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Fade Into Feyder
Es-Pagnol
Radical Ophuls & Co.
All About Duvivier
The Director’s Chair
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Feyder was forced to take a break from directing to help fight in this war?
What is the Great War
100
This man is credited by Pagnol to be his gateway into the film industry
Who is Robert T. Kane
100
Jewish/German names were routinely altered to seem more ___?
What is to seem more French in film credits
100
How did Duvivier get into acting?
What is he reconnected with a former classmate who was an actor at the Odeon theatre
100
This director devised a proto-sterophonic sound system two decades ahead of its time for his film "Napoleon" (1935)
Who is Abel Gance
200
He was a fellow ex-Belgian bourgeois and friend of Feyder who helped co-produce many of Feyder's earliest talkies in France?
Who is Charles Spaak
200
This was the reason for Pagnol's isolation in the film community
What were his odd social background and his attitude
200
The major criticisms of Guitry's film work?
What is it was all form and no substance
200
Why did Duvivier's first attempt at independent film production enterprise fail?
What is the negative of his second film was destroyed in a fire
200
Who is the sister of Jean Epstein and helped direct the film "La Maternelle" with Jean BenoitLevy
Who is Marie Epstein
300
Feyder worked briefly for this movie company in Hollywood, California?
What is MGM
300
Pagnol's soundtracks featured these two integral aspects
What are direct/synchronous recordings of dialogue and the rhythmic musicality of his characters' speech
300
The name of the community of people that Ophul was akin to, who sought to find new solutions to old problems and find new problems to make his public confront
What is enfants terribles
300
Why was the film, "Maria Chapdelaine" (1934) considered unusual compared to the other works of the time?
What is it drew on cinematic impressionist techniques that were more prevalent in the 1920s
300
After his movie “L'Or des mers”, Jean Epstein's work oscillated between these two film subjects
What is non-descript fiction features and educational shorts
400
Who are the moral centers in most of Feyder's films?
Who are women, children and young adults
400
Pagnol included these aspects in his characters and excluded this cinematic practice in his films
What are regional accents and studio fabricated exteriors
400
The most prominent feature of Ophuls most conventional works of the decade
What is his breathtaking mobile camerawork
400
What is one of the expressive techniques used by Duvivier in "David Golder" (1931)?
What is Soviet-style montages, expressionist lighting, camera movement, American-style dialogue, and remarkable landscapes
400
Why did Jean Gremillon have few choices and little creative control over many of his first projects?
What is the unmitigated commercial disaster of his first film, "La Petite Lise"
500
Throughout the silent era Feyder's work was characterized by careful craftsmanship, intelligent visual experiences, and a reluctance to commit to a style or set of issues. With the coming of talkies, Feyder began to make movies that were...
What is stylistically consistent and shared a common atmosphere and world view
500
Marcel Pagnol was very different from other major personalities in the film industry in this way
What is he was not considered to be a true bourgeois and opposed the social integration into modern Parisian society
500
The reason as to why some of Ophul's French films are viewed rarely in today's world
What is they were "lost forever", victims of his and his film's "undesirable" origins during the German Occupation
500
After making "The Great Waltz" (1938) in Hollywood, Duvivier experienced an ironic twist of fate. What was it?
What is Duvivier found himself working back in the American studio system after rejecting everything it stood for only three years prior
500
What was the reason Gremillon's "Gueule d'amour" gained attention from both critics and audiences?
What is it managed to transcend and in some ways improve upon its earlier model