FINAL Flashcards
Resentment toward Hollywood was and still is enormous. In the 1990s the US produced only _____% of the world’s feature length films but it accounted for close to ____% of the global box office reciepts.
10%/65%
This extremely stylized British filmmaker at 40 made his follow-up to the creepy debut SHALLOW GRAVE (1995) with a dark comedic look at drug addiction in Scottish youth wiht his 1996 international hit TRAIN SPOTTING. He since has gone on to win the Best Picture Oscar for Slumdog Millionaire in 2009
Danny Boyle
Name the film movement that was created in Denmark in the mid 90’s that wanted to revolutionize the way cinema was being made.
DOGMA95
List two rules that any film that is part of the DOGMA95 Danish movement must follow.
- No Post production editing for audio
2. No Tripod
Name two films that are part of the mid-90s Danish movement.
- Celebration
2. The Idiots
Name two filmmakers that are part of the mid-90’s Danish movement
- Thomas Vinterberg
2. Lars on Trier
Name the Danish cinematographer who was verbally attached by most everyone within the medium for his revolutionary techniques and bold new style. At the time, he declared he would never win an Oscar yet surprisingly he is now considered one of the pioneers of the digital revolution and won an Oscar in 2009.
Anthony Dodd Mantel
This Polish filmmaker (like many other Eastern Europeans) could no longer finance his movies with his own country in the 1990s, following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. His TRICOLOR TRIOLOGY: BLUE (1003), WHITE (1993) and RED (1994), was derived mostly from French casting and financing.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
On the other end of the British spectrum is the Kitchen Sink drama and the most prestigious director is ____________. Working in TV and film for nearly 30 years, his mostly improvised films, achieved an unpretentious look at working class fol. His film SEX AND LIES (1996) won Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival as well as Best Actress.
Michael Leigh
Name this New Zealand filmmaker who used Australian financing and starred two Americans (one winning best Actress) to make THE PIANO (1993), a dazzling, lyrical and poetic exploration of colonialism, feminism and humanism. Her complex perspective on female characters, destroy the ideology that women were only put on earth to dress up pretty.
Jane Campion
“Masterpeice Theater” ws alive and well with its many adaptations of Shakespear in the 1990s. The leading figure of the era was actor/director _________ also directing MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (1993) and the 4+hr unedited version of HAMLET (1996), while also acting in HENRY V (1989) and OTHELLO (1995). ALSO….name his counterpart whose brilliant verbal duels with him are among the best ever recorded, while while she also went on to win Oscars for HOWARD’S END and SENSE and SENSIBILITY (1993).
Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson
This Italian film is the highest grossing foreign language film in the US history amassing $50 milion in NOrth America alone. This comedy about the holocause not only won the grand prize at Cannes, the Pope Jean Paul II verbally announced the film his favorite movie of all time. AND …name the writer/actor and director who won an Oscar for his multi-faceted performance in what many considered an insensitive high concept film.
LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL / Roberto Benign
In THE PIANO (1993), what does the husband, Stewart, catch his mail away bride Ada trying to give to her lover, Baines?
A piano key with an inscription of her love for Baines
AND what does Stewart do physically to punish his wife, Ada after catching her?
He cuts off her finger.
Name the actors of SECRET AND LIES (1996)
Marriane Jean-Baptiste and Brenda Blethyn
Name the actresses of THE PIANO (1993)
Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin
Name the actor of LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL (1997)
Roberto Benign
Name the actress of TRICOLOR: BLUE (1993)
Juliette Binoche
Name the actors of THE PIANO (1003)
Harvey Keital and Sam Neill
Name the actor of TRAIN SPOTTING (1996)
Ewan McGregor
Name the actress of RUN LOLA RUN (1999)
Franka Patante
Name the low budget 1999 film made by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez that initial costs were only $25,000. By utilizing home video, student filmmaking and an inventive marking capaign utilizing a new concept called a website on the Internet, add to that a $25 million dollar advertising campaign and the film accrued over $250 million, one of the highest grossing “v. production cost” film of all time.
THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT
Name the New Zealand actor who earned much acclaim in the early part of the Y2Ks with his rare combination of sex appeal, unusual serious persona as well as a knack for accents and being able to disappear into his roles as he did in MASTER AND COMMANDER (2003), GLADIATOR (2001) and THE INSIDER (1999)
Russell Crowe
Budgets continued to expand. The budget for an American movie in 2004 was ______ million with average marking costs of ______million. The MPAA astonishingly admitted that only 6 out of a thousand films had made their money back.
