Classic Movies

Question 1

Classic Ingmar Bergman Black and White, 1947

Answer 1

Seventh Seal- Antonius Block, and Squire Jons

Question 2

Japan, black and white 1950 - theme of human witness is unreliable

Answer 2

Rashomon

Question 3

Prague, 1968 -name the characters too

Answer 3

Unbearable Lightness of Being - Tomas, Tereza, Sabina, Franz, Karenin

Question 4

Meeting over dinner, long conversation 1981

Answer 4

My Dinner with Andre

Question 5

Martin Scorsese

Answer 5

Born 1942-
Meticulous plots, realism
No good or bad characters - all are in the middle

Key Movies
Wolf of Wall Street
Goodfellas
Raging Bull
Departed
Taxi Driver
Gangs of New York
New York Stories

Question 6

Mank

Answer 6

David Fincher
About the guy who wrote Citizen Kane

Question 7

David Fincher

Answer 7

Born 1962, NYC
Known for dark themes, camera angle during action
Key Movies
Fight Club
Mank
Gone Girl
Zodiac
Seven
Social Network
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Question 8

Stanley Kubrick

Answer 8

1928-1999
The Shining
Clockwork Orange
2001
Full Metal Jacket
Dr. Strangelove
Eyes Wide Shut

Question 9

Francis Ford Coppola

Answer 9

1939-
Godfather
Apocalypse Now
Lost in Translation
The Conversation
The Outsiders

Question 10

Kathryn Bigelow

Answer 10

1951-
Hurt Locker
Detroit
Zero Dark Thirty
Point Break

Question 11

Akira Kurosawa

Answer 11

1910-1999
Seven Samurai
Rashomon

Question 12

David Lynch

Answer 12

1946-
Known for surreal - how you feel when your life goes &^%$
Blue Velvet
Twin Peaks
Mulholland Drive
Dune (1982)

Question 13

Salvador Dali film- short, gross

Answer 13

Un Chien Andalou
1928
“Handmade” Low Budget
Was never intended to make sense
Was meant to shock the audience

Question 14

Early Martin Scorsese Film, about vigilantism

Answer 14

“Taxi Driver”
Set the tone for the gritty movies that Scorsese would produce for the rest of his life
Robert De Niro
Jodie Foster

Question 15

Fincher vs Christopher Nolan

Answer 15

Fincher - low key lighting, heavy shadows - FIght Club, Seven, Gone Girl, Mank, Benjamin Button
Christopher Nolan - Unconventional structures - weird plotlines, (Tenet, Inception, Memento, Dark Knight)

Question 16

Woody Allen

Answer 16

1935
Tons of movies both as actor and director
Hannah and her sisters
Manhattan
Annie Hall
Directing
Blue Jasmine
Midnight in Paris

Question 17

What to say when asked for a password

Answer 17

Fidelio

Question 18

Analyze Mulholland Drive

Answer 18

2/3 of movie is Diane’s dream
She dreams of innocence/ renewal
She actually hates Camilla

Question 19

Blond from Mulholland Drive

Answer 19

Naomi Watts

Question 20

Christopher Nolan

Answer 20

The Prestige
Memento
Tenet
Inception
Interstellar
Dunkirk
The Dark Knight Rises
Following

Question 21

Enemy Premise

Answer 21

Denis Villeneuve - set in Toronto. Mulholland Drive meets Fight Club. One actor -semi successful, fantasizes about being a university professor. Not a great movie, but interesting.

Question 22

Shutter Island Explained

Answer 22

Scorsese - DiCaprio- Guy who believes he’s a US Marshall investigating a disappearance in a criminally insane island penitentiary, finds out that he’s a delusional convict himself

Question 23

Jacob’s Ladder Premise

Answer 23

Jacob believes himself to be a successful military surgeon post Gulf war, where he fought and originally thought he lost his brother. Although we’re led to believe that his brother is a burnt out vet, we learn at the end that he’s the burnt out vet and he’s living his brother’s life.

Question 24

Inception Premise

Answer 24

Christopher Nolan - An agent is able to learn people’s secrets by entering their dreams. Sometimes he brings other agents with him. They can go into a dream within a dream etc. The crux of the movie is him going actually planting an idea (inception) vs learning ideas.
He goes 4 layers deep to do this, but it works. In the end we think he gets out but he stays in a dream with his wife. Fourth layer is Limbo. If you include reality there are five levels

Question 25

Predestination Movie Premise

Answer 25

Ethan Hawke's character is a time travelling agent much like Timecop. He actually turns out to be all the main characters in the movie since he was originally a baby who grew into a woman who conceives a baby with herself, she becomes an agent herself, gets disfigured to the point that she has reconstructive surgery and turns into Ethan Hawke.

Question 26

Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Premise

Answer 26

Jim Carrey's character has the option of wiping out the memory of a relationship that ended and caused him pain, but decides not to. The point is that despite, or perhaps because of imperfections in relationships, we need to hold onto them.

Question 27

Moon Premise

Answer 27

Sam is a lone worker on a lunar mining station. He realizes that he's been lied to by his employer, as he's being replaced periodically by clones and time on earth has moved on 15 years.

Question 28

Arrival Explained

Answer 28

Everything’s circular- time, language, the plot, Louise’s daughter’s name Hannah.

Question 29

Kuleshov Effect

Answer 29

The meaning of image A is determined by its juxtaposition to image B, C, or D.

Question 30

David Lean movies

Answer 30

Lawrence of Arabia Dr Zhivago Bridge on the river Kwai Great Expectations Brief Encounter

Question 31

Who directed Lawrence of Arabia?

Answer 31

David Lean

Question 32

Movie about Van Gogh, actor and director

Answer 32

At Eyernity’s Gate Willem Dafoe Julian Schnabel

Question 33

Who directed Diving bell and the butterfly?

Answer 33

Julian Schnabel

Question 34

Observations about Diving Bell and Butterfly

Answer 34

Character who never knew failure is faced witg it. Despite only blinking, he had more social connections than people who are typical. Reminded me of the Sessions.

Question 35

Three Woody Allen Films I've seen

Answer 35

Manhattan Annie Hall Husbands and Wives

Question 36

What I liked about Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen)

Answer 36

People in middle age are either single and wishing for stability, or in a marriage and dying to get out of suburbia.

Question 37

Metaphor in Chinatown

Answer 37

Water and the Truth

Question 38

Who directed Chinatown?

Answer 38

Román Polanski

Question 39

Why is Roman Polanski controversial?

Answer 39

Wife (Sharon Tate) murdered by Manson followers Accused of having sex with a 13 year old at Jack Nicholson’s house

Question 40

Hallmarks of film noir

Answer 40

Fallen/falling middle class hero Femme fatale Has to be a crime Entrapment Often Los Angeles American Dream failed Nihilistic/ unhappy ending

Question 41

Modern film noir movies

Answer 41

Blade Runner Mimento Taxi Driver Gone girl

Question 42

Metrópolis Year and director

Answer 42

1927 Fritz Lang

Question 43

Star of 12 Angry Men

Answer 43

Henry Fonda

Question 44

What is special about Nocturnal Animals?

Answer 44

3 storylines Metaphor is revenge Amy Adams

Question 45

Amy Adams Movies

Answer 45

Nocturnal Animals Arrival American Hustle Man of Steel

Question 46

Star of To Kill A Mockingbird

Answer 46

Gregory Peck