American Eccentric Cinema  

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American Eccentric Cinema is a mode of contemporary American filmmaking that emerged in what has been termed the metamodern or New Sincerity. Its attachment to indie cinema has led some to consider it a movement and genre of cinema in the United States. Its key filmmakers are at times referred to as "The American Eccentrics". It occurred during the 1990s and 2000s, when indie directors sought to create films that diverted from the style and content of Hollywood franchise films .

List of notable films

• Marie Antoinette (2006)
• Bottle Rocket (1996)
• Boogie Nights (1997)
• Slacker (1991)
• Dazed and Confused (1993)
• Poison (1990)
• Safe (1995)
• Spanking the Monkey (1994)
• Flirting with Disaster (1996)
• Being John Malkovich (1999)
• Adaptation (2002)
• Human Nature (2001)
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
• Fight Club (1999)
• Lost in Translation (2003)
• Donnie Darko (2001)
• Your Friends & Neighbors (1998)
• The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
• The Squid and the Whale (2005)
• Citizen Ruth (1996)
• Election (1999)
• About Schmidt (2002)
• Sideways (2004)
• Before Sunrise (2004)
• I Heart Huckabees (2004)
• Waking Life (2001)
• Magnolia (1999)
• Velvet Goldmine (1998)
• Far From Heaven (2002)
• Anomalisa (2015)
• Happiness (1998)
• Very Bad Things (1998)
• Storytelling (2001)
• Welcome to the Dollhouse (1996)
• In the Company of Men (1997)
• The Unbelievable Truth (1990)
• Trust (1991)
• Henry Fool (1997)
• The Ice Storm (1997)
• 2 Days in the Valley (1996)
• Rushmore (1998)
• The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
• The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
• Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

See also

• Generation X
• Toronto New Wave
• Independent Spirit Awards
• Postmodernist film
• Slow cinema
• Transnational cinema
• Music videos
• Frat Pack
• Alternative rock
• Cinephilia