FMI Final
The Indian director Satyajit Ray's masterpiece trilogy of 3 films made in the 1950s is known as the "_____ trilogy."
Apu
_________, made in 1967 by director Arthur Penn, is considered the first American film to display a direct influence of the French New Wave.
Bonnie and Clyde
Agnes Varda
Director of Cleo from 5 to 7
Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999)
Director of: - The Shining (1980) - 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Killer's Kiss (1955)
Danish director Lars von Trier was part of the _________ 95 film movement.
Dogme
The wonderful character actor __________ plays Gloria's violent boss in Killer's Kiss.
Frank Silvera
The 1964 Academy Awards were especially noteworthy because __________ won an Oscar for Lilies of the Field, the first Black man to win such an award.
Sidney Pontier
New Hollywood
(1960-1980) A hybridization of foreign art cinema and classical Hollywood ideals. with Film-school-educated directors which drew from established genres, special effects and large advertising budgets to create blockbusters
Happy Days (1974-1984)
- Created by Garry Marshall - A popular TV show that portrayed the pop culture of the 50's and 60's
The Jeffersons (1975-1985)
- Created by Norman Lear, Don Nicholl, Michael Ross, and Bernard West
Tiempo de Morir / Time to Die (1966)
- Directed by Arturo Ripstein (this was his first feature) - Mexican Western film
House (1977)
- Directed by Obayashi Nobuhijo - Japanese experimental horror film inspired by Jaws (1975)
Buck and the Preacher (1972)
- Directed by Sidney Poitier (also acted in the film as Buck) - Harry Belafonte (the Preacher)
Tentpole Films
- Expensive films expected to earn a great deal of money and help support other studio activities -Often pre-sold properties, major stars, "spectacular," and can be merchandized/marketable
The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-1977)
- created by James Brooks and Allan Burns - notable for its emphasis on issues pertaining to women's liberation
The Wedding Banquet (1993)
- directed by Ang Lee - nominated for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar - indie cinema and queer cinema, "new queer cinema"
Watchmen (2019)
- directed by Damon Lindelof
Earth (1998)
- directed by Deepa Mehta (Into-Canadian) - part of her "elements trilogy" - deals with an interfaith romantic relationship, along with friendships that are threatened during India's partition in 1947
Wadja (2012)
- directed by Haifaa al-Mansour, from Saudi Arabia - about a girl wanting a bike, but religious views get in the way
Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017)
- directed by Issa López - Mexican horror film based on cartels
Jane the Virgin (2014-2019)
- directed by Jennie Snyder Urman - adaptation of a 2002 Venezuelan telenovela: Juana la Virgen - starring Gina Rodriguez
Predator (1987)
- directed by John McTiernan - starring Arnold Schwarzenegger - 10th highest grossing film of 1987
Antonia's Line (1995)
- directed by Marleen Gorris - won Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1996
Carmen Jones (1954)
- directed by Otto Preminger - nominated for 2 Oscars - adaptation of Georges Bizet's 1875 opera Carmen
Something New (2006)
- directed by Sanaa Hamri - features Sanaa Lathan as Kenya, and Simon Baker as Brian
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
- directed by Stanley Kramer (1967) - addresses interracial marriage
Killer's Kiss (1955)
- directed by Stanley Kubrick - financed by director's friends and family - film noir
Jaws (1975)
- directed by Steven Spielberg - created a new genre: "blockbuster"
Two Black actors won top honors at the ______ Oscars: Halle Berry and Denzel Washington.
2002
The French New Wave
A film movement (1950s and 1960s) in France in opposition to the conventional studio system. Films often low budget with young actors, shot on location, used unconventional sound and editing patterns, and addressed the struggle for personal expression.
Manifest Destiny
A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Who directed Cleo from 5 to 7
Agnes Varda
Japanese director __________, himself influence by Hollywood cinema, had a huge influence on the rest of the world's cinema with films like Rashômon, Seven Samurai and Throne of Blood.
Akira Kurosawa
We will get to the French New Wave next week, but there were some interesting films made in France in the 1950s, too, including Night and Fog, from director ___________, which takes a hard-hitting look at the Holocaust.
Alain Resnais
Mexican director _________, after making Y Tu Mamá También, made one of the films in the Harry Potter series and then lauched into space with Gravity.
Alfonso Cuaron
________ directed Time to Die, a Mexican Western we watched in class last week.
Arturo Ripstein
__________, author of 1963's best-seller The Feminine Mystique, helped to found the National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1966. It was the first national organization to lobby for women's rights since the demise of the suf- frage movement in the 1920s. Still the largest women's political organization in the country, NOW led the (failed) drive to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment in the seventies and supported the numerous lawsuits that helped to turn the green light of federal legislation into actual progress in legal and economic gains for women.
Betty Friedan
Congress signed the Public _______ Act of 1967 in November of that year, which soon begat PBS along with a host of new or revitalized public television stations across the land.
Broadcasting
In the film ____________, director Sidney Poitier tells the story of how African American settlers of the American West overcame the challenges thrown up by their racist white pursuers.
Buck and the Preacher
Author Nelson George is not such a fan of the popular 1967 film Guess Who's ________ to Dinner, calling it a film about liberal guilt, featuring another "Black Superman" role for its star.
Coming
Earth is a film by director _________ that placesits narrative during the 1947 partition of India.
Deepa Mehta
Instead of _________ winning an Oscar for his turn in the title role of Malcolm X, the top prize that year went to Al Pacino.
Denzel Washington
There were other great directors in Italy, beyond Vittorio De Sica. ____________, who directed La Strada, Il Bidone, and La Dolce vita, was one of the biggest.
Fererico Fellini
In the film __________, which we watched last week, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers and others face off against a violent alien.
Predator
Stanley Kramer directed ________, a film starring Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn, and Spencer Tracy, which we watched in class last week.
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
In the 1970s television show ________, future director Ron Howard plays young Richie Cunningham, an uptight young man who is friends with "The Fonz."
Happy Days
In the film _______, which we watched last week, director Nobuhiko Obayashi tells the story of a group of teenage girls who go to the home of one of their aunts, only to meet a tragic end.
House
According to author Imani M. Davis, the late, great writer and thinker ________ was critical of Carmen Jones, saying "it could easily have been dreamed up by someone determined to prove that Negroes are as 'clean' and as 'modern' as white people and, I suppose, in one way or another, that is exactly how they were dreamed up."
James Baldwin
Peter Jackson, of The Lord of the Rings fame, is not the only New Zealand-born director out there. __________ also hails from there, and has seen success with films such as An Angel at My Table, The Piano, Portrait of a Lady and, last year, The Power of the Dog.
Jane Campion
Chuck Stephens writes that "what Toho Studios was hoping for when it hired Obayashi was a homegrown _______: a locally produced summer movie roller coaster sufficiently thrill-chocked to at least partially deflect the ongoing onslaught of Tokyo-box-office-topping New Hollywood hits from Messrs. Spielberg and Lucas—something fast and loud, with tons of fun packed between screams."
Jaws
Despite the success of films like Do the Right Thing, Haygood writes that the 1990s were not good for Black filmmakers. Nevertheless, someone like _________ found success with his 1991 Boyz n the Hood.
John Singleton
Starting in the late 1960s all the way up to the present day, filmmaker _________ has been bringing bad-taste images of Baltimore to the rest of the world, through such films as Pink Flamingos and Polyester.
John Waters
Hong Kong action director ________ made his mark with films like Bullet in the Head and Hard Boiled before coming to Hollywood to make Broken Arrowand Face/Off.
John Woo
The first African American woman to have a full-length general theatrical release in the US for her film was _________, with Daughters of the Dust.
Julie Dash
Before becoming the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Director (with the 2008 The Hurt Locker), _______ was known as an excellent action director for such films as Point Break, Strange Days and K-19: The Widowmaker.
Kathryn Bigelow
Actor ___________ wore a 200-pound suit to play the monster in the Schwarzenegger film we watched last week in class.
Kevin Peter Hall
Chuck Stephens writes that "Disney had his seven dwarves, ________ his seven samurai. For Obayashi (with the help of his eleven-year-old daughter, Chigumi, who provided many of the story ideas), it was seven teenage damsels in distress—Carrie raised to the seventh power, Suspiria spiraling ever upward into some psychedelic seventh heaven."
Kurosawa
British director David Lean—part of the British New Wave—made the epic _________ in 1962, which launched the film career of actor Peter O'Toole.
Lawrence of Arabia
Author Bilal Quereshi writes, about Earth, that: "Hindus ravage Muslims, Muslims kill Hindus, a Hindu woman falls in love with a Muslim, and Muslims hide Sikhs from murderous mobs in Lahore's back alleys. The violence and the acts of kindness transcend religious categories as they did in reality and that approach gives the film's screenplay an important balance. [The director] says she knew she had succeeded when she was charged with bias from all sides: 'There were a lot of Hindus who said to me, 'Why have you made a film that's so pro-Muslim?' There were Muslim friends who said it was too pro-Hindu. I think it's actually extremely fair because it's the point of view of _____.'"
Lenny
Spanish director __________, who had left Europe after the fascists took over Spain, relocated to Mexico in the late 1940s, where he made his class Los Olvidados in 1950.
Luis Buñuel
Actress _____________ starred, in the 1970s, in a sitcom that bore her name and which featured a woman striking out on her own in Minneapolis, where she
Mary Tyler Moore
Indian cinema is more than "Bollywood" musicals, as we saw. ________ is another Indian director who has made films in her native country as well as abroad, including Mississippi Masala, starring Denzel Washington, and Monsoon Wedding.
Mira Nair
Harry Belafonte
One of the great singing stars of the 20th century. Also leading civil-rights activists of that time
Which one of the following is not one of the three Egyptian directors mentioned in the reading?
