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World & Foreign Cinema Quiz

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What is the significance of Pixar and Disney in world animation cinema?
- A. They only make live-action films
- B. They produce only children's entertainment
- C. They are the only animation companies
- D. American studios that revolutionised animation - but the international animation tradition from Studio Ghibli (Japan), Aardman (UK), and various European studios represents equally important world animation cinema
Which South Korean director made 'Oldboy' (2003) - part of the Vengeance Trilogy?
- A. Lee Chang-dong
- B. Park Chan-wook
- C. Kim Ki-duk
- D. Bong Joon-ho
What Georgian film 'The Color of Pomegranates' (1969) by Sergei Parajanov is notable for?
- A. A visually extraordinary experimental biographical film about the Armenian poet Sayat-Nova using symbolic tableaux rather than conventional narrative
- B. Being the first Georgian talkie
- C. A war documentary
- D. A romantic comedy
What was the first foreign-language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture before Parasite?
- A. Life is Beautiful (1997)
- B. No film before Parasite had won Best Picture while also receiving a Foreign Language Film nomination
- C. Au Revoir les Enfants (1987)
- D. Z (1969)
What country produced 'Y Tu Mam Tambin' (2001) and who directed it?
- A. Brazil - Fernando Meirelles
- B. Argentina - Pablo Larran
- C. Mexico - Alfonso Cuarn
- D. Spain - Pedro Almodvar
What is the Colombian director Ciro Guerra's second film 'Birds of Passage' (2018) about?
- A. A romantic comedy
- B. A war film
- C. A Colombian epic tracing the origins of the drug trade through the indigenous Wayuu people of La Guajira - where cocaine trafficking destroyed traditional culture
- D. A love story
What is Pedro Almodvar's 'All About My Mother' (Todo sobre mi madre, 1999) celebrated for?
- A. Being an action blockbuster
- B. Being Spain's most commercially successful film
- C. Being Spain's first sound film
- D. A compassionate Spanish melodrama about loss and identity that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the Palme d'Or for Best Director at Cannes
What is the Danish film 'Babette's Feast' (1987) about and why is it famous?
- A. A quiet masterpiece about a French refugee who cooks an extraordinary meal for an austere religious community - won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
- B. A Viking epic
- C. A Danish horror film
- D. A romantic thriller
What is Andrei Tarkovsky's 'Solaris' (1972) about and from which country?
- A. A Soviet science fiction philosophical drama about a space station orbiting an ocean planet that manifests astronauts' memories as physical beings
- B. A German science fiction war film
- C. An Italian fantasy
- D. A French existential film
What is the German Expressionist film 'Nosferatu' (1922) and why is it significan't?
- A. An Austrian horror comedy
- B. Germany's first comedy
- C. Germany's first sound film
- D. An unauthorised adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula featuring the iconic Count Orlok - the first vampire film and a masterwork of German Expressionist cinema
What is the Taiwanese New Wave in cinema and who are its main directors?
- A. A 1990s action film movement
- B. A comedy movement
- C. A documentary tradition
- D. A 1980s-1990s movement featuring slow contemplative films about Taiwanese modernisation - Hou Hsiao-hsien and Edward Yang are its defining directors
What is the Chinese director Zhang Yimou known for?
- A. Japanese animation
- B. Hong Kong crime films
- C. French nouvelle vague
- D. Visually spectacular Chinese films including 'Raise the Red Lantern' (1991) and 'House of Flying Daggers' (2004) - and directing the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony
What film won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2019 alongside a rare jury prize tie?
- A. Bacurau
- B. Parasite (sole winner - but tied for the Palme d'Or)
- C. Parasite
- D. Atlantics
What is Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli most famous for?
- A. American superhero films
- B. Japanese animated feature films with extraordinary artistry including Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, and Princess Mononoke
- C. Horror animation
- D. Live-action action films
What is Ingmar Bergman's 'The Seventh Seal' (1957) famous for in cinema?
- A. Its iconic chess match between a medieval knight and Death - one of cinema's most famous images
- B. Being the first film to win the Palme d'Or
- C. Being the first Swedish film in colour
- D. Its portrayal of World War II through allegory
What country produced 'Shoplifters' (Manbiki Kazoku, 2018) that won the Palme d'Or at Cannes?
- A. South Korea
- B. Thailand
- C. China
- D. Japan
What is Bong Joon-ho's 'Memories of Murder' (2003) about?
- A. A South Korean true crime film about the first serial murders in Korean history and the incompetent investigation that failed to find the killer
- B. A science fiction thriller
- C. A supernatural horror film
- D. A romantic drama
Who directed the Danish Dogme 95 movement and what were its rules?
- A. Ingmar Bergman - no colour film only
- B. Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg - no artificial lighting, no post-production sound, handheld cameras only, no genre films, and no directorial credit
- C. Jean-Luc Godard - no actors allowed
- D. Federico Fellini - no sound allowed
What is the Chinese art cinema director Jia Zhangke known for?
- A. Chinese martial arts blockbusters
- B. Deeply observed films documenting China's rapid industrialisation and its human cost - 'Still Life' (2006) won the Golden Lion at Venice and 'A Touch of Sin' (2013) won Best Screenplay at Cannes
- C. Chinese romantic comedies
- D. Chinese science fiction
Which Mexican director's film 'Roma' (2018) won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film?
- A. Alfonso Cuarn
- B. Carlos Reygadas
- C. Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu
- D. Guillermo del Toro

World & Foreign Cinema Quiz

World & Foreign Cinema · Exam Mode

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What is the significance of Pixar and Disney in world animation cinema?

Which South Korean director made 'Oldboy' (2003) - part of the Vengeance Trilogy?

What Georgian film 'The Color of Pomegranates' (1969) by Sergei Parajanov is notable for?

What was the first foreign-language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture before Parasite?

What country produced 'Y Tu Mam Tambin' (2001) and who directed it?

What is the Colombian director Ciro Guerra's second film 'Birds of Passage' (2018) about?

What is Pedro Almodvar's 'All About My Mother' (Todo sobre mi madre, 1999) celebrated for?

What is the Danish film 'Babette's Feast' (1987) about and why is it famous?

What is Andrei Tarkovsky's 'Solaris' (1972) about and from which country?

What is the German Expressionist film 'Nosferatu' (1922) and why is it significan't?

What is the Taiwanese New Wave in cinema and who are its main directors?

What is the Chinese director Zhang Yimou known for?

What film won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2019 alongside a rare jury prize tie?

What is Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli most famous for?

What is Ingmar Bergman's 'The Seventh Seal' (1957) famous for in cinema?

What country produced 'Shoplifters' (Manbiki Kazoku, 2018) that won the Palme d'Or at Cannes?

What is Bong Joon-ho's 'Memories of Murder' (2003) about?

Who directed the Danish Dogme 95 movement and what were its rules?

What is the Chinese art cinema director Jia Zhangke known for?

Which Mexican director's film 'Roma' (2018) won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film?