CHAPTER 15 – INTERNATIONAL CINEMA IN THE 1970s
Multiple Choice
1. Which of the following national film movements waned in the 1970s?
a. Kitchen Sink
b. New Wave
c. both a and b
d. neither a nor b
2. In a film by French director Bertrand Blier, a woman is usually a
a. femme fatale.
b. catalyst of action.
c. mother figure.
d. intruder/outsider .
3. Which of the following is a true about Dian Kurys?
a. not rigidly feminist
b. worked in America
c. made Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
d. all of the above
4. Which film movement did the West German Das Neue Kino closely resemble initially?
a. Angry Young Man
b. Surrealist
c. Neorealist
d. New Wave
5. The German director most obsessed with American movies was
a. Klaus Kinski
b. Wim Wenders
c. Volker Schlöndorff
d. Werner Herzog
6. Werner Herzog’s films are characterized by which of the following?
a. mythic quest
b. exaggerated and conceptual rather than realistic
c. poetic imagery and black humor
d. all of the above
7. Which of the following was Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s favorite kind of movie to make?
a. film noir
b. women’s pictures
c. science fiction
d. all of the above
8. What film/title might serve as the overarching theme of the movies of Rainer Werner Fassbinder?
a. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
b. All That Heaven Allows
c. Love is Colder Than Death
d. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
9. What political philosophy characterizes the films of Bernardo Bertolucci and Lena Wertmuller?
a. Republicism
b. Marxism
c. Anarchism
d. Communism
10. Paolo and Vittorio Taviani tended to be directors in the neorealist tradition except that in one of their
films, one might find that
a. music might swell from nowhere.
b. imagination might recast characters.
c. the thoughts of characters might be heard.
d. all of the above
11. Which actor of great comedic skill appears in many of Lena Wertmuller’s films?
a. Giancarlo Giannini
b. Gerard Depardieu
c. Klaus Kinski
d. Bruno S.
12. The Russian/Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky, an avant-garde artist, could make his movies and get
them seen gave some indication that the Soviet Union in the 70s was developing
a. interest in profitable movies.
b. more tolerance.
c. sensitivity to foreign film criticism.
d. none of the above
13. Unlike many national cinemas, Australian cinema in the 1970s was?
a. unpopular in Australia
b. unprofitable
c. government supported
d. very nationalistic
14. Australian directors invariably moved on to make movies in America where they
a. continued telling Australian-oriented stories.
b. met with mixed results.
c. had no success.
d. broke new ground because of better resources.
15. George Miller’s Mad Max movies incorporated bits from which of the following genres?
a. biker films
b. comic strips
c. leather S & M
d. all of the above
16. Third World cinema made its appeal to the audience’s sense of
a. balance.
b. justice.
c. economics.
d. adventure.
17. The films of the Third World in the 70s were characterized by being
a. Marxist.
b. realistic.
c. powerful and grim.
d. all of the above
True/False
(Place a T or an F in the line following the sentence.)
1. Monty Python’s Life of Brian is a faithful adaptation of the life of Brian Brown, an important, but
unheralded political cartoonist.
2. German cinema of the 1970s was obsessed with all things German.
3. Wim Wender’s protagonists are usually men who are weirded out and drifting purposelessly.
4. Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s favorite characters were lonely hearts of the middle class.
5. The abiding trademark in a Bernardo Bertolucci film is a traveling shot in a dance scene.
6. True equality in a Lena Wertmuller films is usually associated with true love between equal partners.
7. Nikita Mikhalkov was Soviet cinema’s bad boy director because his films failed to conform to the
Party’s line.
8. Australian cinema has been cited for its manliness: male bonding and virile friendships.
9. Third World cinema rejected the conventions of both American and European cinema in favor of what
was often blended Marxism and nationalism.
Matching
1) Diane Kurys ___
2) Rainer Werner Fassbinder ___
3) Andrei Tarkovsky ___
4) Nicholas Roeg ___
5) Ken Russell ___
6) Gillian Armstrong ___
7) Volker Schlöndorff ___
8) Ousmane Sembene ___
9) Werner Herzog ___
10) Lena Wertmuller ___
a. The Tin Drum
b. Every Man for Himself and God Against All
c. Peppermint Soda
d. Swept Away
e. My Brilliant Career
f. Xala
g. Solaris
h. Tommy
i. The Marriage of Maria Braun
j. The Man Who Fell to Earth
ANS:
Short Answer
1. How would French director Diane Kurys’ female characters best be described?
2. With what other medium was German cinema of the 70s linked and in what ways?
3. What thematic traits did Italian directors Bernardo Bertolucci and Lena Wertmuller share?
4. What traits did many of the state-sponsored 70s films of Australia share?
Essay Questions
1. To what extent does a focus on sex rule European films of the 70s?
2. Were German movies of the 70s generally optimistic and success driven as in classical cinema, or were
they generally pessimistic and bleak? Use examples.
3. Were Australian movies of the 70s generally optimistic and success driven as in classical cinema, or
where they generally pessimistic and bleak? Use examples.
4. What Marxist qualities can be seen in the Italian films of the 70s?