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Histoire(S) Du Cinéma
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  • 1. Which film is considered the first feature-length film ever made?
A) Metropolis
B) Trip to the Moon
C) The Story of the Kelly Gang
D) The Great Train Robbery
  • 2. Who directed the iconic film 'Citizen Kane'?
A) Alfred Hitchcock
B) Orson Welles
C) Francis Ford Coppola
D) Stanley Kubrick
  • 3. In which decade did the French New Wave movement emerge?
A) 1960s
B) 1950s
C) 1970s
D) 1940s
  • 4. Who is known for introducing the concept of the 'auteur theory' in cinema?
A) Luc Besson
B) Jean-Luc Godard
C) François Truffaut
D) Alfred Hitchcock
  • 5. Which film famously features a shower scene with a chilling musical score?
A) The Shining
B) Halloween
C) Rosemary's Baby
D) Psycho
  • 6. Who directed the film 'The Godfather'?
A) Francis Ford Coppola
B) Martin Scorsese
C) Quentin Tarantino
D) Steven Spielberg
  • 7. Which country is known for its influential 'Spaghetti Western' films?
A) Italy
B) Spain
C) Germany
D) France
  • 8. Which film is considered a landmark in the history of animated cinema?
A) Finding Nemo
B) The Lion King
C) Toy Story
D) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
  • 9. Who is known for pioneering the use of 3D technology in cinema with films like 'Avatar'?
A) Christopher Nolan
B) James Cameron
C) Peter Jackson
D) Zack Snyder
  • 10. Which film is famous for its iconic line 'Here's looking at you, kid'?
A) The Maltese Falcon
B) Gone with the Wind
C) Casablanca
D) Citizen Kane
  • 11. Who is known for creating the 'Kuleshov Effect' in film editing?
A) Lev Kuleshov
B) Sergei Eisenstein
C) Ingmar Bergman
D) Dziga Vertov
  • 12. Which film is considered the first 'talkie' in cinema history?
A) The Jazz Singer
B) Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
C) Battleship Potemkin
D) The General
  • 13. Who is the director of the critically acclaimed film 'Pan's Labyrinth'?
A) Alejandro González Iñárritu
B) Guillermo del Toro
C) Alfonso Cuarón
D) Pedro Almodóvar
  • 14. Which film won the first Academy Award for Best Picture?
A) Sunrise
B) All Quiet on the Western Front
C) Wings
D) The Broadway Melody
  • 15. Who is known for directing the 'Before' trilogy, starting with 'Before Sunrise'?
A) Richard Linklater
B) Wes Anderson
C) Joel Coen
D) Darren Aronofsky
  • 16. Which film is often credited with popularizing found footage as a narrative technique?
A) The Blair Witch Project
B) Paranormal Activity
C) REC
D) Cloverfield
  • 17. Who is known as the master of suspense in cinema?
A) Alfred Hitchcock
B) David Lynch
C) Stanley Kubrick
D) Quentin Tarantino
  • 18. Which film is famous for the iconic line 'You can't handle the truth!'?
A) A Few Good Men
B) Scent of a Woman
C) The Shawshank Redemption
D) Gladiator
  • 19. Who is known for directing the film 'Blade Runner'?
A) Steven Spielberg
B) James Cameron
C) Ridley Scott
D) George Lucas
  • 20. Which French New Wave director is known for films like 'Breathless' and 'Weekend'?
A) Eric Rohmer
B) Jacques Rivette
C) Jean-Luc Godard
D) François Truffaut
  • 21. Which country is often credited with the birth of cinema?
A) France
B) United States
C) Italy
D) Germany
  • 22. Who directed the movie 'The Seventh Seal'?
A) Robert Bresson
B) Ingmar Bergman
C) Michelangelo Antonioni
D) Andrei Tarkovsky
  • 23. In which year was the Lumière Brothers' first public screening of films?
A) 1905
B) 1915
C) 1895
D) 1925
  • 24. Which movie marked the first appearance of Mickey Mouse?
A) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
B) Steamboat Willie
C) Bambi
D) Fantasia
  • 25. Who directed the famous silent film 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'?
A) F.W. Murnau
B) D.W. Griffith
C) Georges Méliès
D) Robert Wiene
  • 26. What is the name of the legendary film editor known for her work on movies like 'Lawrence of Arabia' and 'The English Patient'?
A) Dede Allen
B) Verna Fields
C) Thelma Schoonmaker
D) Anne V. Coates
  • 27. Who is known for the concept of 'mise-en-scène' in film?
A) André Bazin
B) Vsevolod Pudovkin
C) Jean Renoir
D) Sergei Eisenstein
  • 28. Who directed the film 'Paths of Glory'?
A) Andrei Tarkovsky
B) Ingmar Bergman
C) Stanley Kubrick
D) Akira Kurosawa
  • 29. In which film did Audrey Hepburn play the iconic character Holly Golightly?
A) Breakfast at Tiffany's
B) Funny Face
C) Roman Holiday
D) Sabrina
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