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Brief Quiz on Italian Cinema 22 Questions

1. The Italian film directors of the 1940s and early 1950s were famous for a type of film belonging to the school called

a) the New Wave b) Neo Realism c) Surrealism d) black Comedies

2. The most prestigious film directors in Italy immediately after World War II were

a) De Sica b) Rossellini c) Fellini d) a and b

3. The Neo Realist films dealt with a) everyday life b) poor people

c) the harsh reality of modern city life d) all the above

4. In the 1960s a school of Italian arty films came to the fore; the story line in these movies is sometimes quite hard to follow, the stories are jerky and fragmented. There are lots of "interesting" camera shots. Life is shown as pointless. The best known directors of this period are a) Ponti and Di Laurentiis b) Visconti and Pasolini c) Fellini and Antonioni

d) De Sica and Rossellini

5. What is the name of the prestigious school of movies of the late 1940s?

a) surreal b) realist c) neorealist d) postmodern

6. Important Italian film directors who won Oscars are

a) Kurasawa b) Rossellini c) De Sica d) Satyajit Ray e) b and c

7. What aspect of Italian films attracted attention throughout the world in the 1950s?

a) the neo realism b) the photography c) the stunning women in the films

d) the comic nature of the films

8. Why were Americans late in realizing what terrific-looking actresses the Italians had, when everywhere else in the world knew already?

a) Foreign films tend to be considered highbrow in the U.S.

b) Foreign films don't usually get shown at ordinary cinemas in the U.S., whereas in other countries there isn't this type of distinction

c) Foreign films are not seen by most people in the U.S. d) all the above

b) people don't think of foreign movies as necessarily "intellectual" like Americans do

c) people are avid movie goers in general d) all of the above

10. When did movies start being shot "on location," as opposed to Hollywood sets?

a) the 1950s b) the 1960s c) the 1970s d) the 1980s

11. Where were the "spaghetti westerns" of the 1960s, directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood, shot? a) in Arizona b) in Utah c) in Italy/Sicily d) in Nevada

12. The poet, social critic and film maker Pier Paolo Pasolini made a beautiful film on the life of a) Leonardo b) Christ c) Michelangelo d) Visconti e) Mussolini

14. Italian film-making dates back to a)around 1850

b) around 1900-1910 (same as anywhere else) c) 1920 d) 1930

15. Italy developed a film industry, same as anywhere else!) round about the

a) 1920s b) 1930s c) 1940s d) 1950s

16. Italian film making boomed and films made in Italy, backed by Hollywood money, with actors from several countries became very big in the 1950s and 60s. Examples of these films are a) Spartacus b) Ben Hur c) The Leopard d) all the above

17. A film made in Sicily in the 1960s has come to be regarded as a classic. This film is based on a novel that has become a classic too, since it was published in the 1950s. It was written by an Italian aristocrat and intellectual who was related to the Prince who is the main character of the novel and who is played by Burt Lancaster. The author died around the time the book came out. The film is called a) La Romana b) Il Gattoparto (The Leopard) c) Il Pagliacci

d) Cavalleria Rusticana

18. The above film deals with a) the unification of Italy in the 1800s

b) the change to "modern" Italy

c) the way in which old aristocratic families adapt in order to survive*

d) all the above

(*a lot of them married rich bourgeois Americans! Henry James and Edith Wharton deal with that aspect!. See The Wings of the Dove, Daisy Miller, etc.)

19. Which film maker was a glamorous film star himself in the 1930s and won an Oscar for a grim neo realist film in the 40s, made extremely popular films in the 50s, and his last film is early post-modern (and is very funny)? a) Roberto Rosellini b) Vittorio De Sica

c) Federico Fellini d) Carlo Ponti

20. Opera came into being in the Italian courts in the 1600s, but some aspects of Italian theatre date back to the time of the Romans, such as the stock characters of Italian popular theater called Commedia dell'Arte. They are characters such as the sad lover, the pert pretty-girl, the stupid old man, the nagging wife, the boastful soldier, etc., and they still show up in sitcoms on TV to this day. They spread to other European countries and appear in Punch and Judy shows, marionette theater, mime, English pantomine. The names of some of these characters are

a) Harlequin b) Columbina c) Pantaloon (Pantaleone)/Punchinello d) all the above

21. Some fine Italian actors have became world famous through cinema, but even earlier, Eleanora Duse was a heart-throb of the theatre! Thanks to the cinema we have films of great Italian actors, such as

a) Duse herself b) Anna Magnani c) Vittorio Gassman d) all those, and others

22. The invention of recording and film has made great changes in the world. We can now listen to and see great performances that might have become legends in earlier times, mysterious and unknown to us. Eleanora Duse, Anna Magnani, Vittorio Gassman, Giuletta Massina...we can actually see these actors on screen. One of the greatest singers who ever lived died over 80 years ago now, but we have proof how really great he was; he is

a) Placido Domingo b) Enrico Caruso c) Luciano Pavarotti d) Beniamino Gigli