This French director is the most adept in the usage of dècoupage classique.
Who is Henri Fescourt?
100
This film is probably most noteworthy for film history as the first screen appearance of the noted stage actress Eve Francis.
What is Ames de fous (Madmen’s Souls, 1918)?
100
1). This substance “inspired” Rene Clair to make his first film as a direct-writer.
What is Opium?
100
This short impressionist narrative is what Germaine Dulac is best known for today.
What is La Sourriante Madam Beudet (The Smiling Madame Beudet, 1923)?
100
These two films depend heavily on graphic editing and the setting into play of geometric relationship between adjacent images. Name one (1).
HINT: Both films are attributed in the text as being “the most important Modernist works of 1924.”
What is…?
Fernand Lèger’s Ballet mècanique
&
Rène Clair’s Entr’acte
200
This person suffered a serious leg wound in the beginning of the Great War and had to spend most of the war years recovering from it.
Who is Jean Renoir?
200
This film, about a young woman who saves French unity and monarchy, premiered at the Paris Opera.
What is Le Miracle des loups (Miracle of the Wolves, 1924)?
200
This film genre remained underdeveloped by French producers for most of the 1920s.
What is Film Comedy?
200
This film, by Man Ray, is a five-minute mix of live-action footage and "rayographs," and was conceived for the Dada event "The Bearded Heart?"
What is What is Le Retour à la Raison (1923)?
200
Un Chien Andalou has “compellingly dream-like content” but can be described with these characteristics. Name two (2).
What are…?
(A) Hard edged feel of unadorned reportage
(B) Few of the stylistic flourishes of “artistic” works of the period
300
This young director was responsible for reviving film comedy in France.
Who is René Clair?
300
This 1927 film is considered one of the best film comedies of the era.
What is un Chapeau de paille d’Italie (An Italian Straw Hat, 1927)?
300
This is the year that Andre Breton published his first Surrealist Manifesto and Kirsanov made his first film.
What is 1924?
300
This film by Kirsanov, like its predecessor, tells a story without the use of inter-titles.
What is Mènilmontant (1926)?
300
These cinematic innovations in La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc are never in the service of flights of lyricism or eruptions of character subjectivity, but rather help direct the viewer’s attention to brute physical facts of the historical reconstruction. Name two(2).
What are...?
(A) High and low angle shots
(B) Camera movements
(C) Some quite noticeable disruptions of filmic space
400
Their pragmatism and flexibility helped these two directors emerge from relative obscurity to become the leading figures of the 1930s cinema.
Who are Jacques Feyder & Julian Duvivier?
400
This film by Germaine Dulac is "loaded to the gills with optical effects, bravura editing, and other markers of authorial interpretation."
What is La Coquille et le Clergyman (The Seashell and the Clergyman, 1927)?
400
This person wrote the scenario for Un Chien andalou (an andalusian dog, 1929) with Salvador Dali.
Who is Luis Buñuel?
400
This film by Man Ray is "still marked by the spirit of Dadaist anarchy."
What is Emak Bakia (1927)? (The title means "leave me alone" in Basque).
400
List the three (3) shooting and editing options of silent cinema?
What are…?
(A) A shot
(B) An interruption of an action or situation with action from another space, or different view of the same action
(C) Use editing in a self-effacing manner (dècoupage classique)
500
Name the three (3) directors noted in the text who were considered Modernist Independents.
Who are…?
(A) Luis Buñuel
(B) Man Ray
(C) Fernand Léger
500
This film was initially inspired by Eric von Stroheim's Foolish Wives.
What is Nana (1926)?
500
This group ignored the artistic limits of commercial filmmaking in an attempt to develop a new kind of cinema art.
Who are the Modernist Independents?
500
This Surrealist feature film was financially backed by one of the most famous patrons of the arts, after Man Ray refused the Vicomte de Noailles’s initial offer.
What is L’Age d’Or (The Age of Gold, 1930)?
500
5). Name three (3) of the commercial film genres in postwar France.
HINT: There are five (5).
What are…?
(A) Serial Melodrama
(B) Hyper-emotional Family Drama/Domestic Melodramas
(C) Exotic Costume Drama
(D) Pictorialist Naturalism
(E) Historical Drama