50 Movies By 50 Directors Quiz

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50 Movies By 50 Directors Quiz

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Created Mar 29, 2012 in Movies
Featured Apr 15, 2013
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	Krom:	Apr 15th, 2013 at 15:38 GMT		3 points
	Great quiz! killed my work productivity, 10 minutes for the quiz, and then I spent another 40 minutes looking up movies and directors.

	witz1960:	Apr 15th, 2013 at 15:52 GMT		4 points
	If there is a followup quiz, I will, again, be looking for Pedro Almovodar.

	BPaladin:	Apr 15th, 2013 at 15:54 GMT		2 points
	Loved this quiz and look forward to a sequel!

	jbphillips:	Apr 15th, 2013 at 16:41 GMT		8 points
	Can you provide the original titles for translated names? _Un chien andalou_ is rarely translated to English as An Andalusian Dog so it took me a while to connect that to its director.

	rct:	Apr 15th, 2013 at 16:48 GMT		4 points
	Have to second jbphillips, some of these are much better known by their foreign titles. There's no need to translate and translating actually obscures some of them.

	PureKStyle:	Apr 15th, 2013 at 16:53 GMT		5 points
	The Ed Wood clue threw me for just a second. I was trying to think of movies directed by Ed Wood.

	stevoreno79:	Apr 15th, 2013 at 17:23 GMT		4 points
	Awesome quiz. It's times like these I think goodness for the Criterion Collection. I don't think I would have known so many of these if it wasn't for them.

	abh273:	Apr 15th, 2013 at 17:44 GMT		4 points
	I have a quiz just like this but it isn't clickable http://www.sporcle.com/games/abh273/movie-series-by-director

	guide:	Apr 15th, 2013 at 20:23 GMT		3 points
	I switched Un Chien Andalou, thanks for that feedback. If there are other specific foreign titles that are rarely translated, don't hesitate to use the "report a mistake" link below and we'll investigate.

	courbet:	Apr 15th, 2013 at 22:52 GMT		4 points
	49 men, one woman. Tells you something about the film industry.

	juviejay:	Apr 15th, 2013 at 23:48 GMT		-2 points
	@courbet. That women can't direct? Just kidding.

	DarkPhalanx:	Apr 15th, 2013 at 23:58 GMT		5 points
	Army of Shadows is an amazing film, by the way

	rct:	Apr 16th, 2013 at 02:13 GMT		4 points
	@DarkPhalanx: Agreed, and I'll add that most of these are amazing. I can't recommend 'The Decalogue' enough, even if you're not religious. Simply beautiful (although I will note that it was more of a 10-part miniseries rather than a movie, but whatevs).

	K7vn:	Apr 16th, 2013 at 11:06 GMT		1 point
	For the people asking about a sequel to this quiz, I already did an advanced edition some time ago: http://www.sporcle.com/games/K7vn/50-movies-by-50-directors---advanced-edition

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	JoeMurphy:	Apr 16th, 2013 at 13:28 GMT		3 points
	@matt01, when you consider the very large number of people on earth, and the very small percentage of them who ever actually get a movie made, it's very dangerous to consider that "a man's brain" is particularly "suited" for it. The math just doesn't work. There are differences in neuroanatomy between men and women, but if you can't point to a specific brain region, it makes a lot more sense to look at culture first.

	gwynn19:	Apr 16th, 2013 at 13:29 GMT		2 points
	@matt01 - or maybe it's because, for the most part, film directors (and chefs) work as part of a system, where they are required to manage a staff and a "project" and need to be entrusted by studios or corporations; authors and poets are generally more independent. I don't know how you can look at the difference in those situations and attribute it to anything other than opportunity (or lack thereof).

	matt01:	Apr 16th, 2013 at 13:45 GMT		-3 points
	@gwynn19 @JoeMurphy Actually read what I said, Generations of sexism and cultural influences are a massive reason as to why but we are more visually stimulated, we absorb information and produce an outcome and evaluate things more and in a more direct fashion. Women are better at creating new thoughts and evaluations on smaller information, we use the left side of our brain more prominently, women have a better balance. This means there are going to be SLIGHTLY more men as directors or chefs, and more girls as writers. Culture and oppression are the main reasons for such a differencial but there are other reasons too, that's all I was alluding to.

	jeffg3wksapart:	Apr 16th, 2013 at 18:33 GMT		1 point
	@DarkPhalanx: Another agree here, tho it was something of a departure for J-P M, albeit somewhat personal since he was in the French Resistance during WW2. I assume u've checked out his great crime/caper films--as good as any of that genre from Hollywood in the 50's and 60's.

	bingobongo:	Apr 17th, 2013 at 04:23 GMT		2 points
	Nice variety, but it is almost blasphemy, especially for someone who clearly knows their movies, to leave off Howard Hawks entirely just for the sake of including Scarface for Brian DePalma! I would have like to use Dressed to Kill for him anyway.

	lynnline:	Apr 17th, 2013 at 19:06 GMT		2 points
	@matt01 - people like you are the reason there aren't more women in those posittions. You are sexist and try to justify it with false logic and fiction.

	matt01:	Apr 19th, 2013 at 13:54 GMT		1 point
	@lynnline No I'm not, women are far more mature and better at life than most men, and are better at as much things as men are better than women at doing. If I was sexist I would say men are better at everything, which is rubbish.