Test 3 Flashcards
Rise of conglomerates lead to…
Final demise of Hollywood studio system
Early 60’s era was…
romantic idealism
Last 3 years of the decade
social revolution took the industry in a new direction (fun fashion, rock ‘n’ roll)
Ticket prices in the 60’s
still under $1.00
Won Oscars in America: “Lawrence of Arabia”, “Oliver!”, “Romeo and Juliet”, “Dr. Zhivago”, “Tom Jones”, “A Man for All Seasons”
British invasion
Studios believed..
only blockbuster spectacle films would bring back audiences from tv
Most expensive movie ever 20th Century FOX
Cleopatra ($44million)
Highest paid movie star
Elizabeth Taylor ($1million)
Stanley Kramer’s “Judgement at Nuremberg” was an example of
Realism
Why were American movies shot overseas
Nonunion labor was cheaper
Business men with no real commitment to movies except profit
New movie mini-moguls
Among first TV directors to turn to film making, movies won 37 Oscar nominations
Sidney Lumet
Acceptance in part of economic and political philosophy of Carl Marx (communism)
Left-wing
Pursued no single genre, theme, style… tended to be pessimistic… “The Birdman of Alcatraz”
John Frankenheimer
First black performer to reach top 10 as box office attraction… offered roles often denied to black actors
Sidney Poitier
First film to break production code taboos “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf”
Mike Nichols
Staging of the action and the way it is photographed
mise en scene
Vietnam era’s effect on films
radical, anti-establishment
Cost $357,000 to make, grossed $50mil… biker film
Easy Rider
Developed Cinemobile Mark IV in 1967, movie studio on wheels
Fouad Said
The rating system of 1968 caused…
the production code to be scrapped
Only x-rated movie to ever win a Best Picture Oscar
Midnight Cowboy
Director of “Bonnie and Clyde”… violence in movie harshly criticized.. influenced by french new wave
Arthur Penn
bloodiest massacre on film (slow motion violence) “The Wild Bunch”
Sam Peckinpah
Calls into question traditions of a genre
Revisionist
Most important film maker to emerge in the 60’s
Stanley Kubrick
Responsible for the golden age of sci-fi… one of the top grosing films of the decade… visual experience about ideas
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Offers first in flight movies
TWA
Bronzed stars in sidewalk
Hollywood Walk of Fame
Multiplex theatres invented by…
Stanley Durwood 1963
Premiered in the 1970 at World Expo in Japan
IMAX 1967
Championing cause of minorities
Social Realism (1960’s)
Controversial Director from the 60’s
Roman Polanski
Known for Classics
USSR
Known for Animation
Yugoslavia
Known for Widescreen
Hungary
Most Prolific
Poland
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, Spaghetti Western
Sergio Leone
Romeo and Juliet
Zeffirelli (Italian)
Most prestigious British director “Midnight Cowboy”
John Schlesinger
“A Hard Day’s Night and Help!” American director
Richard Lester
Movies dealing with working class life “Angry Young Man”
Kitchen Sink Realism
“Lawrence of Arabia”,”Tom Jones”, “Oliver!”,”My Fair Lady”, “A Man for All Seasons” won Oscars in America
British Cinema
