Impressionism
Arguably the most significant artistic trend in 1920s French film.
What is Cinematic Impressionism?
The name of L’Herbier’s production company.
What is Cinégraphic?
This city was the main hub for the Russian film industry before the 1917 coup d’état by the Bolsheviks, which forced film makers and the entire industry(including cinema equipment, films, actors and directors, etc.) to move to the South.
Where is Moscow, Russia?
Originally, Jean Epstein went to the University of Lyon to study this, later to drop out after a year.
What is medicine/medical school?
Rather than writing original screenplays, Antoine preferred this.
What is adaptation of literary works?
This filmmaker focused on the psychological and impressionist film, more specifically, showing the character's inner lives.
Who is Germaine Dulac?
During WWI, Marcel L’Herbier was assigned to this service, in which he served the rest of the war without having to leave Paris.
What is the French Army’s Cinema Service?
This is the style many Russian Filmmakers adopted (and modified slightly), upon arrival to the French Cinema industry, because it closely modeled their own style.
What is cinematic impressionism?
Epstein was part of the first generation in which film was a part of life. He thought most films were bad, with one exception: films containing or made by this famous English actor, composer, and filmmaker.
Who is Charlie Chaplin?
Antoine’s cinematic style is described by Williams as this, due to his painterly composition and attention to visual detail.
What is pictorial naturalism?
Due to the high watermark of the Russian efforts in France, these two years are considered the peak years of cinematic impressionism as a movement.
What is 1923 and 1924?
L’Herbier created this (1919) film - which had a mixture of fin-de-siécle symbolism and national propaganda - for the French army.
What is Rose-France?
Eugène Lourié was an extra in the film Black Crows, which was an anti-Bloshevik film in which this director instructed his extras playing “Reds” (Bolsheviks) to “Be vicious. Be beastly. Be realistic.”
Who is Alexander Volkov?
This film, known as a docudrama, was the film that launched Epstein’s career as a film director.
What is Pasteur (1922)?
To enhance realism, Antoine preferred this type of shooting.
What is location shooting?
David Bordwell created a model of these five stylistic techniques typically employed in cinematic impressionism.
What is 1) close-ups; 2) camera movements; 3) optical devices; 4) marked displacement within the visual field; 5) nonlinear editing patterns?
This producer offered L’Herbier a two film contract that eventually became six; two of which are L’Homme du Large (1920) and El Dorado (1921).
Who is Léon Gaumont?
This film depicts in one scene a nightmare, which can only be described as a transgression nightmare, and was inspired by German cinematic impressionism and codirected by Ivan Mosjoukine and Alexander Volkov.
What is Le Brasier Ardent (The Fiery Furnace, 1923)?
The film La Belle Nivernaise (1924) was shot on the river Seine, and featured beautiful landscapes which helped the characters appear extremely clear, was based on a novel by this author.
Who is Alphonse Daudet?
Antoine emphasized restraint and psychological motivation in this.
What is acting?
In terms of Bordwell’s model, this film is described as one of the most impressionist films ever made.
What is El Dorado (1921)?
L’Herbier’s final film of the period, L’Argent Money (1929), was influenced by this person’s experiments with camera mobility in Napoléon.
Who is Abel Gance?
This producer rented the former Pathé Frères studio, his biggest asset being Mosjoukine, a huge star of French Cinema in the 1920s.
Who is Joseph Ermoliev? (Yermoliev was his name when he was in Russia)
Jean Epstein famously denounced this technique in his 1924 lecture, in which he said “This is no longer interesting, it’s a bit ridiculous”, and called it “an abuse”.
What is rapid rhythmic editing?
Antoine’s commitment to realism in film was deeply influenced by his revolutionary work in this medium.
What is naturalist theater?