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World & Foreign Cinema Flashcards

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What language is 'Amelie' (2001) spoken in?: French
Who played the title role in 'Amelie' (2001)?: Audrey Tautou
Which country produced the film 'Parasite' (2019) that won the Academy Award for Best Picture?: South Korea
Who directed the Italian neorealist classic 'Bicycle Thieves' (1948)?: Vittorio De Sica
What is the significance of Akira Kurosawa's 'Rashomon' (1950) in cinema history?: Introduced the narrative concept of multiple conflicting epeersepeectives of the same event - radically influencing world cinema storytelling
Which French director created the New Wave films 'The 400 Blows' (1959) and 'Jules and Jim' (1962)?: Franois Truffaut
What is Ingmar Bergman's 'The Seventh Seal' (1957) famous for in cinema?: Its iconic chess match between a medieval knight and Death - one of cinema's most famous images
Which country produced 'Cinema Paradiso' (1988) - the Oscar-winning film about a boy's love of movies?: Italy
What is 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' (2000) directed by and from which country?: Ang Lee - a Taiwanese-American director - from Taiwan/China
What is the Iranian cinema movement of the 1990s associated with directors like Abbas Kiarostami known for?: Contemplative, minimalist films exploring everyday Iranian life - particularly childhood - with a distinctive blend of reality and fiction
Which German film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for its portrayal of East German Stasi surveillance?: The Lives of Others
What is Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli most famous for?: Japanese animated feature films with extraordinary artistry including Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, and Princess Mononoke
What country produced 'Y Tu Mam Tambin' (2001) and who directed it?: Mexico - Alfonso Cuarn
What is the significance of Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy in Indian cinema?: A trilogy of Bengali films (1955-1959) considered India's greatest artistic cinematic achievement - bringing Indian cinema to international attention for the first time
Which Spanish-language film directed by Pan's Labyrinth director won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2006?: Pan's Labyrinth
What is Jean-Luc Godard's 'Breathless' (1960) famous for in film history?: Pioneering jump cuts and handheld camera techniques that broke classical continuity editing rules - defining the French New Wave
Which South Korean director made 'Oldboy' (2003) - part of the Vengeance Trilogy?: Park Chan-wook
What is 'City of God' (2002) and from which country does it originate?: A Brazilian crime drama about youth gangs in Rio de Janeiro's favelas - considered one of the greatest films of the 21st century
What is the Argentine film 'The Secret in Their Eyes' (El secreto de sus ojos, 2009) notable for?: Winning the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and its exploration of justice, obsession, and memory in post-dictatorship Argentina
Who directed the Danish Dogme 95 movement and what were its rules?: Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg - no artificial lighting, no post-production sound, handheld cameras only, no genre films, and no directorial credit
What is Hayao Miyazaki's 'Spirited Away' (2001) about?: A young girl who stumbles into the spirit world while her parents are transformed into pigs - she must work in a bathhouse for spirits to rescue them
What film won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2019 alongside a rare jury prize tie?: Parasite
Which Mexican director's film 'Roma' (2018) won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film?: Alfonso Cuarn
What is the significance of Krzysztof Kielowski's 'Three Colours Trilogy' in world cinema?: A French-Polish trilogy (Blue, White, Red - 1993-1994) exploring the French national motto of liberty, equality, fraternity - considered among cinema's greatest works
What is 'Das Boot' (1981) and why is it considered exceptional?: A German submarine war film following a U-boat crew in World War II - its claustrophobic intensity is considered the greatest submarine film ever made
What country produced 'A Separation' (2011) - the first Iranian film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film?: Iran
Who directed 'Woman in the Dunes' (Suna no Onna, 1964) - the Japanese surrealist masterpiece?: Hiroshi Teshigahara
What is the Austrian film 'Funny Games' (1997) and what does it challenge about cinema?: A disturbing film by Michael Haneke where two young men hold a family hostage - deliberately breaking the fourth wall to implicate the audience in their desire for screen violence
Which film directed by Swedish director Ruben stlund won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2017?: The Square
What is the Chinese film 'Farewell My Concubine' (1993) and what made it historically significan't?: A Chinese epic by Chen Kaige about two Peking Oepeera epeerformers across 50 years of Chinese history - the first Chinese film to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes