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World Cinema Beyond Hollywood
Tokyo, Tehran, Rio and Ouagadougou. The films and movements that shaped cinema far from Los Angeles. Can you keep up once the subtitles arrive?
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hard
20 questions
~7 min
What this quiz asks
- Who directed the 1954 epic Seven Samurai?
- The French New Wave grew out of critics writing for the magazine Cahiers du Cinema.
- Which movement filmed post-war Italy on real streets, often using non-professional actors?
- Which 1960 Jean-Luc Godard film is treated as a founding work of the French New Wave?
- Which Federico Fellini film gave English the word 'paparazzi'?
- Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy opens with which 1955 film?
- Is 'Nollywood' the nickname for Nigeria's film industry?
- Which Brazilian film, co-directed by Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund, follows life in a Rio favela?
- Park Chan-wook's Oldboy belongs to which loosely linked set of films?
- Select ALL of these that are works of Italian neorealism.
- Which Iranian film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2012 ceremony?
- Yasujiro Ozu typically placed his camera very low, near the height of someone kneeling on the floor.
- Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige are the best-known names of which group of Chinese filmmakers?
- Which Iranian director won the Palme d'Or in 1997 for Taste of Cherry?
- Ousmane Sembene, often called the father of African cinema, came from which country?
- Select ALL of these directors who are Japanese.
- Glauber Rocha was a leading voice of which Brazilian film movement of the 1960s?
- FESPACO, the largest film festival on the African continent, is held in which city?
- Order these films from earliest release to latest.
- How many minutes long is the full uncut version of Seven Samurai?