Ousmane Sembene
Although the distribution of African-made films has been relatively sparse outside of the African continent, that doesn't mean that there is not a lot going on there, cinematically speaking. Dixon and Foster highlight the work of "highly experimental feminist director _____________," whom they write "has been luckier than many in this regard. Born in Dakar, Senegal, of Serer origin, [she] has strong links to her cultural heritage, which she records in Fad'jal (Grand-père raconte, 1979), named after the village where [her] parents were born.
Safi Faye
Martin _______ is an important American director who began his career in the 1970s with such films as Mean Streets and Taxi Driver.
Scorsese
"__________, arguably the most important African American filmmaker the medium has produced, began his career at Morehouse College" and has since gone on to make such films as the 1989 Do the Right Thing and the 2018 BlacKkKlansman.
Spike Lee
Author Wil Haygood examines, among other things, the rise of director ________, explaining about where he grew up and how he came to form his own production company, 40 Acres and a Mule, and made his NYU Master's Thesis.
Spike Lee
In her essay, bell hooks discusses the challenges for Black artists who might wish to engage in a cinema that is not conventional or mainstream. She writes: "To a grave extent the formulation of a critical black cinema has been undermined by the cultural obsession with mainstream success that overdetermines the direction of artistic work. _____________'s success in conventional cinema means that lots of young black filmmakers see no reason to engage independent filmmaking at all."
Spike Lee
___________, later to make such acclaimed masterpieces as 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Shining, directed Killer's Kiss, the film we watched last week in class.
Stanley Kubrick
Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962)
The French New Wave, wrote and directed by Agnes Varda, pop star waits 2 hours for biopsy results in paris
We watched three 1970s sitcoms in class last week. Which one told the story of an upwardly mobile African American family moving into a "deluxe apartment in the sky"?
The Jeffersons
By 1968, which one of the following had collapsed?
The Production Code
The following is the name of the famous 1957 film by Swedish director Ingmar Bergman in which a medieval knight plays chess with Death:
The Seventh Seal
Sidney Poitier
The first African American actor to win the Best Actor Award for Lilies of the Field (1963)
Ridley Scott's _______, starring Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis, is considered a controversial feminist road movie.
Thelma & Louise
__________ is a German director who has made both fiction and documentary films, including Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo, and Grizzly Man.
Wener Herzog
western film
western film , a type of films which is usually played in the desert in the US with cowboys
blockbuster
a film that is a big commercial success. Originally came about during WII from the idea of bomb clusters "busting" an entire block
B movies
are cheaply and quickly made genre films (e.g. comic book/superhero films)
Which one of the following was not one of the three British women directors of the 1950s mentioned in the reading? a) Wendy Toye b) Muriel Box c) Ida Lupino d) Jill Craigie
c) Ida Lupino
Celluloid film is being increasingly replaced by __________ imagery, with directors like David Fincher, Robert Rodriguez, and James Cameron seeing film as a thing of the past.
digital
Author bell hooks writes about the gaze of the Black ________ spectator.
female
Miramax
fledgling independent distribution company owned by the Weinstein brothers; 1990s highly regarded indie label and became "specialty unit" for Disney; was successful with pick up films that the big studios didn't want
New Hollywood: 1970s films were known for...
gritty realism, sex and violence that had heretofore not been allowed on screen
The main thrust of bell hooks' essay for this week concerns the difficulty maintaining one's mission as a Black artist without giving into the demands of the marketplace. She writes: "... while it is crucial for black filmmakers to consider issues of accountability and the politics of representation, it is equally crucial that artists sustain the ____________ of their vision."
integrity
Author Rae Torres calls the John McTiernan film we watched in class last week a "blend of sci-fi, action, and horror, plus a heaping dose of _______."
muscle
Starting in the 1960s, Hollywood studios began to be taken over by...
outside conglomerates
hollywood continuity editing
set of rules for editing (eyeliner matches, matches on action, obeying 180 degree law) that attempts to hide the cuts in classical narrative filmmaking, spoon feed information to the audience, and present a unified sense if the diegetic world as real.
Film coverage
shooting an action from multiple angles
Tadpole Films
smaller movies (gritty dramas, gentle comedies), that may not come with any sort of "pre-awareness"
The financial interest and __________ rules were passed in 1971. They were designed to limit the number of prime-time programs that a network could own. Now, production companies could stay independent of network ownership and could also retain full ownership of their programs.
syndication
The rise of cable took place in...
the 1980s
Blaxploitation
the exploitation of black people, especially with regard to stereotyped roles in movies.
In her essay on the French New Wave film we watched in class last week, author Molly Haskell writes: "In showing us a woman whose sense of self is formed not by inner desires and drives but by her need for approval in the eyes of others, [the director] is confronting the ________ of a beautiful woman as well as her beauty."
vanity
Dorothy Dandridge (1922-1965)
was an actress. She was the first African American to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
