SEPTEMBER 2013 QUESTIONS

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 1 Name the film, directed by Paul Greengrass and starring , which will open this year’s BFI Film Festival.

2 Which Oscar winning actor played the character of Ron Jenkins in during the 1960s?

3 Who directed the 1985 comedy-drama , starring Daniel Day-Lewis and written by Hanif Kureishi?

4 For which 1980 film did Mary Tyler-Moore win the Golden Globe for Best Actress, while also being nominated for the same award at both the Oscars and the BAFTAs?

5 Which actor has been named as the new Batman, who is set to battle Superman in the upcoming sequel to Man of Steel?

AUSTRALIAN FILM 1 Who directed the award winning 2002 film Rabbit Proof Fence, which focused on the vexed subject ofAustralian race relations?

2 Name the 2012 film, directed by Wayne Blair, in which a character played by Chris O’Dowd takes an aboriginal girl group on a tour of wartime Vietnam.

3 In Nicolas Roeg’s 1971 film Walkabout, who plays the character known only as ‘the girl’ who becomes stranded in the Australian outback when her father goes beserk?

4 Australian director Baz Luhrmann has directed five feature films to date; but with which 1992 film did he make his big screen directorial debut?

5 Name the Australian documentary maker whose work includes Stealing a Nation, The War on Democracy and Utopia.

SATYAJIT RAY 1 In which Indian city was born in 1921; he also died there in 1992?

2 Ray was the second film personality to be awarded an honorary doctorate by Oxford University; who was the first?

3 Which 1963 film marked the first time that Ray worked with Bengali star Madhabi Mukherjee?

4 Many literary works include references to Ray’s films; but who wrote the children’s book Haroun and the Sea of Stories, which contains fish named Goopy and Bagha, a tribute to characters who appear in several Ray films?

5 Which 1970 film, starring Dhritiman Chatterjee, focuses on the mayhem of the Naxalite movement in Bengal and is considered Ray’s most political work? GUILTY PLEASURES 1 Which actor links the films Coneheads, Airheads and I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry?

2 Which 1997 film was promoted with the tagline, “even a hit man deserves a second shot”?

3 Who directed the 1975 musical comedy At Long Last Love, starring , which received such a nega- tive reception that the director issued a public apology?

4 Which 1970 comedy, based on his novel, did Gore Vidal call “an awful joke” and blame for a decade long drought in sales of the original book?

5 Which actress holds the record for the most Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Actress, having accumulated an impressive five gongs? AUGUST 2013 ANSWERS

PICTURE ROUND: WRITERS IN FILM POST ROUND: POLISH FILM POSTER 1 – 1 Apocalypse Now

2 Gwyneth Paltrow – Sylvia Plath 2 Breakfast at Tiffany’s

3 Jennifer Jason Leigh – Dorothy Parker 3 War Games

4 – JM Barrie 4 Mash

5 – Truman Capote 5 The Getaway

6 Samuel Roache – Samuel Coleridge 6 Return of the Pink Panther

7 – Virginia Woolf 7 The Last Detail

8 Joseph Fiennes – 8 Gremlins

9 Kerry Fox – Janet Frame 9 Weekend at Bernie’s

10 Stephen Fry – Oscar Wilde 10 Terms of Endearment

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE SATYAJIT RAY 1 CAPTAIN PHILLIPS 1 CALCUTTA

2 SIR 2

3 3 THE BIG CITY

4 ORDINARY PEOPLE 4 SALMAN RUSHDIE

5 5 THE ADVERSARY

AUSTRALIAN FILM GUILTY PLEASURES 1 PHILLIP NOYCE 1

2 THE SAPPHIRES 2 GROSSE POINT BLANKE

3 JENNY AGUTTER 3 PETER BOGDANOVICH

4 STRICTLY BALLROOM 4 MYRA BRECKINRIDGE

5 JOHN PILGER 5