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
