leenhardt, Yves Allégret, Marcel Pagliéro, René Wheeler, Jacques Becker, Max Ophüls, Pierre Chenal]
Réalisme Sociale (France-UK) 1955-
[André Cayatte, Paul Carpita, Maurice Pialat, Claude Miller, Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardennes, Ken Loach]
Remodernist Film (USA) 2004-
[Jesse Richards, Harris Smith, Peter Rinaldi]
Rive Gauche (France) 1950-63
[Marguerite Duras, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Henri Colpi, Jacques Demy, Agnès Varda, Jean-Pierre Melville] critique : Richard Roud
ROAD MOVIE 1969-
[Hall Bartlett, Dennis Hopper, Francis Ford Coppola, Bob Rafelson, Barba Loden, Monte Hellman, Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, Terrence Malick, Michael Cimino, Agnès Varda, David Lynch, Aki Kaurismaki, Abbas Kiarostami, Walter Salles]
SCIENCE FICTION 1902-
[Georges Méliès, Fritz Lang, Y. Protozanov, Robert Wise, Byron Haskin, Inishiro Honda, Don Siegel, Richard Fleischer, Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas, Ridley Scott, Andrei Tarkovsky, John Carpenter]
SCIENTIFIC FILM 1897-
[Dr Eugène Louis Doyen, Dr Jean Comandon, Jean Painlevé]
Sixth Generation (China) 1990-
[Jia Zhangke, Lou Ye, Wang Xiaoshuai, Zhang Yuan, Li Yang, He Yong, He Jianjun]
Socialist Realism (USSR) 1934-53 = 19 years
[S. & G. Vassiliev, Friedrich Ermler, Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, Efim Dzigan, Boris Barnet, Vladimir Legochine, Youli Raïzman, Alexandre Zarkhi, Yossif Kheïfts, Mikhaïl Romm, Mark Donskoi, Serguei Guerassimov, Alexandre Dovjenko, Lev Arnstam, Vsevolod Poudovkine, Mikhaïl Tchiaourelli, Adolf Minkin, Gerbert Rappaport, Sergeï Youtkevitch]
Soviet Montage (USSR) 1919-1930 = 11 years
[Dziga Vertov, S.M. Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Alexandr Dovjenko, Jacob Protazanov, Boris Barnet, Abraham Room, Lev Koulechov, Grigori Kozintsev] Critiques : S.M. Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Lev Koulechov
Soviet New Wave (USSR) 1962-68 = 6 years
[Andrei Tarkovsky, Mikhalkov-Kontchalovski, Paradjanov, Iosselani, Daniela, Klimov, Muratova, Panfilov]
Soviet Second New Wave (USSR) 1974-78 = 4 years
[Andrei Tarkovsky, Panfilov, Choukchine, Cheptiko, Guerman, Mikhalkov, Sokurov, Soloviev]
Soviet Parallel Cinema / New New Wave (USSR) 1980ies
[Soloviev, Muratova, Sokurov, Kanevski, Longuine, Omirbaev, Karakulov, Lapouchanski, Pitchoul, Amirkoulov, Dykhovitchni]
Spaghetti Western (Italy) 1958-80 = 22 years
[Sergio Leone, Jesús Franco, Lucio Fulci, Sergio Corbucci, Sergio Sollima]
Superhero Franchise (USA) 1978-
[Richard Donner, George Lucas, Richard Lester, Tim Burton, Christopher Nolan, Alex Proyas, Joel Schumacher, Sam Raimi, M. Night Shyamalan, Ang Lee, Guillermo del Toro]
Surréalisme (France) 1930-1969 = 39 years
Breton [L'Age d'Or, Entr'Acte, Potemkin, Ombres Blanches, Buñuel, Mack Sennett, Chaplin... King Kong, Peter Ibbetson]; general [Salvador Dali, Luis Buñuel, Man Ray, Germaine Dulac, Petr Karl, La Perle (Georges Hugnet, Henri d'Arche), Fleurs Meurtries (Roger Livet), Records 37 (Brunius), Jean Vigo, Prévert, Wilhelm Freddie (Spiste horisonter), Marcel Mariën (L'imitation du cinéma)]; USA underground [Maya Deren, Curtis Harrington, Gregory Markopoulos, Kenneth Anger, Joseph Cornell]; Canada [Lipsett]
Taiwan New Wave (Taiwan) 1982-1990 = 8 years
[Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Tsai Ming-liang, Chen Kunhou]
TEEN FLICK (USA) 1950-
[Elia Kazan, John Hughes, John Landis, Judd Apatow]
Tendency films / Left wing cinema (Japan) 1920-30s
[Kenji Mizoguchi, Daisuke Itō, Shigeyoshi Suzuki, Tomu Uchida]
Tercer Cine / Third Cinema (Latin America) 1960-70s
[Fernando Solanas, Octavio Getino, Raymundo Gleyzer, Jorge Sanjinés]
Tropicalisme (Brazil) 1968-72 = 4 years
[Nelson Pereira, Joao Pedro de Andrade, Walter Lina Jr.]
