Name The Director
These directors frequently collaborates with cinematographer Roger Deakins and made a 2007 contemporary classic western that stars Javier Bardem.
What is Coen Bros?
What editing technique intentionally breaks continuity to disorient the audience by suddenly changing camera position?
What is a jump cut?
This studio became famous in the 2010s for elevated horror films like Hereditary and Midsommar.
What is A24?
English, motherf***er, do you speak it?
What is Pulp Fiction?
This actor went from Disney Channel fame to starring in films like Dune and Wonka.
Who is Timothée Chalamet?
This director is known for symmetrical framing, pastel colors, and deadpan dialogue.
Who is Wes Anderson?
This type of lighting uses minimal fill light and creates harsh shadows, common in noir films.
What is low-key lighting?
This cinematographer shot Dune, Blade Runner 2049, and 1917.
Who is Roger Deakins?
This 2013 film starring Scarlett Johansson explores loneliness through a relationship with an AI operating system.
What is Her?
This 2024 tennis film became heavily meme’d online because of its tension and soundtrack.
What is Challengers?
This director pioneered the “French New Wave” style with jump cuts in Breathless.
Who is Jean-Luc Godard?
What is the name for a shot where the camera physically moves toward or away from the subject?
What is a dolly shot?
This Korean filmmaker became the first director from South Korea to win Best Director at the Oscars.
Who is Bong Joon-ho?
In what film the single word "Rosebud" becomes the central mystery of the movie?
What is Citizen Kane?
This actor became a viral internet phenomenon after dancing to “Murder on the Dancefloor” in the ending of Saltburn.
Who is Barry Keoghan?
This Japanese director has heavily influenced modern action filmmaking. George Lucas based Star Wars off his "Hidden Fortress" film.
Who is Akira Kurosawa?
The “Kuleshov Effect” demonstrated that audiences derive meaning primarily from this filmmaking element.
What is editing/montage?
What is the term for dialogue recorded again in post-production?
What is ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement)?
What is Greta Gerwig's breakthrough debut?
What is Lady Bird?
This actor’s brief role in Dune: Part Two sparked countless memes with the phrase “Lisan al Gaib!”
Who is Javier Bardem?
This director’s films often explore identity, dreams, and surrealism, including Lost Highway.
Who is David Lynch?
What do we call sound added after filming in post-production to recreate footsteps, doors, and everyday noises?
What is Foley?
This movement emerged in post-WWII Italy and focused on ordinary people and real locations.
What is Italian Neorealism?
This 1895 short film by the Lumière brothers famously caused audiences to panic because they thought the train was coming toward them.
What is Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat?
This filmmaker’s fans are known online for defending every frame of his superhero director’s cuts.
Who is Zack Snyder?