$64 million / $39 million
Franchises (more than one movie within a series) became extremely popular wtihin the Y2Ks. Name three major franchises along with their respective director(s) discussed in class or in the chapter.
- Bourne - Paul Greengrass
- Spiderman - Sam Rami
- Lord of the Rings - Peter Jackson
Name three of the films that were nominated for the above company during the Y2Ks.
- Chicago
- In the Bedroom
- Chocolat
Name the company that the Weinstein Brothers created whcih acquired 11 Best PIcture nominations in 11 years which all were made for under $50 million.
Miramax
A new marketplace had replaced not only what television had been in the 1950s but what the VCR had been in the 1980s. In the 2003, $9.4 billion was earned by what new technology?
DVD
Where do Jack and Ennis initially meet one another in Brokeback mountain?
In front of Joe Aguirre’s trailer/office in Wyoming
Which one of them marries?
Both do. First Ennis then Jack
What specific response does Ennis get to his letter to Jack at the very end of Brokeback Mountain?
Deceased
How many kids does Ennis have in Brokeback Mountain?
2
“Shapeshifting” directors are a major development in American Indepedent filmmaking. These types of filmmakers are a continuation of artists who pick and choose their films for personal reasons. Name what this kind of filmmaker is. (HINT: It’s a french Theory)
Auteur
Name the first film (to be recognized) as being fully filmed on High Definitional digital systems released in 2002.
Star Wars Episode 2
Name the filmmaker who stylized and distinctive oeuvr helped him rise out of the TV shows like MIAMI VIE and has led him to “adult” movies about compromise and committment. Movies like HEAT (1995), THE INSIDER (1999) and COLLATERAL (2004) mostly explore movies that tend to be about two lonely men who are defined by their professions and their own pride towards those jobs.
Michael Mann
Emerging young filmmakers in the Y2Ks like Wes ANderson have been able to develope their own voice, style and subject right off the bat, making films that resonate with younger audiences especially. Name three the chapter mention.
- Todd Haynes
- Richard Linklater
- Alexander Payne
Name the actors of Brokeback mountain.
Anne Hathaway, Michelle Williams, Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhal
Name the actors of A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE (2005)
Viggo Mortesen and Mario Bello
Name the actor of DONNIE DARKO (2001)
Jake Gyllenhal
Name the actors of FIGHT CLUB (1999)
Brad Pitt and Edward Norton
Name the actress of FIGHT CLUB (1999)
Helena Bonham-Carter
Name the actors of COLLATERAL (2004)
Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx
The “look fo movies” in the Y2Ks has become less realistic and most abstract due to what?
CGI
Animination has continued to expand its base. The films of which studio are comparable to Disney animation of the old 1940s and 50s?
PIXAR
Name what type of movie flils up a major part of art-house theatre programming in the Y2Ks. Everything from SUPER SIZE ME (2004) exposing wwhat eating for one month at McDonalds can do to someone to AN INCOVENIENT TRUTH (2006), which discusses the threat of global warming, opened the door for conversation (and arguments) for making the world a better place.
PERSONAL POLITICAL DOCUMENTARIES
Over his 40-year career, name the director who worked in nearly every genre although he seems to have a fondness towards historical epics: GLADIATOR (2000), KINGDOM OF HEAVEN (2005) and sci fictions: ALIEN (1979, BLADE RUNNER (1982)
RIDLEY SCOTT
Name this modern filmmaker who has never made the same movie twice, bouncing from one genre to the next, taking his time to create characters that emphasize physiological details. Starting with his Chinese family trilogy, followed by the adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility (1995), the 1970s family drama THE ICE STORM (1997), the civil war drama RIDE WITH THE DEVIL (1999), and the sword fighting extravaganza CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (2000). He surprisingly did not win Best Picture for BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (2005) though they did give him a best director Oscar.
Ang Lee
Name the American rating system that took over the Production Code in 1968. This unknown group of people have rated films for the past 45 years, yet no one knows who they are and what their rules are.
MPAA
Among the emerging young directors of the modern era, this film maker tends to revolve around the problems facing families. His fim sare expansive in ambitions as well as theme, with multiple interconnections amongst characgeters as in MAGNOLIA (1999), which has nine story lines. His artistic audacity can be both attractive and off-putting. His film THERE WILL BE BLOOD (2007) left many audiences wondering what they’re suppose to take away form such extreme concepts.
