PART 1

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 1 Which legendary director was responsible for the films Ben Hur, The Best Years of Our Lives and Mrs Miniver, all of which won both the Best Film and Best Director Oscars in their respective years?

2 Name the Iranian director of films including Taste of Cherry and Certified Copy, who was the recipient of a BFI Fellowship in 2005.

3 For which 1964 British drama was Britt Ekland originally cast as the character Karen Eriksson, though she was later replaced by Mia Farrow as her husband Peter Sellers was afraid she would have an affair with co-star John Leyton?

4 Which Academy Award winning actress made her directorial debut with the 2007 comedy-drama Then She Found Me?

5 The composer John Williams won the BAFTA for Best Film Music in 1975 for which two of his scores (a point for each)?

LFF 1 Which actor’s debut directorial effort, Don Jon, in which he appears as a pornography addict alongside Scarlett Johansson, will be shown at the Laugh Gala of the 2013 BFI London Film Festival?

2 Name the 1961 Western, to be screened at the festival, which marks Marlon Brando’s sole foray into film directing.

3 The Invisible Woman, which will be screened as the Festival Gala, features which British actor as Charles Dickens; he also directed the film?

4 Name the new film by former Turner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen, which stars Chiwetel Ejiofor alongside Michael Fassbender in a tale of pre-Civil War America.

5 James Franco’s latest film as a director, As I Lay Dying, is an adaptation of which writer’s Great Depression-era novel?

CLAUDE SAUTET 1 Name Sautet’s 1978 film, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and which starred Claude Brasseur.

2 Name the Austrian-born actress whose career Sautet revived; she starred in several of his films, including Les Choses de la Vie and Max et les Ferrailleurs and was also briefly engaged to Alain Delon.

3 In 1993, Sautet won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival for which film, considered by many to be his masterpiece?

4 In 1996 Sautet won the Cesar Award for Best Director for the second time, for his film Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud, but which actress starred in the film, having also appeared in his previous CesarAward winning effort?

5 Which 1956 French comedy marked Claude Sautet’s debut as a director and starred Henri Salvador? PART 2

GUILTY PLEASURES 1 Name the singer who starred in the much panned 2001 musical drama Glitter, directed by Vondie Curtis Hall.

2 Which comedian and actor was awarded the Golden Raspberry for Worst Screenplay for his 1989 film Harlem Nights, in which he also starred alongside Richard Pryor?

3 Name the 1998 comedy, directed by David Zucker, which starred South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker.

4 Which 1977 Italian horror film was promoted with the somewhat misjudged tagline, “The OnlyThing More Terrifying than the Last 12 Minutes of this Film are the First 92”?

5 Which actress links the film characters Annie Laird, Erin Grant and Lieutenant Jordan O’Neil?

LFF 1 Gary Oldman’s bleak 1997 directorial debut Nil By Mouth will be screened at this year’s BFI London Film Festival; but who won the Best Actress Award at that year’s Cannes Film Festival for her portrayal of the long-suffering Valerie?

2 Name the winner of the 2013 Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, directed by Abdellatif Kechiche, which will be screened as part of the Love Gala at this year’s Festival.

3 Name the actress who received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Danny DeVito’s 1987 comedy Throw Momma from the Train, which will screen at the Festival; she is also celebrated for her role as Mama Fratelli in 1985’s The Goonies.

4 Name the director of the 1946 French adaptation of Beauty & the Beast, La Belle et la Bête, which will be screened at this year’s Festival to mark the 50th anniversary of the director’s death.

5 Which new Disney film, starring Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson, will close this year’s BFI London Film Festival? ANSWERS

POSTER ROUND: DISASTER FILMS PICTURE ROUND: DICKENS IN FILM 1 The Towering Inferno 1 Derek Jacobi - Little Dorrit 2 The Day After Tomorrow 2 Basil Rathbone - David Copperfield 3 The Impossible 3 Charlie Hunnam - Nicholas Nickleby 4 The Poseidon Adventure 4 Claude Rains - The Mystery of Edwin Drood 5 Armageddon 5 Toby Jones - The Old Curiosity Shop 6 Dante’s Peak 6 Alastair Sim - A Christmas Carol 7 Ladder 49 7 Jason Flemyng - Great Expectations 8 Volcano 8 Elizabeth Allan - A Tale of Two Cities 9 Meteor 9 Ben Kingsley - Oliver Twist 10 Airport ‘77 10 James Hayter - The Pickwick Papers

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE GUILTY PLEASURES 1 WILLIAM WYLER 1 MARIAH CAREY 2 ABBAS KIAROSTAMI 2 EDDIE MURPHY 3 GUNS AT BATASI 3 BASEketball 4 HELEN HUNT 4 SUSPIRIA 5 JAWS & THE TOWERING INFERNO 5 DEMI MOORE

LFF 11 JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT LFF 2 2 ONE-EYED JACK 1 KATHY BURKE 3 RALPH FIENNES 2 BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR 412 YEARS A SLAVE 3 ANNE RAMSEY 5 WILLIAM FAULKNER 4 JEAN COCTEAU 5 SAVING MR BANKS

CLAUDE SAUTET 1 A SIMPLE STORY (UN HISTOIRE SIMPLE) 2 ROMY SCHNEIDER 3 A HEART IN WINTER (UN COEUR EN HIVER) 4 EMANNUELLE BEART 5 GOOD MORNING SMILE (BONJOUR SOURIRE)