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BFI FILM QUIZ: JULY 2016

PICTURE ROUND: POSTER ROUND: 1 - The Detective 2 - Murder on the Orient 1. DUEL Express 2. ALWAYS 3 – Chinatown 3. LINCOLN 4 - 4. THE COLOR PURPLE 5 – Seven 5. THE TERMINAL 6 - Dirty Harry 6. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK 7 Donald Sutherland – Klute 7. ARMISTAD 8 – Zodiac 8. THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS 9 - The Big Sleep 9. EMPIRE OF THE SUN 10 - The French Connection 10. HOOK

General Knowledge

1 Which 1970 biographical , directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, won seven , including Best Picture?

PATTON

2 Name the French actress, singer, screenwriter and director who links the films Jules et Jim and Lift to the Scaffold?

JEANNE MOREAU

3 What is the subtitle to the third instalment of James DeMonaco’s film series , which was released earlier this month?

ELECTION YEAR

4 Which director, who recently won the Palme D’Or for the second time, was awarded a prestigious BFI Fellowship in 1996?

KEN LOACH

5 Which 1982 film, directed by and written by , saw the big screen debut of , then billing himself as Nicolas ?

FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH

Olivia de Havilland

1 celebrated her 100th birthday earlier this month. For which 1946 film did she win the first of her two Academy Awards for Best Actress?

TO EACH HIS OWN

2 de Havilland and her estranged sister are the only siblings to have both won lead acting Academy Awards. Name the sister.

JOAN FONTAINE

3 De Havilland made eight appearances alongside which actor, with whom she starred in films including Captain Blood, Dodge City and The Charge of the Light Brigade?

ERROLL FLYNN

4 In which 1952 gothic romance, directed by , did de Havilland star opposite Burton?

MY COUSIN RACHEL

5 Who directed the 1949 film , in which de Havilland starred alongside Montgomery Clift & and for which she won her second Best Actress Oscar?

WILLIAM WYLER

London Indian Film Festival

1 's largest Asian film festival takes place this month, in the shape of the Indian Film Festival. Which 2016 drama directed by Ketan Mehta and following an inmate of a mental institution who hasn’t slept for 15 years, will close the festival?

TOBA TEK SINGH 2 Name the 1975 Indian action thriller directed by Ramesh Sippy and starring Dharmendra and Amitabh Bachchan, which remains one of the high-grossing Indian films ever and was named by Sight & Sound magazine as the best Indian film of all time?

SHOLAY

3 The 1955 film, Pather Pachali, widely regarded as the forerunner of in Indian cinema, was the directorial debut of which Bengali filmmaker?

SATYAJIT RAY

4 According to Forbes magazine, three of the top ten highest paid actors in the world are Indian actors. One is Amitabh Bachchan (of Sholay, and more recently the Avengers series). Can you name the other two?

SALMAN KHAN + AKSHAY KUMAR

5 Which epic 1957 Hindi-language drama depicts a poverty-stricken village woman struggling to raise her sons and survive against a cunning money-lender, setting a goddess-like moral example of an ideal Indian woman?

MOTHER INDIA

Guilty Pleasures 1 Which actress and comedienne links the films Mean Girls, Date Night and Muppets Most Wanted?

TINA FEY

2 Name the 1996 erotic comedy, starring Demi Moore, which won that year’s Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture.

STRIPTEASE

3 Name the 1955 , directed by Ed Wood, which starred Bela Lugosi, Swedish wrestler Tor Johnson and Loretta King.

BRIDE OF THE MONSTER

4 Which actress appeared as Princess Mindy, Neptune's daughter, in 2004’s SpongeBob SquarePants Movie?

SCARLETT JOHANSSON

5 Name the action actor who wrote, directed, produced, and starred in the Multi-Facial and the feature-length drama film Strays.

VIN DIESEL

Jack Gold

1 Who played the protagonist Jack Morlar in 's classic 1978 film The Medusa Touch?

RICHARD BURTON

2 Name Gold's 1984 property-based comedy drama, which starred the likes of , Billie Whitelaw and .

THE CHAIN

3 Name the 1987 made-for-TV drama starring Rutger Hauer and , which tells the story of a mass escape from a Nazi extermination camp.

ESCAPE FROM SOBIBOR

4 Which Northern Irish character actor starred as Joseph Stalin in Gold's 1983 TV movie Red Monarch?

COLIN BLAKELEY

5 Name Jack Gold's final work, a 1998 TV film adaptation of a book by , with a cast featuring well known British actors including the late .

GOODNIGHT MISTER TOM