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BFI Film Quiz – July 2015

General Knowledge 1 Which actress links the films The Bad Sister, Jezebel and All about Eve?

2 Name the 1966 British biographical drama film, directed by Fred Zinneman, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

3 In the 1988 film Burning, portrayed the FBI agent Rupert Anderson; but who played his partner, Alan Ward?

4 Which 1940 Disney feature film consists of eight animated segments, set to pieces of classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski?

5 Which British film critic, born in Liverpool, received a prestigious BFI Fellowship in 2013, coinciding with both his retirement and his 80th birthday?

Orson Welles 1 Until his 1970 Honorary Award, had only won one Oscar in his lifetime, that being the Best Writing (Original Screenplay) Award for which 1941 film?

2 Welles played the character Harry Lime in the 1949 film The Third Man, based on the book by which British novelist?

3 In which 1942 feature, adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Booth Tarkington and directed by Welles, does he act as the film’s narrator?

4 Famously, Welles conceived a film which would be a portrait of a carnival, a tale of a boy and his bull and a sequence about four resilient fishermen, set in Brazil. The project was aborted, but name the documentary film which follows Welles’ ambitions.

5 Name the actor who appeared in numerous Welles productions, including co-writing and taking the lead role in 1943’s Journey into Fear.

Documentaries 1 Name the 1922 documentary, directed by Robert Flaherty, which aimed to record everyday Inuit life in the inhospitable surrounds of the Arctic.

2 Name the director of music documentaries including Don’t Look Back, a record of Bob Dylan’s 1965 UK tour, and David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

3 Which 2014 documentary film, directed by Laura Poitras and concerning Edward Snowden and the NSA spying scandal, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary? 4 Name the 1929 documentary, directed by Dziga Vertov, which was met with bewilderment on its release but is now recognised as one of the most radical films of Soviet cinema, and a major influence on Godard, Marker and others.

5 Which 2010 American documentary, written and directed by Josh Fox, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2011, and focuses on communities in the United States affected by natural gas drilling and, specifically, ‘fracking’?

Guilty Pleasures 1 Name the director of the upcoming superhero film, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

2 Which actor links the films Knocked Up, This is 40 and Ant-Man?

3 The song “Everything is Awesome” was the theme to which successful 2014 animated comedy?

4 Which film was promoted with the tagline, “The man with the hat is back, and this time he’s bringing his dad”?

5 Who directed the notoriously bad 1960 exploitation film The Sinister Urge, his last mainstream picture, which starred the likes of Kenne Duncan, Duke Moore and Carl Anthony?

London in Film 1 Name the 1928 drama, set on the Tube and directed by Anthony Asquith, which focuses on a love story involving the actors Elissa Landi and Brian Aherne.

2 Who directed the classic 1966 record of swinging London, Blow-Up, which starred the likes of , Peter Bowles and Jane Birkin?

3 Who played the lead character of Superintendent Newhouse in the 1965 London-based thriller, Bunny Lake is Missing?

4 ’s penultimate film saw him return to London, the city of his birth. Name the 1972 film set in an old Covent Garden overrun with fruit, veg and murder.

5 Name the director of 1970’s Performance, a disturbing study of identity played out between a sadistic gang- ster and a rock star, played by Mick Jagger, in the latter’s Notting Hill home. Picture Round – Mafiosi Poster Round – Spaghetti Westerns 1 – Donnie Brasco 1 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 2 James Woods – Once Upon a Time in America 2 A Bullet for the General 3 Christopher Lambert – The Sicilian 3 Django 4 Kirk Douglas – The Brotherhood 4 Navajo Joe 5 Chazz Palminteri - 5 The Big Gundown 6 Christopher Walken - King of 6 For a Few Dollars More 7 - Mean Streets 7 Duck, You Sucker 8 - The Don is Dead 8 Tepepa 9 - The Family 9 Death Rides a Horse 10 – 10 A Fistful of Dollars

Guilty Pleasures General Knowledge 1 ZACK SNYDER 1 BETTE DAVIS 2 2 A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS 3 THE LEGO MOVIE 3 4 JONES & THE LAST CRUSADE 4 FANTASIA 5 ED WOOD 5 PHILIP FRENCH

London in Film 1 UNDERGROUND Orson Welles 2 MICHELANGELO ANTONIOLI 1 INGRID BERGMAN 3 2 JOEL & ETHAN COEN 4 FRENZY 3 1955 5 NICOLAS ROEG 4 A PROPHET 5 GUS VAN SANT

Documentaries 1 NANOOK OF THE NORTH 2 D.A. PENNEBAKER 3 CITIZENFOUR 4 MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA 5 GASLAND