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BFI Quiz – August 2015

General Knowledge 1 The biographical drama Straight Outta Compton, released this Friday, is an account of the rise and fall of which hip hop act?

2 Only two have ever won both the Palme D’Or at the and the Academy Award for Best Picture. Name them.

3 Which director links the films , Broadcast News & As Good as it Gets, as well as TV show ?

4 Which film won the 1978 BAFTA Award for Best Film, beating fellow nominees , Net- work and A Bridge Too Far?

5 The legendary was awarded a BFI Fellowship in 1991; but which British director of films including Reach for the Sky, Educating Rita and The Spy Who Loved Me was also honoured that year?

Italian Film 1 Name the Italian director of films including 1948’s The and 1961’s .

2 Anna Magnani became the first Italian woman to win the Best Actress Academy Award for her perfor- mance as Serafina in which 1955 adaptation?

3 Name the of Italian horror, popular during the 1960s and ‘70s, which includes films such as Suspiria, Black Sunday and Castle of Blood.

4 Name ’s 1961 debut , which was based on his previous work as a novelist.

5 Who directed and starred in the 1997 Italian film , which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, amongst other honours.

Summer Blockbusters 1 Which blockbuster sequel is the most successful film at the box office so far this year, having grossed over $1.5 billion worldwide?

2 Which English actor plays the character of Ben Grimm, AKA Thing, in the new Fantastic Four movie, which was released on Friday?

3 Name the drama, released later this summer, which stars as the real life criminal Whitey Bulger and as the FBI agent who helped Bulger evade arrest. 4 Which American, previously responsible for films including , & the Chamber of Secrets and Mrs Doubtfire, directed the computer game-inspired comedy Pixels?

5 Name the Judd Apatow-directed , starring and , which gained unwelcome attention last month when a gunman opened fire during a screening in Louisiana.

Guilty Pleasures 1 The tagline, “It happened to someone who knows someone you know – you’re next” was used to promote which 1998 , starring ?

2 Name the director of the big screen adaptation of The Man from UNCLE, released later this month and starring Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer.

3 Name the 1957 British which was Christopher Lee’s first film for Hammer Film Productions and also Hammer’s first colour horror film.

4 Which 1994 erotic , starring Bruce Willis and Jane March, won a Golden Raspberry Award as the worst film of that year, although Maxim magazine also singled it out as having the best sex scene in film history?

5 Which actress links the films , I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scooby Doo?

Venice International Film Festival 1 Founded in 1932, the International Film Festival is the oldest film festival in the world and forms ‘the big three’ with which two other competitions?

2 Name the Mexican director of films such as Children of Men and Gravity, who has been named as President of the Jury for the main competition at this year’s Venice Festival.

3 Name the award presented to the winner of the Best Film category at the .

4 Name the 3D disaster movie, directed by Baltasar Kormákur and starring , and , which will screen out of competition at this year’s festival.

5 Which Italian directed the 1973 comedy-drama , a restored version of which will be screened at this year’s festival? Picture Round – Female Directors Poster Round – Dystopian Cinema 1 1 A Clockwork Orange 2 2 Fahrenheit 451 3 Leni Riefenstahl 3 Brazil 4 4 Equilibrium 5 Gurinder Chadha 5 A Scanner Darkly 6 Claire Denis 6 THX 1138 7 7 Soylent Green 8 8 Children of Men 9 9 12 Monkeys 10 Sofia 10 The 10th Victim

General Knowledge Guilty Pleasures 1 N.W.A. 1 URBAN LEGEND 2 THE LOST WEEKEND & MARTY (Clue: 1945 & 2 1955) 3 THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN 3 JAMES L. BROOKS 4 COLOUR OF NIGHT 4 5 5 LEWIS GILBERT

Italian Cinema Venice International Film Festival 1 1 CANNES & BERLIN 2 THE ROSE TATTOO 2 ALFONSO CUARON 3 3 LEONE D’ORO () 4 ACCATTONE 4 EVEREST 5 5

Summer Blockbusters 1 JURASSIC WORLD 2 JAMIE BELL 3 BLACK MASS 4 CHRIS COLUMBUS 5 TRAINWRECK