Q 01/05

Which film festival jeered Antonioni's L'Avventura in 1960, then gave it a jury prize days later?

A) Venice

B) Berlin

C) Cannes

D) Locarno

Answer · why

C) Cannes

Cannes: the catcalls were so fierce that Antonioni and his leading actress were reduced to tears, and there was more booing when the prize was announc...

Q 02/05

Which three films make up Antonioni's so-called 'alienation trilogy'?

A) Blowup, Zabriskie Point and The Passenger

B) L'Avventura, La Notte and L'Eclisse

C) Il Grido, Le Amiche and I Vinti

D) Red Desert, La Notte and Blowup

Answer · why

B) L'Avventura, La Notte and L'Eclisse

L'Avventura, La Notte and L'Eclisse came out in three successive years; the first was jeered at its premiere, and within two years critics were voting...

Q 03/05

Which 1974 thriller was conceived as Blowup moved into the world of surveillance?

A) The Parallax View

B) Chinatown

C) The Conversation

D) The Odessa File

Answer · why

C) The Conversation

The Conversation: Coppola wanted to fuse the idea of Blowup with audio surveillance, a tape in place of a photograph, and Brian De Palma paid his own ...

Q 04/05

In which city was Antonioni born?

A) Verona

B) Ferrara

C) Bologna

D) Turin

Answer · why

B) Ferrara

Ferrara's local paper printed his first film reviews before he left for Rome at twenty-seven to work in films himself.

Q 05/05

Where was Antonioni filming when he abandoned an early documentary because the floodlights terrified its subjects?

A) In a prison yard

B) In a mental asylum

C) In a cattle market

D) In an orphanage

Answer · why

B) In a mental asylum

In a mental asylum: the patients had helped him set up, but when the lights came on they panicked, and it was the asylum's director who shouted for th...