True Cinema movement (India) 1980ies
[Rajan Sarma] Critic : Rajan Sarma
Underground film / New American Cinema (USA) 1957-80s
[Stan Brakhage, Harry Everett Smith, Maya Deren, Andy Warhol, Jonas Mekas, Ken Jacobs, Ron Rice, Jack Smith, George Kuchar, Mike Kuchar, Bruce Conner, Kenneth Anger, Carmelo Bene, Jean-Pierre Bouyxou, Stephen Dwoskin, Paul Morrissey, Otto Muehl, Pierre Clémenti] Critic : P. Adams Sitney, Manny Farber, Jonas Mekas, Amos Vogel
Unspoken Cinema / Contemporary Contemplative Cinema (World) 1971-
[Chantal Akerman, Abbas Kiarostami, Fernand Deligny, Franco Piavoli, Darejan Omirbaev, Sharunas Bartas, Tarr Béla, Aleksandr Sokurov, Tsai Ming-liang, Pedro Costa, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Lav Diaz, Lisandro Alonso, Carlos Reygadas, Gus Van Sant, Fliegauf Bence, James Benning, Tacita Dean, Amat Escalante, Albert Serra, Govindan Aravindan] critique : HarryTuttle
Video Art installation (World) 1963-
[Nam June Paik, Bill Viola, Fred Forest, Peter Campus, Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Doris Totten Chase, Norman Cowie, Dan Graham, Joan Jonas, Bruce Nauman, Martha Rosler, William Wegman, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Domingo Sarrey, Juan Downey, Wolf Vostell, Slobodan Pajic, Wolf Kahlen, Peter Weibel, David Hall, Paul Wong, Lisa Steele, Colin Campbell, Miroslaw Rogala, Danny Matthys, Chantal Akerman, Akram Zaatari, Mireille Astore, Miranda July, Douglas Gordon, Martin Arnold, Matthias Müller, Lucio Fondana, Les Levine, Dennis Oppenheim, Charlotte Morman, Antoni Muntadas]
Yugoslav Black Wave / Novi Film (Yugoslavia) 1961-1972 = 11 years
[Dušan Makavejev, Živojin Pavlović, Aleksandar "Saša" Petrović, Želimir Žilnik, Miroslav "Mika" Antić, Lordan Zafranović, Mića Popović, Marko Babac]
WESTERN 1894-
[Thomas, H. Ince, J. Cruze, John Ford, Howard Hawks]
Wuxia / 武俠 / Kung Fu (China) 1966-
[King Hu, Ang Lee, Zhang Yimou, Chang Cheh]
Yeşilçam / Green pine (Turkey) 1950-70s
[Ömer Lütfi Akad, Osman Fahir Seden, Atıf Yılmaz, Memduh Ün, Metin Erksan, Halit Refiğ, Duygu Sağıroğlu, Remzi Aydın Jöntürk, Nevzat Pesen]
And these are only the identifiable groups of filmmakers with a certain common affinity, it doesn't account for all the one-off films, the insular filmmakers, the oddities escaping all possible classifications...
Related :
- "Asian Minimalism" (Bordwell) / To America Everything Foreign is SLOW / Reductive Foreign Stereotypes
- Ruptures esthétiques 1-2
- Forgotten Obsolete English word #8: Tradition
- Film Theory Branding / Neo-Neo / Wolves are not alone (the critic who cried wolf)
- Aesthetic Hegemonies in Cinema history
