BFI Film Quiz – September 2015

General Knowledge 1 Name the 1950 American drama film which remains the only recipient of four female acting Oscar nominations: two for Best Actress and two for Best Supporting Actress.

2 Which actor links the films The Big Chill, Chaplin and French Kiss?

3 So far in 2015, Universal has become the first studio to have three films grossing $1billion dollars or more worldwide in a single year. Name the films.

4 Which director of films such as Adventures of a Dentist and Come & See, is the only Russian to have received a prestigious BFI Fellowship to date, being so honoured in 1987?

5 The 1986 French period drama Jean de Florette was nominated for ten BAFTA Awards, winning four, including Best Film. But who portrayed the film’s eponymous hero?

Taiwanese Cinema 1 For which martial arts film, set in the ninth century, did Hou Hsiao-Hsien win the Best Director Award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival?

2 Hou is also an acclaimed actor, appearing in several films including the lead role in 1984’s Taipei Story, directed by which fellow Taiwanese filmmaker?

3 Which other 1984 film is the first in Hou’s coming-of-age trilogy, followed by The Time to Love and the Time to Die and Dust in the Wind? The film was named in Asia Weekly’s “100 Greatest Chinese Films of the 20th Century”.

4 Winner of the Jury Prize at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, which Hou film is based on the memoirs of Li Tian-lu, and was voted by Sight & Sound magazine as one of the greatest films ever made?

5 Which 1989 film, directed by Hou and dealing with the so-called White Terror inflicted on the Taiwanese people in the 1940s, won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival?

Wes Craven 1 Wes Craven’s feature debut as a director was the 1972 exploitation-horror The Last House on the Left, -in spired by which 1960 Ingmar Bergman film?

2 Perhaps Craven’s most famous creation is Freddy Kreuger, villain of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. Which actor portrayed Freddy in the original 1984 film and its numerous sequels? 3 Which other iconic horror character of featured opposite Craven’s antihero Freddie Kruger in a 2003 crossover of two major horror franchises?

4 Which 1999 drama, starring Meryl Streep and a departure from Craven’s standard horror genre, was also his only film to receive an Academy Award nomination?

5 Name the writer and co-creator - along with Craven - of the Scream franchise, which satirised Craven’s earlier work.

Guilty Pleasures 1 Which 1998 film was promoted with the tagline, “When he pours, he reigns?”

2 27-year-old Steve McQueen made his leading-man debut playing a teenager, in which 1958 sci-fi horror?

3 Who or what is the only inanimate object to have won the Golden Raspberry Awards’ Worst Career Achievement Prize?

4 Name the 1968 French-Italian romantic drama, which stars Faye Dunaway as a terminally ill American fashion designer in Italy who has a whirlwind affair with a racing driver. Critic Roger Ebert described the film as, “the most godawful piece of pseudo-romantic slop I’ve ever seen!”

5 Which actress links the films Black Christmas, The Amityville Horror and Superman?

Truman Capotel 1 What was the title of Truman Capote’s 1948 debut novel, adapted for the screen in 1995 by director David Rocksavage, otherwise known as The Marquess of Cholmondeley?

2 Name the 1958 film, based on a Capote novel, which saw Audrey Hepburn take her defining role as Holly Golightly.

3 Who directed the classic 1967 film adaptation of Capote’s true crime novel In Cold Blood?

4 Capote appeared, uncredited, as “The Winner of the Truman Capote Look-Alike Contest” in which 1977 romantic comedy?

5 Name the 1976 mystery-comedy in which Capote made his most acclaimed acting performance, garnering him a Golden Globe Award for Best Acting Debut in a Motion Picture. Picture Round – Cars Poster Round – Kitchen Sink Dramas 1 Back to the Future 1 Billy Liar 2 The Spy Who Loved Me 2 Poor Cow 3 Christine 3 Look Back in Anger 4 Batman vs Superman 4 A Taste of Honey 5 Gone in 60 Seconds 5 Spring & Port Wine 6 Ghostbusters 6 Up the Junction 7 Bullitt 7 The Leather Boys 8 Thelma & Louise 8 A Kind of Loving 9 Transformers 9 Room at the Top 10 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 10 Kes

General Knowledge Guilty Pleasures 1 ALL ABOUT EVE 1 COCKTAIL 2 KEVIN KLINE 2 THE BLOB 3 JURASSIC WORLD, FURIOUS 7 & MINIONS 3 BRUCE, THE RUBBER SHARK FROM JAWS 4 ELEM KLIMOV 4 A PLACE FOR LOVERS 5 GERARD DEPARDIEU 5 MARGOT KIDDER

Taiwanese Cinema 1 THE ASSASSIN Truman Capote 2 EDWARD YANG 1 OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS 3 A SUMMER AT GRANDPA’S 2 BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S 4 THE PUPPETMASTER 3 RICHARD BROOKS 5 A CITY OF SADNESS 4 ANNIE HALL 5 MURDER BY DEATH

Wes Craven 1 THE VIRGIN SPRING 2 ROBERT ENGLUND 3 JASON VOORHEES 4 MUSIC OF THE HEART 5 KEVIN WILLIAMSON