Everybody's a Critic
Being Bazin
The Director's Chair 2.0
Clément-ine
Alternative Realism
100
This was the name of the movement created by French filmmakers in the 1950's and 60's
What is French New Wave
100
What magazine, or great influence to Bazin, focused on emphasized intuition, personal commitment to felt ideals and existentialism?
What is Esprit
100
How did Jacques Becker learn his directing craft?
What is he worked as Renoir's assistant director on eight films
100
This feature distinguished Clément from other directors in his genre
What is his age
100
The extreme social realism of Malraux's film Espoir foreshadowed this post-war film movement.
What is Neorealism
200
These two movie genres heavily influenced the French New Wave
What is Hollywood cinema & Italian Neorealism
200
What prevented Bazin from beginning his career as a teacher?
What is his failure of his “explication de texte” due to his speech impediment
200
What was the noticeable shift that occurred in Jean Renoir's films after returning to France from America?
What is his emphasis away from socially defined groups to individuals and their families
200
In Les Maudits, Clément took a radical approach to his film by allowing his actors to do this
What is speak their own native languages
200
These are the two currents through which the Tradition of Quality sought to comment on life at the time.
What is Historical allegory (costume film), & psychopathology (film noir).
300
He was the central figure and most influential film critic during the French New Wave
Who is Andre Bazin
300
What are the “two lives” Bazin’s essays have led?
What is objective theory and engaged criticism.
300
What made Jacques Tati stand out from mainstream filmmaking?
What is his style and social orientation
300
Contrary to films of the time, Clément takes attention away from the characters of his film and focuses more on this
What is machinery/locomotives
300
What are the reasons that film form in Italy fared better than in France?
What is due to the absence of strong, regulatory systems, smaller and less profitable independent producers were able to get a share of the chaotic market.
400
Why is Bazin credited as a more influential figure for the evolution of French cinema than Louis Delluc
What is he had a much broader idea of what film criticism should do
400
What was Bazin’s view of literary and theatrical adaptations of films?
What is fundamentally positive with attention to their cultural contributions
400
He is credited as being the most obvious avant-garde artist during the French New Wave
Who is Jean Cocteau
400
The children seen in Clément’s Jeux Interdits were used as a way to symbolically do this
What is create an unromantic portrait of the French peasantry
400
Italian cinema's use of nonprofessional actors and the portrayal of real locations led to what?
What is the sense that they portrayed a reality independent of the narration
500
What was the most important determinant of an 'auteur'?
What is the director's desire and ability to express a certain world view
500
Bazin criticized the cookie-cutter style of American films for this reason
What is their failure to arise organically from their social context.
500
This director preferred to hire untrained players and repeatedly referred to them as models rather than actors (a reference to painting instead of filmmaking)
Who is Robert Bresson
500
This was caused due to Clément’s decision to hire actual train workers for his film La Bataille du Rail
What is the spectators’ attention was focused on overall situations instead of the people’s lived experiences?
500
Critic Bazin gave this reason as to why he felt wary about the future of French film, post-war.
What is during the war, the most realistic films ever were created, through escapist cinema. Post-war, French cinema would have to become even greater by re-discovering authentic expression of French society.
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