Paul Thomas Anderson
Name this UCLA MFA graduage who primarily specializes in satirical explorations of male character studies. In ELECTION (1999), a frustrated middle-aged schoolteacher goes head to head with an ambitious student. in SIDEWAYS (2004), a frustrated novelist turned wine-snob goes on a road-trip with his best friend who is about to get married. And in ABOUT SCHMIDT (2002), a frustrated retiree goes on a road-trip to visit his estranged daughter before she gets married.
Alexander Payne
Name the actors of Spiderman 2
Kristin Dunst and Toby McGuire
Name the Actors of CHILDREN OF MEN (2006)
Clive Owen, Julianne Moore and Michael Caine
In the year 2027, the wolrd is on the brink of extinction because of what worldwide problem of CHILDREN OF MEN?
women are infertile
Theo’s ex-wife Julian offers him money to do what job in CHILDREN OF MEN?
to get Kee transportation paper
Explain who kee is and why Kee is important in CHILDREN OF MEN
kee is the only person pregnant in the year 2027
Name the Mexican filmmaker whose gifted, profound and inventive cinematic style has given him multiple Oscar nominations and has enabled him to attempt and succeed in directing every type of genre including a Charles Dickinson adaption Great Expectations (1998), the sexually charged Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN (2001), HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN (2004) and the end of the world epic, CHILDREN OF MEN (2006)
Alfonso Cuaron
Name the 3 countries in the Y2K s to garner newfound international acclaim for their cinema
IRAN, ROMANIA, MEXICO
Name the actor who wrote and acted in the highest grossing British film of the Y2Ks, Borat: Culutural LEarnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006), a spinoff from his TV show. The documentary combines irony, satire, tasteless humor, resulting in polarizing responses
SASHA BARON COHEN
Name the surprisingly underrated French director who had previously gave his unique and creative vision to DELICATESSEN (1991), THE CITY OF THE LOST CHILDREN (1995) and ALIEN: RESSURECTION (1997), who was finally recognized commercially for AMELIE (2000) by becoming the highest grossing French Film in the US of all time (33 million) and 174 million worldwide
JEAN-PIERRE JEUNET
Name the controversial Iranian director who is currently sentenced to prision for 6 years and has been banned from making any film in Iran or outside as well as not allowed to talking with any media for 20 years, all for his subversive fims. Hint: He made THE WHITE BALLOON and OFFSIDE.
Jafar Panahi
In 2007, whilch film about an illegal abortion swepth the top prizes at th Cannes film festival, reinforcing that the director Cristian Mungiu and his “marginal”country were becoming one of the world’s leading cinematic treasures. The film utilized lengthy takes from a fixed camera position, understated acting and a documentary-like realism, which is often brutal to watch.
4 MOnths, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
Name the filmmaker whose film TASTE OF CHERRY (1998) won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, following a man looing to pay someone to help him commit suicide. Winning this award she light on a wealth of low-budget neo-realist masterpieces coming from the country of Iran.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI
Name another MExican filmmaker whose gifted, profound and inventive cinematic style has given multliple oscar nominations and has enabled him to work within the US when wanting to make “something more exotic and personal” like DEVIL’S BCKBONE and PAN’S LABYRINTH
DEL TORO
Name the Mexican filmmaker whose ambition and non-linear structure motif often explores multiple storylines that at some point end up interweaving with the even the most remote people on the planet. His conceptual style as in BABEL has the possibility for some audiences of becoming a high-brow muddled mess. Nevertheless, he also delivered solid masterpieces like AMORES PERROS and BIUTIFUL.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Actor of No Country for Old Men
Javier Bardem and Tommy Lee JOnes
Actor of OM SHANTI OM
SHAHRUKIT KHAN
Actors of IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE
Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung
Nme the 1990s Hong Kong director whose style is more influenced by the French New Wave and Classic Hollywood film s, which in turn made him more popular outside of Hong Kong than within. His obsessive attention to detail albiet colors and gestures of characters combined with his non-narrative storytelling helped rank him as one of the world’s greatest directors of the 1990s. In the mood for love surely will make the film cannon in the coming years.
WONG KAR-WAI
Name the Hindi director who directed the biggest BOLLYWOOD Music of all time OM SHANTI OM in 2007. Having worked as musical choreographer on 100 songs in 80 films the previous decade, the filmmaker is now considered a noted Hindi filmmaker, even though it is quite rare in India for a female to direct.
FARAH KHAN
Actress of AMELIE
AUDREY TAUTOU
Actor of SUPER SIZE ME
MORGAN SPURLOCK
Actor of BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE
MICHAEL MOORE
Actor of BORAT
Sasha Baron Cohen
Actors of SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
DEV PATEL and FREIDA PINTO
