What is a film?Do you like watching films?What films do you prefer?

Think over! Give your commentaryDoes art reflect life? In movies, yes. Because

more than any other art form, films have been a mirror held up to society's porous face.Marjorie Rosen

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.Ingmar Bergman

What are your associations?

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Do you love cinema as I do? How many movies have you seen? Although film is a collaborative medium, the

invention of cinema (dating roughly to the mid-1890s) has generally been credited to but two Frenchmen — brothers Auguste and Louis. They are:

The Brothers KaramazovThe Lumière BrothersThe Brothers QuayThe Coen Brothers

Some of actresses pictured above have all been regarded as cultural icons and/or sex symbols. Which actress listed below is not pictured among them?

Sofia LorenBrigitte BardotScarlett JohanssonRita HayworthPenélope CruzMarilyn Monroe

Silent films were the norm in cinema before "talkies" (early sound films) advanced filmmaking from merely "moving pictures" toward the full-fledged art form as we know it today. When (approximately) did sound film replace silent film, thus becoming the standard throughout cinema production?

19001915193019451960

"Photography is truth. Cinema is truth at 24 frames per second." To what filmmaker is this famous quote attributed?

Orson WellesJean-Luc GodardRainer Werner FassbinderFederico Fellini