Show:
The Role of Russians
Andre Antoine
All About Impressionism
Filmmakers & Co.
Jean Epstein
100
Which French film company representative helped the Russian film industry come into existence?
What is Lumieres
100
What film trend/genre was Antoine prominent in?
What is pictorialist naturalism
100
Who was the first film critic to use the term “impressionist” to describe a certain tendency of some filmmakers in the 1920s?
Who is Germaine Dulac
100
Who was the most consistently “impressionistic” of French filmmakers?
Who is Marcel L'Herbier
100
In his early adolescence Epstein had been fascinated by these French comics
Who are Prince and Max Linder
200
When the new Russian government was implemented, cinema equipment, film stock, negative and positive prints of films were removed from Moscow and relocated to...
What is Odessa and Yalta
200
What is the name of Antoine's subscription-only theater?
What is Theatre-Libre
200
Anti-realist filmmakers did not seek to reproduce physical reality. What experience did they seek to capture in their films?
What is physical and mental states
200
What was the (financial) appeal of the pictorialist naturalism film business?
They did not need to own or use studio facilities
200
Which film did Epstein direct that launched his cinema career?
What is Pasteur (1922)
300
What Russian became the face of the cinematic impressionist movement in 1923-1924?
Who is Mosjoukine
300
What was unique about Antoine's sets that "scandalized" the theater world?
What is the use of real objects, such as books and real beef
300
While films can be completely non-narrative, with what do most experimental films attempt to balance storytelling sequences (often with limited success)?
What are psychological, imagistic sequences
300
What author had written of the "cult of the self," a popular theme explored by the Impressionists?
Maurice Barres
300
In this film, the narrative is conveyed in smooth Hollywood-style invisible editing
What is L'Affiche (The Poster, 1924)
400
Russians emulated the French in... (In terms of film)
What is editing, optical tricks, and possible narrative structure
400
What slogan was used to describe Antoine's Naturalist theater productions, as well as one of Feuillade's works?
What is "slices of life"
400
Besides impressions of a situation belonging to characters, what other impressions do Impressionist films communicate?
What are those of the filmmaker or narrator
400
Who was the last of the great early cinema pictorialists?
Who is Jean Gremillon
400
What convinced Epstein that the cinema was an essential expression of contemporary culture?
What is the first notable American feature films distributed in France
500
What are the 3 kinds of sequences usually in Russian films?
What are straight narrative scenes, theatrical performances, and bravura sequences of "Impressionist" fireworks.
500
What French author/playwright heavily influenced Antoine and other followers of the Naturalist movement?
Who is Emile Zola
500
What are three of the five stylistic devices used by Impressionist filmmakers?
What are (1) Close-ups, (2) camera movement, (3) optical or camera effects, (4) displacement within visual field (off-screen shadows) or in story (flashbacks, fantasy), (5) nonlinear editing patterns
500
Paradoxically, Marcel L’Herbier did not impose a style on each of his films. What factor determined the style employed?
What is the subject matter
500
Epstein experimented with the editing in this scene, which quickly became an accepted "classic" of cinematic Impressionism
What is the merry-go-round scene in Coeur fidele