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French Film Directors
Film Critics and Theorists
Documentaries and Neorealism
Robert Bresson
Jean Renoir
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A post-war film director who was the most honored director at the Cannes Film Festival.
Who is Rene Clement?
100
A magazine founded as a collaboration of three French film critics.
What is Les Cahiers du Cinema?
100
Two of the most respected neorealistic Italian film directors.
Who were Rossellini and De Sica?
100
This was Robert Bresson's first film.
What is Les Agnes du peche (1943)?
100
Renoir returned from the US for his first lengthy European visits in this time period.
What was the early 1950s?
200
A French film director who became an American Citizen after the war.
Who is Jean Renoir?
200
The most influential French film critic of the post-war era.
Who was Andre Bazin?
200
Italian films with generally low budgets and low box office expectations helped to cause this movement.
What was the Italian Neorealist movement?
200
Bresson described this type of filmmaking as a "hopeless morass of self-delusion and bad faith."
What is mainstream commercial filmmaking?
200
Renoir’s La Regle du jeu; La Caporal epingle (1962) has the same basic plot as this early (1937) Renoir film.
What is La Grande Illusion?
300
A director who composed his famous essay, "The Birth of a new Avant-Garde," in frustrated reaction to the many obstacles of the French film industry.
Who is Alexandre Astruc?
300
Alexandre Astruc's camero-stylo "language" resonated profoundly with this French film critic.
Who was Andre Bazin?
300
A 1946 semi-fictionalized chronicle of a French peasant family by the documentary film director Georges Rouquier.
What is Farrebigique?
300
Le Journal d'un cure de champagne (1950) and In condamne a mort s'est echappe (1956).
What were Robert Bresson's first two postwar works?
300
After Renoir "noticeably shifted his emphasis away from socially defined groups, toward individuals and their families," there were two things his films were likely to include.
What were happier endings and positive views of humanity?
400
A French film director who saw himself less as an artist and more as an entertainer.
Who is Jacques Tati?
400
Much of contemporary film theory is profoundly ambivalent toward this French film critic as a theorist.
Who is Andre Bazin?
400
A renowned 1946 French realist film that won two awards at the Cannes film festival.
What is La Bataille du rail?
400
One of Bresson's cinematic styles that relied on plain language, a documentary quality, and did not use professional actors.
What was high Occupation cinema?
400
Renoir did not have full access to the broad responsibilities of filmmaking that he felt were necessary, such as scriptwriting, editing, and scene construction which caused him to be dissatisfied with this system of filmmaking.
What was the US system of filmmaking?
500
The French film director who is celebrated for his camero-stylo or "camera-pen" vision of cinema.
Who is Alexandre Astruc?
500
A cinema theory ideal which was systematically explored in Siegfried Kracauer's "Theory of Film."
What is realist cinema theory?
500
A 1949 Italian-French co-production that combined poetic realism and Italian neorealism.
What is Au-dela des grilles?
500
Bresson's Les Agnges du peche (1943) and Les Dames du Boil de Boulogne (1944/45) were both landmarks of this type of cinema.
What is high Occupation cinema?
500
Renoir’s work is often examined in terms of the opposition of these two forces.
What is nature and theatre?