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