Cinematic Alphabet Quiz: The Synecdoche Awards

The Synecdoche Awards

meaning: part of something is used to refer to the whole thing

                  The Orson (award)

Thank you for playing. The Awards can be found after the jump...

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The Awards/Prizes (trophies/badges/avatars) can be used as icons or pics in forums, facebook, etc. These were created by Neil Posis, he's a an artist that specializes in painting, comic books, and caricatures. I served as the backseat art director/reference provider.

Please take (save to your computer) the appropriate awards that you have earned. Like in the scoring, we are going by the honor system. 

For example: If you scored 100 points, you win the Griffith Award and get to also have the awards/trophies that your points cover--including the Orson and the Eisenstein awards.

The Orson [Welles]:  54 and below
The Eisenstein:  55-84 points
The Griffith:  85-108 points
The Murnau (Sunrise prize): 109-126 points
The Méliès (Moon prize):  127-144 points
The Lumières Brothers:  145-156 points
The Louis Le Prince:  157-166 points

Revision: Added small versions of the awards to use as forum or profile pictures at the bottom.

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Point Ranges & Prizes Tomorrow

Cinematic Alphabet Quiz: Bonus Features (answers to A in the comments)

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Cinematic Alphabet Quiz: A

Welcome to Name That Film: A (answers to B in comments)
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Cinematic Alphabet Quiz: B

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Warm Up for B (zero points)

This is for pure aesthetics (the Kant kind) and zero points...thanks Mr. Coutard.

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Cinematic Alphabet Quiz: C

Welcome to Name That Film: C (answers to D in comments)
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The Third Place Club

Top Ten Third-Favorite Film 

from American Directors*

1. Manhattan  (Woody Allen, 1979)
2. The Long Goodbye  (Robert Altman, 1973)
3. North by Northwest  (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)**
4. The Thin Red Line  (Terrence Malick, 1998)***
5. His Girl Friday  (Howard Hawks, 1940)
6. Sabrina  (Billy Wilder, 1954)****
7. Hard Eight  (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1996)
8. The Royal Tenenbaums  (Wes Anderson, 2001)
9. Taxi Driver  (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
10. Apocalypse Now  (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)

Honorable Mentions 

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Coen), Memento (Nolan), Dazed and Confused (Linklater)

*  I'm mostly sure this is according to how much I like the director, not by movie.  To qualify for this list, I needed to have seen at least half of the director's body of work. Orson Welles should be on this list, but I need to see/rewatch more of his films past The Magnificent Ambersons. Sadly, I didn't consider Nicholas Ray, John Ford, and John Cassavetes for similar reasons.

** I am claiming Hitchcock for the US.

*** I have not seen his latest, The Tree of Life.

**** Yes, I snubbed Sunset Boulevard and Some Like It Hot for this.

Cinematic Alphabet Quiz: D

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I'm Glad This Movie Exists #2

When the Cat's Away (1996)

Written & Directed by Cédric Klapisch

Janet Maslin's review, Again, the awesome trailer in case your browser can't view the embedded version.
It should be added to my list of Films That Need a Bluray Release since it isn't even on DVD (US).

Also see Klapisch's Un Air de Famille (1996), written by Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri.

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Cinematic Alphabet Quiz: E

Welcome to Name That Film: E (answers to Cinematic Alphabet Quiz: F in comments)
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