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BFI FILM QUIZ – JANUARY 2013

QUESTIONS

General Knowledge 1. Who won the Golden Globe for New Star of the Year for his performance as Wade Lewis in 1965’s Inside Daisy Clover? 2. Which 1973 film was promoted with the tagline, “In 1959 a lot of people were killing time; Kit and Holly were killing people”? 3. Which composer’s film work saw him provide scores for films including Patton, Chinatown and Total Recall, as well as winning an Oscar in 1977 for ? 4. Only three films in the history of the have won the Oscar for Best Picture without also receiving a Best Director nomination: Wings, Grand Hotel and which 1989 film? 5. Who directed the 1961 film The Misfits, which proved the final big screen appearance for both Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe?

New in 2013 1. JJ Abrams is back this year, with Star Trek Into Darkness. Which British actor will play infamous Trekkie villain, Khan?

2. returns to woo the popular audience this year too, with a star-studded drama which will reportedly be released in ‘hardcore’ and ‘softcore’ versions, the former of which will apparently feature genuine unsimulated sex scenes. Name it.

3. In May, ’s is released, his first outing since the disastrous Australia in 2008. Leonardo DiCaprio and star – but who played the roles of Jay Gatsby and in the 1974 version of the Gatbsy, directed by ?

4. Tarantino and Spielberg both tackle the thorny subject of slavery in their 2013 releases, but which artist- turned-director will join the debate later this year in an adaptation of the memoirs of Solomon Northup, a free black man sold into slavery in the years before the American Civil War?

5. Several recent Oscar-winning directors are releasing their first post-award films this year. Here are three directors, name the films due to hit screens this year: a) Kathryn Bigelow b) c)

Roman Polanski 1. What was ’s first feature length film, which was Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, but lost to Fellini’s 8 1/2? 2. Polanski’s 1974 film Chinatown, starring Jack Nicholson, was nominated for eleven Oscars, but only won one; which one? 3. Name the 2010 thriller, directed by Polanski, which was based on a novel by Robert Harris and concerns a thinly-veiled portrait of Tony Blair. 4. Who played the title character in Polanski’s 1976 film Tess, based on Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbevilles, allegedly having an underage relationship with the director during filming? 5. In 2005, Polanski directed a film adaptation of which Charles Dickens novel, starring ?

Guilty Pleasures 1. Which actress is to play the title role in the remake of Stephen King’s Carrie, due for release in March? 2. Name the fifth instalment in the Die Hard film series, due to hit screens next month. 3. Which director’s CV includes the films Splash, Cocoon and Parenthood? 4. In 2003, Travis Payne became the inaugural winner of the Governor’s Award at the Razzies, for what contribution to the film From Justin to Kelly? 5. Which actress links the films Body Double, Something Wild and Stuart Little 2?

Screwball! 1. Which German-born director was responsible for many classic films of the golden age of screwball comedies, with his contributions including Trouble in Paradise, Ninotchka and That Uncertain Feeling? 2. In which 1938 screwball comedy – a commercial disaster on its original release but now considered a classic – does Cary Grant play a palaeontologist called David Huxley? 3. Which actress starred as Ellie Andrews, alongside Clark Gable, in ’s It Happened One Night? 4. Howard Hawks’ 1940 screwball comedy His Girl Friday was an adaptation of which hit Broadway play, though the character of Hildy Johnson was changed from male to female? 5. Which 1936 screwball comedy, starring William Powell and his former wife Carole Lombard, was the first to be nominated for an Oscar in all four acting categories?

ANSWERS

Picture Round: Mothers in Film 1. Mia Farrow – Rosemary’s Baby 2. Uma Thurman – Kill Bill (or Kill Bill 2) 3. – The Fly 4. Katherine Heigl – Knocked Up 5. Ellen Paige – Juno 6. Arnold Schwarzenegger – Junior 7. Samantha Eggar – The Brood 8. – We Need to Talk About Kevin 9. Cameron Diaz – What to Expect When You’re Expecting 10. – Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith

Poster Round: Spaghetti Westerns 1. Once Upon a Time in the West 2. Red Sun 3. Minnesota Clay 4. Johnny Oro 5. The Ruthless Four 6. Blood for a Silver Dollar 7. Django 8. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 9. Apache Gold 10. Fistful of Dollars

General Knowledge 6. 7. BADLANDS 8. JERRY GOLDSMITH 9. DRIVING MISS DAISY 10.

New in 2013 1. 2. Nymphomaniac 3. Robert Redford and Mia Farrow 4. Steve McQueen 5. a) ; b) Trance; c) The Wolf of Wall Street

Roman Polanski 6. 7. BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY 8. THE GHOST WRITER 9. NATASHA KINSKI 10. OLIVER TWIST

Guilty Pleasures 6. CHLOE MORETZ 7. A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD 8. 9. DISTINGUISHED UNDER-ACHIEVEMENT IN CHOREOGRAPHY 10. MELANIE GRIFFITH

Screwball! 6. ERNEST LUBITSCH 7. BRINGING UP BABY 8. CLAUDETTE COLBERT 9. THE FRONT PAGE 10. MY MAN GODFREY