Politics in Cinema
Emerged as a dominant force in what one might call the aesthetics of social opposition
What is the Communist party?
A work of almost impeccable fascist credentials by Brasillach and Bardeche
What is Histoire du Cinema?
first movie worked on by Almereyda
What is A Propos de Nice/ On the Subject of Nice?
This extremely popular actor worked with Carne on two consecutive movies as the leading man in both.
Jean Gabin
Jean Renoir's 1937 anti-war move "La Grande Illusion" was believed to have taken a stand against this very relevant and hostile stigma associated with a certain group of people during this period.
Anti-Semitism
Most French fascists and fascist sympathizers favorite sound film
What is Triumph des Willens / Triumph of the Will?
Admirer of the A Propos de Nice and Future star Of Renoir's Le Crime de Monsieur Lange
Who is Rene Lefevre?
This enormously popular film is said to have sparked the poetic realism movement in french filmmaking even though the term was technically first applied to cinema five years prior.
Marcel Carne's "Le Quai des brumes" ("Port of Shadows") (1938)
This 1933 film was almost immediately banned by the government, this is speculated to have been due to the film's use of children revolting against their school as a metaphor for revolution.
Jean Vigo's "Zero de Conduite"
difference between the left and the right in the cinema landscape during the 1930s
did not attempt to exploit the cinema for their own political gain prominently to fragmentation
French for Medium Length films (A left wing director hired Vigo to produce these)
What are Moyens Metrages?
This film by Carne was originally a vehicle for the famous actress Anabella, but unexpectedly catapulted the career of another actress who also stars in the movie "Le Jour Se Leve" ("Daybreak") (1939).
(Looking for name of Film and the Actress)
"Hotel Du Nord" (Hotel of the North) (1938) and Arletty
Pseudonym for Jean Vigo, son of the notorious left-wing Eugene Bonaventure de Vigo
Who is Almereyda?
A scandalous film that Jean Renoir and others renamed, because it was fascist
What is Quai des Brumes?
(Hint: it was renamed Cul des brèmes)
Renoir first touched upon a pressing social issue of the decade in the movie
What is Toni?
Carne was involved in this specific role of the making of Jaques Feyder's 1929 film "Les Nouveaux Messieurs" (The New Gentleman).
Second assistant director
This 1938 film was initially financed primarily by members of Communist-dominated unions through popular subscription by paying two francs in advance for their future spectatorship.
Jean Renoir's "La Marseillaise" (1938)
denounced supposedly left and jewish influenced film making with writing and radio commentary
This political party organization founded as an independent entity in 1920 emphasized the theatre for two reasons: it was a way of seeking working class recruits, and it involved collective effort and group discipline.
The Parti Communiste Francais (P.C.F)
These two French philosophers recalled Carne's 1938 film "Le Quai des Brumes" ("Port of Shadows") as one of the only French films they admired, praising its "fog of despair enveloping the entire film".
Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre