Films
This film was known to be one of the most original works of 1930s world cinema, attracted attention due to its political prestige and newsworthiness of its writer-director.
What is: Espoir
His work was debated, discussed and generally admired by the young patrons of cine-clubs, art cinemas and the public screenings at the Cinematheque Francaise
Who is: Jean Renoir
This country had an alternative film culture that crystallized around a cinema of reality.
What is Italy?
What event brought Jacques Becker his chance to direct fiction features?
What is: The Occupation
What is an auteur?
What is: A film director who expresses an optimistic image of human potentialities within an utterly corrupt society.
Set aboard a German submarine in the last days of the war, in a melodramatic fashion about disparate individuals in physical and moral crisis in the manner of Hitchcock’s Lifeboat, and was filmed in a decor which exactly reproduced the space of an actual submarine. What was this film?
What is: Les Maudits (The Damned, 1947)
Cinematagraphor that was deemed very professional and knew how to use polished lighting as well as composition to aid Malraux’s film, Espoir
Who is: Louis Page
This country had a critical ideal of a cinema of authors, of creators who “wrote” with images with the “camera-pen.”
What is France?
What was Jacques Becker's two guiding principles in film?
What is: Renoiresque and Social Milieu
Was Jacques Becker a right or left activist? Hint: He was one of the ___ activists most influential in Renoir’s involvement with the Popular Front and the PCF.
Answer: Left Activist
Whereas the masterpieces of Italian Neorealism concern the social and moral experiences of ordinary people, René Clément’s -- ------- -- ---- often directs our attention more toward machinery and milieu (environment) than toward human drama.
What is: La Bataille du rail
A successful cameraman and director of short documentaries in the 1930s. Though like many other nonfiction filmmakers, he aspired to work in fiction features.
Who is: Rene Clement
The central figure of French alternative film culture and the most influential French film critic since Louis Delluc.
Who is André Bazin?
Who was another cinematic traditionalist widely different from Becker's style?
Who is: Jacques Tati
What does the Russian Formalist critical idea of ostraneniya translate to?
What is: “Making Strange”
After an absence of over a decade, Cocteau had returned to the cinema during the Occupation to help his lover, Jean Marais, become a film star. What original commercial screenplay helped successfully kick into gear?
What is: Jean Delannoy’s L’Eternal Retour (The Eternal Return, 1943)
He composed his famous essay “The Birth of a New AvantGarde” in frustrated reaction to the many obstacles to entry into the industry. He also created the formulation, camera-stylo, “camera-pen.”
Who is: Alexandre Astruc’s
André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, and Lo Duca created this magazine in 1951.
What is Les Cahiers du Cinéma?
Becker continually rejected what traditional film-making style?
What is: Pre-quality filmmaking
Bazin’s sense of “style” was closely related to Astruc’s motion of the_____; a means of expressing thought-first and foremost, the thought of an artist.
What is: camera-stylo’s “language”
Artistically, Robert Bresson’s career breaks into two highly unequal parts. The first part being very successful, especially with his two landmark films: Les Anges du péché (Angels of Sin, 1943) and Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne/Ladies of the Park (1944/45) and the second part of his career goes into decline. Why were his highs so high and why were his lows, low?
What is: The films were of the time stylistically and thematically. But after the Liberation, Bresson abandoned the filmmaking practices he had employed so brilliantly.
These two individuals created the magazine, “Les Cahires du Cinema,” in 1951.
Who are: Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Lo Duca
Jean Renoir most likely wished to stop making films in America and return to Europe for work for this reason.
What is his seeing himself as more of an author of films than a director, much like other filmmakers of the time?
What were the two main differences of Becker's two films: Antoine et Antoinette (1946) and Edouard et Caroline (1950)?
What is: The working class characters of the earlier film live in a culture full of solidarity and group process, whereas the second film's bourgeois couple inhabits a sort of emotional void, which finds filmic expression in a frantic, farcical comedy of morals
Who had a "broader--almost messianic--idea" of what film criticism should do?
Who is: Andre Bazin