Deck 13: International Cinema in the 1960s

Question 1

Which of the following is not true of the French nouvelle vague (new wave)movie making movement?

A)rejected commercial French cinema
B)favored light,non-intellectual entertainments
C)began their careers,often,as critics
D)all of the above

Answer 1

B

Question 2

All of the following Italian directors prospered in the 1960s except?

A)Roberto Rossellini
B)Federico Fellini
C)Vittorio De Sica
D)Luchino Visconti
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Answer 2

A

Question 3

The French director who liked to "throw the rough draft [of a movie] at the public" was

A)Louis Malle
B)Jean-Luc Godard
C)Alain Resnais
D)Agnes Varda

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The young directors who made up the French nouvelle vague (New Wave)were a homogenous group in terms of their styles and themes.___

Question 5

The Italian director who believed that "America is really the property of the world" is

A)Michelangelo Antonioni
B)Pier Pablo Pasolini
C)Sergio Leone
D)Franco Zeffirelli

Question 6

Young British filmmakers of the 1960s shared which of the following attitudes?

A)were in films to get rich
B)disliked American movies
C)criticized staid British cinema
D)sought to establish a "tradition of quality"

Question 7

Eastern European filmmakers finally were able to make personal films that

A)embodied boy-loves-tractor based themes.
B)explored the Heroic Resistance idea.
C)both a and b
D)neither a nor b

Question 8

To understand the subtext of Joseph Losey films like The Servant,an audience must

A)read the review.
B)listen to the film music.
C)mine the mise en scene.
D)none of the above

Question 9

Alain Resnais differed from other New Wave directors in that he

A)preferred tightly written scripts.
B)preferred to work with movie stars.
C)preferred to work in America.
D)none of the above
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Question 10

Free Cinema in Britain emphasized

A)democratic values
B)significance of the everyday
C)respect for the individual
D)all of the above

Question 11

New Wave directors believed in the purity of film genres and did not mix genres in their movies.___

Question 12

Acting in Kitchen School realistic movies was characterized by being

A)physical.
B)psychological.
C)sexy.
D)all of the above

Question 13

Francois Truffaut was influenced in his filmmaking by

A)Jean Renoir
B)Alfred Hitchcock
C)neither a nor b
D)both a and b

Question 14

British cinema in the 1960s did not emphasize which of the following?

A)the virtues of characters
B)the sex lives of characters
C)the violence of characters
D)the working class

Question 15

New Wave directors had a deep affection for American movies.___

Question 16

New Wave directors took advantage of which of the following technological developments in the 1960s?

A)fast film stocks
B)zoom lenses
C)light,hand-held cameras
D)all of the above

Question 17

On occasion,British cinema used elements more associated with New Wave directors;one of them found in Richardson's Tom Jones is

A)downbeat tone
B)cinematically self-conscious
C)tightly structured
D)restrained in social attitudes

Question 18

One of the techniques that New Wave directors liked to use was

A)improvised scenes
B)use of movie studios
C)large film crews
D)symphonic scores

Question 19

After Stalin's death in 1953,the cinema in communist-ruled countries became

A)freer.
B)more expensive.
C)less personal.
D)none of the above

Question 20

The most prolific film-producing Eastern European country in the post-Stalin era was

A)Hungary.
B)Poland.
C)Czechoslovakia.
D)Yugoslavia.

Question 21

Matching
a.Hiroshima,Mon Amour
b.Le Voleur (The Thief)
c.The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
d.Shoot the Piano Player
e.A Hard Day's Night
f.Cleo from 5 to 7
g.Ashes and Diamonds
h.L'Avventura
i.Breathless
j.If
Agnes Varda ___

Question 22

Jean-Luc Godard made movies that seemed to "throw the rough draft at the public.
___

Question 23

The new British directors of the 1960s Free Cinema movement revolted consciously against the Italian neorealist movement in their films.___
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Question 24

