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BFI Film Quiz – April 2015

General Knowledge 1 Name the US writer, actor and director who was presented with a prestigious BFI Fellowship earlier this year; his works include The Twelve Chairs and High Anxiety.

2 Which British director links the films Green Zone, Captain Phillips and Bloody Sunday?

3 Name the 1952 drama, directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring , that won the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Story and was also nominated for a further three awards.

4 Name the 2015 spy-action-comedy, directed by Matthew Vaughn and starring , which is one of the highest grossing films worldwide so far this year.

5 Which 1957 film, starring , was promoted with the tagline, “Life is in their hands; death is on their minds”?

Cannes Film Festival 2015 1 Which iconic actress appeared on the poster for the 2015 Cannes Film Festival?

2 For the first time, a pair of brothers presided over this year’s Cannes Feature Film Jury. Name them.

3 In what year was the Palme d’Or created, replacing the Grand Prix du Festival which had been awarded until that year?

4 This year the French director Jacques Audiard’s film Dheepan won the Palme d’Or. Which of Audiard’s films which premiered at Cannes in 2009, winning the Grand Prix?

5 And which director received widespread criticism from a vocal Cannes audience, for a sentimental film about two suicidal men wandering in a forest, starring Matthew McConaughey and Ken Watanabe?

Noel Coward 1 Name the imprisoned criminal mastermind played by Noel Coward in the classic 1969 film The Italian Job.

2 Which play, filmed for television in 1964, focuses on sexual vanity and drug abuse among the upper classes and was Coward’s first great commercial success?

3 Name the 1933 film adaptation of a Coward play which starred , Miriam Hopkins and .

4 Which French actor played the lead, alongside and Susannah York, in the 1974 TV adaptation of Coward’s Fallen Angels?

5 Who directed the 1959 film adaptation of Graham Greene’s Our Man in Havana, in which Coward starred alongside the likes of , and Maureen O’Hara? Guilty Pleasures 1 Which actress links the films Knocked Up, Whip It and Bridesmaids?

2 Name the 1991 action-comedy, starring Bruce Willis in the title role, which won that year’s Golden Rasp- berry Award for Worst Picture.

3 Name the 1969 British horror film, directed by Gordon Hessler and based on an Edgar Allan Poe story, which was the first to star Vincent Price alongside Christopher Lee.

4 Which actor directed himself in the much criticised 1989 sci-fi sequel Star Trek V: The Final Frontier?

5 Which actress played the title role in the 1996 adaptation of the Dark Horse comic book series Barb Wire, directed by David Hogan?

Southern Gothic 1 Name the 1949 film, directed by Clarence Brown, which stars Juano Hernandez as a black farmer falsely accused of murder.

2 Who directed the 1960 adaptation of The Fugitive Kind, based on ’ Orpheus Descend- ing, which stars as the drifter Val Xavier?

3 plays Atticus Finch in Robert Mulligan’s 1962 adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, but who wrote the original novel upon which the film is based?

4 Name the rarely screened 1960 film, directed by Luis Bunuel, which stars Bernie as Traver, a black man on the run from a lynching.

5 Which British actor plays the slave owner Warren Maxwell in Richard Fleischer’s controversial 1975 film Mandingo? Picture Round – British Prime Ministers Poster Round – Polish Film Posters 1 Roger Parrott - Neville Chamberlain - The King’s 1 / Scrooge Speech 2 Far From the Madding Crowd 2 Michael Sheen - Tony Blair - The Queen 3 Dracula 3 Clive Merrison - Clement Atlee - Bert & Dickie 4 The Mill on the Floss 4 Brendan Gleeson - Winston Churchill - Into the Storm 5 The Picture of Dorian Grey 5 - Benjamin - Disraeli 6 Vanity Fair 6 Julian Glover - Duke of Wellington - The Young 7 Frankenstein Victoria 8 7 Norman Page - David Lloyd Geroge - The Life Story of 9 The Time Machine David Lloyd George 10 Sense & Sensibility 8 David Morrissey - Gordon Brown - The Deal 9 James Bolam - Harold Wilson - The Plot against Harold Wilson Guilty Pleasures 10 - Margaret Thatcher - The Iron Lady 1 KRISTEN WIIG 2 HUDSON HAWK 3 THE OBLONG BOX General Knowledge 4 WILLIAM SHATNER 1 5 PAMELA ANDERSON 2 PAUL GREENGRASS 3 THE GREATEST SHOW ON 4 KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE 5 12 ANGRY MEN Southern Gothic 1 INTRUDER IN THE DUST 2 Cannes Film Festival 2015 3 HARPER LEE 1 4 THE YOUNG ONE 2 JOEL & ETHAN COEN 5 3 1955 4 A PROPHET 5 GUS VAN SANT

Noel Coward 1 MR BRIDGER 2 THE VORTEX 3 DESIGN FOR LIVING 4 SACHA DISTEL 5 CAROL REED