BFI Film Quiz - July 2014 - QUESTIONS
General Knowledge
1 Name the actor, late as of last month, who starred in films including Baby Doll and the Magnificent Seven.
2 Jonathan Demme, who won the Academy Award for Best Director for The Silence of the Lambs, also directed the 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense, which focused on which New York band?
3 Dwayne Johnson, formerly known as The Rock, will play the titular character in which upcoming graphic novel adaptation, directed by Brett Ratner?
4 Name the director, best known in the West for his 1985 film Come & See, who became the only Russian recipient of a BFI Fellowship, in 1987.
5 Which actress links the films Splendor in the Grass, Sex & the Single Girl and Brainstorm?
Dennis Hopper
1 Dennis Hopper made his first major big screen appearance as the character Goon, in which 1955 Nicholas Ray drama?
2 Hopper was married and divorced five times, but can you name the stage, film and television actress who was his first wife, between 1961 and 1969?
3 Who directed the 1956 film Giant, in which Hopper appeared alongside James Dean, who encouraged him to explore both photography and method acting?
4 Name the 1961 thriller, directed by Curtis Harrington and starring Hopper as Johnny Drake, which was described on its promotional poster as “eerie, strange, macabre”?
5 Hopper made his final directorial effort with which 1994 comedy, starring Tom Berenger alongside Baywatch's Erika Eleniak?
Football Films!
1 Name the multi-award winning 2003 film, directed by Sonke Wortmann, which dramatises West Germany's 1954 World Cup win and its effect on post-war German national confidence.
2 Which Glaswegian band provided the soundtrack to the film Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, which follows the French World Cup winning captain through 90 minutes of a game for his then club Real Madrid?
3 In 2009, the drama The Damned United starred Michael Sheen as the legendary football manager Brian Clough; but who wrote the novel upon which the film was based?
4 Which Yorkshire actor fulfilled a dream by playing a successful Sheffield United player in the risible 1996 British film When Saturday Comes?
5 Name the much derided film, released in the lead up to this year's World Cup, in which Tim Roth gives a somewhat flattering portrayal of FIFA chief Sepp Blatter.
Guilty Pleasures
1 Which franchise reboot, released next month, will star Pete Ploszek, Noel Fisher, Alan Ritchson and Jeremy Howard as the eponymous characters?
2 Which 1980 comedy was promoted with the tagline “Thank God it’s only a motion picture”?
3 Name the actor who links the films Mallrats, Alvin & the Chipmunks and The Incredibles.
4 Which 1980 musical, which starred Steve Guttenberg alongside The Village People, is notorious for being the first ever winner of the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Film?
5 Which BBC comedy adaptation, starring its creator, Brendan O’Carroll, was released just three weeks ago?
London Indian Film Festival
1 Which film, starring Gillian Anderson alongside Niyar Saikia and based on Patricia McCormick’s best-selling novel, will open this year’s London Indian Film Festival?
2 Name the acclaimed Indian actor who links Life of Pi, Lunchbox and Qissa: The Tale of a Lonely Ghost.
3 Name the film premiering at the BFI this month, which follows a film student’s search for the actor who played the little boy in Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali.
4 Which British-Indian comedienne and writer wrote the screenplay for Gurinder Chadha’s first major hit, Bhaji on the Beach?
5 Name the Bengali director, screenwriter and actor, whose work often deals with issues of sexuality, and who has been behind such Indian films as Ushnatar Janye and Arekti Premer Golpo.
ANSWERS
Picture Round - Child Stars Poster Round - Dance in Film
1 Nicholas Hoult - About A Boy 1 Pina
2 Hayley Mills - The Parent Trap 2 Blood Wedding
3 Linda Blair - The Exorcist 3 Flashdance
4 Christian Bale - Empire of the Sun 4 West Side Story
5 Drew Barrymore - ET 5 Strictly Ballroom
6 Shirley Temple - The Little Princess 6 Footlight Parade
7 Christina Ricci - The Addams Family 7 Swing Time
8 Natalie Portman - Leon 8 Footloose
9 Mischa Barton - Lawn Dogs 9 Sweet Charity
10 Mark Lester - Oliver! 10 Step Up
General Knowledge Football Films! London Indian Film Festival
1 ELI WALLACH 1 THE MIRACLE OF BERN 1 LOST
2 TALKING HEADS 2 MOGWAI 2 IRRFAN KHAN
3 HERCULES 3 DAVID PEACE 3 APUR PANCHALI
4 ELEM KLIMOV 4 SEAN BEAN 4 MEERA SYAL
5 NATALIE WOOD 5 UNITED PASSIONS 5 KAUSHIK GANGULY
Dennis Hopper Guilty Pleasures
1 REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE 1 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES
2 BROOKE HAYWARD 2 AIRPLANE!
3 GEORGE STEVENS 3 JASON LEE
4 NIGHT TIDE 4 CAN’T STOP THE MUSIC
5 CHASERS 5 MRS BROWN’S BOYS (D’MOVIE)