Matching
a.Hiroshima,Mon Amour
b.Le Voleur (The Thief)
c.The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
d.Shoot the Piano Player
e.A Hard Day's Night
f.Cleo from 5 to 7
g.Ashes and Diamonds
h.L'Avventura
i.Breathless
j.If
Richard Lester ___

Question 25

The 1960s gave rise to the "spaghetti western" popularized by Sergio Leone.___

Question 26

Matching
a.Hiroshima,Mon Amour
b.Le Voleur (The Thief)
c.The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
d.Shoot the Piano Player
e.A Hard Day's Night
f.Cleo from 5 to 7
g.Ashes and Diamonds
h.L'Avventura
i.Breathless
j.If
Lindsay Anderson ___

Question 27

Matching
a.Hiroshima,Mon Amour
b.Le Voleur (The Thief)
c.The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
d.Shoot the Piano Player
e.A Hard Day's Night
f.Cleo from 5 to 7
g.Ashes and Diamonds
h.L'Avventura
i.Breathless
j.If
Michangelo Antonioni ___

Question 28

Unlike most American directors,where did most French New Wave film directors begin their careers?

Question 29

Matching
a.Hiroshima,Mon Amour
b.Le Voleur (The Thief)
c.The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
d.Shoot the Piano Player
e.A Hard Day's Night
f.Cleo from 5 to 7
g.Ashes and Diamonds
h.L'Avventura
i.Breathless
j.If
Andrzej Wajda ___

Question 30

Matching
a.Hiroshima,Mon Amour
b.Le Voleur (The Thief)
c.The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
d.Shoot the Piano Player
e.A Hard Day's Night
f.Cleo from 5 to 7
g.Ashes and Diamonds
h.L'Avventura
i.Breathless
j.If
Jean -Luc Godard ___

Question 31

What characterized the films of the Prague Spring movement in Czechoslovakia?

Question 32

Matching
a.Hiroshima,Mon Amour
b.Le Voleur (The Thief)
c.The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
d.Shoot the Piano Player
e.A Hard Day's Night
f.Cleo from 5 to 7
g.Ashes and Diamonds
h.L'Avventura
i.Breathless
j.If
Tony Richardson ___

Question 33

Matching
a.Hiroshima,Mon Amour
b.Le Voleur (The Thief)
c.The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
d.Shoot the Piano Player
e.A Hard Day's Night
f.Cleo from 5 to 7
g.Ashes and Diamonds
h.L'Avventura
i.Breathless
j.If
Francois Truffaut ___

Question 34

In what way did films by Italian directors like Franco Zeffirelli and Pietro Germi
counter the pessimism found in films by directors like Michelangelo Antonioni?

Question 35

How was the pessimistic view of the world realized in the films of Britain's Angry Young Man movement?

Question 36

Here is the paradox of the Angry Young Man directors in Great Britain in the 1960s: they were hostile to ruling-class institutions and disillusioned with the drab,joyless
Welfare State.___

Question 37

Matching
a.Hiroshima,Mon Amour
b.Le Voleur (The Thief)
c.The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
d.Shoot the Piano Player
e.A Hard Day's Night
f.Cleo from 5 to 7
g.Ashes and Diamonds
h.L'Avventura
i.Breathless
j.If
Louis Malle ___

Question 38

New Wave directors favored tightly structured plots and clear fully realized characterizations to avoid digressions of a personal sort.___

Question 39

Eastern European filmmakers never were able to escape the restrictive guidelines imposed on them by the Soviet Union.___

Question 40

Matching
a.Hiroshima,Mon Amour
b.Le Voleur (The Thief)
c.The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
d.Shoot the Piano Player
e.A Hard Day's Night
f.Cleo from 5 to 7
g.Ashes and Diamonds
h.L'Avventura
i.Breathless
j.If
Alain Resnais ___

Question 41

What filmmaking qualities/techniques made the directors of the French New Wave movement more formalist than realist?

Question 42

What qualities made the "spaghetti westerns" of Sergio Leone of Italy more than B-
movies?

Question 43

What were the effects of the de-Stalinization of films in Eastern Europe?