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BFI Film Quiz: October 2014 Questions

General Knowledge 1 Name the legendary director of films including Oklahoma!, High Noon and From Here to Eternity. 2 Name the -directed thriller, which stars Jeremy Renner and among others, which is due to be released on Friday. 3 What was the last film to win the Oscar for Best Picture without its director receiving a Best Director nomi- nation? 4 Which actress links the films Body Double, The Bonfire of the Vanities and Working Girl? 5 Which 1929 Alfred Hitchcock drama began as a silent film, but was converted to sound during production; a silent version still exists in the BFI collection.

London Film Festival – Part One 1 Name the upcoming First World War drama based upon Vera Brittain’s memoir and directed by James Kent which will have its premiere at the The Centrepiece Gala at this year’s LFF 2 Name the director of the film Foxcatcher, which will play at the London Film Festival, who won the Best Director award earlier this year at the Cannes Film Festival. 3 The 2014 British-American historical thriller The Imitation Game, focuses on which pioneering scientist and mathematician who was key to breaking the Enigma code during World War II, but who was later crimi- nally prosecuted for his homosexuality? 4 Name the film, an adaptation of a Gustave Flaubert novel, starring Mia asikowskaW and , 5 Who wrote the screenplay for the upcoming film Wild, starring Reese Witherspoon, which is based upon Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, written by Cheryl Strayed?

Horror 1 What was the name of the Killer clown in Stephen King’s IT? 2 Name the director of Suspiria, Tenebrae and Inferno? 3 Which satirical splatterfest features a zombie epidemic that originates with the bite of a Sumatran Rat- Monkey? 4 Which 1980s sci-fi horror was promoted with the tagline, “Be afraid. Be very afraid”? 5 Linda Blair received an Oscar nomination for portraying a possessed child in William Friedkin’s The Exor- cist, but which actress actually provided the voice of the demon that possessed her and reportedly gurgle a mixture of mushy apple and raw egg to produce the sound effect of projectile vomiting? Guilty Pleasures 1 Who directed the 2004 franchise-combining film Alien vs Predator, which starred Lance Henrikson along- side the monsters? 2 Who played the female lead in the 1982 sequel to the classic musical Grease? 3 Name the 2011 film, starring , which earned the Worst Film Award at the Razzies, as well as awards for Worst Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Director, Screen Couple, Ensem- ble, Rip-off and Screenplay. 4 Robert McIlhinney, a Pennsylvania screenwriter, sued M. Night Shyamalan in 2003, alleging the similarity of his unpublished script Lord of the Barrens: The Jersey Devil, to which Shyamalan film? 5 Which actor links the films The Whole Nine yards, its sequel The Whole Ten Yards and the 2009 body- swap comedy 17 Again?

London Film Festival - Part Two 1 Name the writer behind the novel Serena, the filmic version of which is to screen at this year’s London Film Festival and which stars and as newlyweds running a timber busi- ness in 1930s North Carolina. 2 Who stars as the lead character Bob Saginowsky in the 2014 crime drama The Drop, directed by Michael Roskam and screening at the upcoming LFF? 3 Name the World War II-based film starring , Jason Isaacs and Shia Lebouef, and directed by David Ayer, which will be shown at this year’s LFF. 4 What is the title of the Michael Winterbottom directed film which will preview at the Festival, which looks at the circumstances around the murder of the British student Meredith Kircher in Italy, in 2007? 5 Name the director of Mr Turner, a bio-pic showing at the LFF which stars as the great artist JMW Turner, who essentially invented impressionist painting with works such as “Rain, Steam and Speed”. ANSWERS

Poster Round – Film Noir Picture Round – Film Witches 1 Double Indemnity 1 Bellatrix Lestrange - Harry Potter & the Order 2 Gilda of the Phoenix 3 In a Lonely Place 2 Asa Vajda - Black Sunday 4 The Big Heat 3 The Wicked Witch of the West - The Wizard of 5 Out of the Past Oz 6 Sunset Boulevard 4 Mater Suspiriorum, The Mother of Sighs – 7 Stranger on the Third Floor Suspiria 8 Murder My Sweet 5 Muriel - Hansel & Gretel Witch Hunters 9 The Stranger 6 The Grand High Witch - The Witches 10 The Postman Always Rings Twice 7 Jennifer - I Married a Witch 8 Jane, Alexandra and Sukie - The Witches of Eastwick General Knowledge 1 FRED ZINNEMANN 9 Winifred – Hocus Pocus 2 KILL THE MESSENGER 10 Queen Grimhilde - Snow White & the Seven 3 ARGO Dwarves 4 MELANIE GRIFFITH 5 BLACKMAIL Guilty Pleasures 1 PAUL W.S. ANDERSON 2 MICHELLE PFEIFFER London Film Festival – Part One 1 TESTAMENT OF YOUTH 3 JACK & JILL 2 BENNETT MILLER 4 SIGNS 3 ALAN TURING 5 MATTHEW PERRY 4 MADAME BOVARY 5 NICK HORNBY London Film Festival - Part Two 1 RON RASH 2 TOM HARDY Horror 1 PENNYWISE 3 FURY 2 Dario Argento 4 FACE OF AN ANGEL 3 BAINDEAD 5 MIKE LEIGH 4 THE FLY 5 Mercedes McCambridge