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World & Foreign Cinema Quiz
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World and foreign cinema encompasses films produced outside Hollywood and English-language markets, representing an enormous diversity of storytelling traditions, aesthetics, and c...
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All 20 questions in this World & Foreign Cinema quiz
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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
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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
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What Brazilian director made 'Central Station' (1998) - an internationally acclaimed film about a former schoolteacher and a young boy?
- A. Fernando Meirelles
- B. Jos Padilha
- C. Walter Salles
- D. Joo Pedro Rodrigues
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What is the Lebanese film 'Capernaum' (Capharnam, 2018) directed by Nadine Labaki about?
- A. A romantic comedy
- B. A Lebanese war film
- C. A Lebanese drama about a 12-year-old boy who sues his parents for bringing him into a life of poverty and neglect - nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
- D. A historical film
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What is the Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev known for?
- A. Russian blockbuster comedies
- B. Russian science fiction
- C. Russian war films
- D. Austere, morally serious films about Russian society and family - 'Leviathan' (2014) and 'Loveless' (2017) won major international awards
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What is the Mexican film 'Pan's Labyrinth' - in what language and what Oscar did it win?
- A. Portuguese - won Best Foreign Language Film
- B. French - won Best Foreign Language Film
- C. English - won Best Director
- D. Spanish - won three Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, and Best Makeup - but was not submitted by Spain for Best Foreign Language Film
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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
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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
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What is the significance of Luchino Visconti in Italian cinema?
- A. He made only documentaries
- B. He invented Italian comedy
- C. He founded neorealism alone
- D. An aristocratic Italian director who bridged neorealism and operatic melodrama - 'The Leopard' (Il Gattopardo, 1963) with Burt Lancaster is considered Italy's greatest historical epic
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What is 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' (2000) directed by and from which country?
- A. Zhang Yimou from China
- B. Akira Kurosawa from Japan
- C. Ang Lee - a Taiwanese-American director - from Taiwan/China
- D. John Woo from Hong Kong
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What is 'City of God' (2002) and from which country does it originate?
- A. A French crime film
- B. A Mexican narco-thriller
- C. A Brazilian crime drama about youth gangs in Rio de Janeiro's favelas - considered one of the greatest films of the 21st century
- D. An Italian gangster film
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What is the Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai known for?
- A. Realistic social documentaries
- B. Lyrical films about memory, longing, and time including 'In the Mood for Love' and 'Chungking Express' - known for visually distinctive cinematography and fragmented narratives
- C. Making martial arts action films
- D. Horror films set in contemporary Hong Kong
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What is the significance of the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film and when was it introduced?
- A. It has existed since 1929
- B. Introduced in 1948 (as Best Foreign Language Film, renamed in 2020) to honour films produced outside the United States - won most often by Italy, France, Spain, and more recently South Korea and Iran
- C. Introduced in 1970 after lobbying by European studios
- D. It is an honorary award not voted on
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What is the Danish film 'Another Round' (Druk, 2020) by Thomas Vinterberg about and what award did it win?
- A. A romantic drama
- B. A documentary about alcoholism
- C. A film about four teachers who conduct an experiment maintaining a constant low level of alcohol - won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film with Mads Mikkelsen in the lead
- D. A Danish action film
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What film did Bernardo Bertolucci direct that became one of the most successful European films in American cinema?
- A. The Last Emperor
- B. The Dreamers
- C. 1900
- D. The Conformist
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What is the significance of Akira Kurosawa's 'Rashomon' (1950) in cinema history?
- A. The first Japanese film to use colour
- B. Introduced slow motion cinematography
- C. The first film with a female director
- D. Introduced the narrative concept of multiple conflicting perspectives of the same event - radically influencing world cinema storytelling
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What is the Taiwanese director Edward Yang's 'Yi Yi' (2000) about?
- A. A three-hour meditation on a Taipei family across three generations facing life's major transitions - widely considered one of the greatest films of the 21st century
- B. A martial arts epic
- C. A horror film
- D. A historical epic
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What is the Romanian New Wave in cinema and which film most exemplifies it?
- A. A 2000s film movement using long takes and naturalistic acting - '4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days' (2007) by Cristian Mungiu best exemplifies it
- B. A 1960s Romanian documentary movement
- C. A 1920s movement
- D. A commercial entertainment genre
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What Israeli director Ari Folman's 'S1m0ne' is and how it connects to 'Waltz with Bashir'?
- A. Ari Folman directed Waltz with Bashir (2008) - an animated documentary - and The Congress (2013) - a live-action/animation hybrid - but not S1m0ne which is by Andrew Niccol
- B. Two unrelated films
- C. Folman directed both films
- D. S1m0ne is Waltz with Bashir under a different title
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What is the significance of Bernardo Bertolucci's 'Last Tango in Paris' (1972)?
- A. Italy's first colour film
- B. A war film
- C. A family drama
- D. A sexually explicit Franco-Italian film starring Marlon Brando that caused enormous controversy in 1972 and explored grief, sexuality, and alienation - Bertolucci and the film were convicted of obscenity in Italy