BFI Film Quiz - September 2014
QUESTIONS
General Knowledge
1 Name the 1995 film, directed by Agnieszka Holland and based on a 1967 play by Christopher Hampton, in which Leonardo Di Caprio and David Thewlis play the poets and lovers Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine.
2 Who holds the record for most Academy Awards for Best Director, having taken the prize in 1935, 1940, 1941 and 1952?
3 What is the highest grossing film worldwide in 2014 so far; it has pulled in more than a billion dollars, making it the 13th highest earning film of all time?
4 Which actress links the films Belle De Jour, The Hunger and 8 Women?
5 Name the recipient of the 2001 BFI Fellowship who has directed films including Reach for the Sky, Alfie & Educating Rita.
Robin Williams
1 Name the American actress who portrayed Mindy, opposite Robin Williams, in the sitcom Mork & Mindy, which debuted in 1978.
2 In which 1982 adaptation of a John Irving novel, directed by George Roy Hill did Williams star as the title character?
3 Williams appeared in the music video for which 1988 Bobby McFerrin hit single, which also featured on the soundtrack of the film Cocktail?
4 Name the real-life US “shock jock” that was portrayed by Williams in the 1987 film Good Morning, Vietnam, for which he earned an Oscar nomination as Best Actor.
5 For which 1997 Gus Van Sant drama did Robin Williams win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for his performance as the therapist Dr. Sean Maguire?
Jim Jarmusch
1 Name Jim Jarmusch’s film debut, shot shortly after he dropped out of film school and the winner of the Josef von Sternberg Award at the 1980 Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival.
2 Which future Best Actor Oscar-winner starred alongside Tom Waits in Jarmusch’s 1986 jailbreak film Down By Law?
3 Winner of the Camera D’Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, and considered a landmark in independent cinema, which Jarmusch film starred jazz musician John Lurie and former Sonic Youth drummer-turned-actor Richard Edson?
4 Jarmusch wrote and directed which 1991 vignette film about taxi drivers in locations including Paris, Rome, LA and Helsinki; stars included Winona Ryder and Beatrice Dalle?
5 Only Lovers Left Alive, finally released in February this year after a seven year gestation process, starred which British actor as the vampire Adam; he replaced the originally cast Michael Fassbender in the role.
Guilty Pleasures
1 Which actor links the films Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and Zoolander?
2 Which 1948 film, which featured an early appearance by Carry On staple Sid James, was described by the British film journal Monthly Film Bulletin as "the most sickening exhibition of brutality, perversion, sex and sadism ever to be shown on a cinema screen"?
3 Who played Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm Street films on numerous occasions from 1984 onwards?
4 Which 1994 erotic mystery, starring Bruce Willis and Laura March, won the Golden Raspberry Award as the worst film of that year?
5 Which New York-born director was responsible for several much maligned films, including Glen or Glenda, Bride of the Monster and Night of the Ghouls?
Peter Lorre
1 Name the 1931 German drama in which Peter Lorre portrayed a serial killer; it was director Fritz Lang’s first sound film and a clip was later used in the Nazi propaganda film The Eternal Jew.
2 Lorre became the first actor to portray a Bond villain – the sinister Le Chiffre – in the 1954 television adaptation of which Ian Fleming novel?
3 Who directed the 1942 classic Casablanca, in which Lorre played the petty crook Signor Ugarte?
4 Which British-born actor appeared alongside Lorre in nine films, beginning with 1941’s The Maltese Falcon, though his movie career ended after just eight years?
5 Often typecast as a villain, one of Lorre’s finest performances was as just such a character in which 1934 Alfred Hitchcock film, in which he played the assassin Abbott; Hitchcock later remade the film with James Stewart and Doris Day. ANSWERS
Picture Round – Mafia Poster Round – Disney Films
1 Robert Duvall – The Godfather 1 The Little Mermaid
2 Anthony Quinn – The Don is Dead 2 Mulan
3 Chazz Palminteri – A Bronx Tale 3 John Carter
4 Johnny Depp – Donnie Brasco 4 Lilo & Stitch
5 Lee J Cobb – On the Waterfront 5 The Lion King
6 Alec Baldwin – Married to the Mob 6 Pocahontas
7 Paul Newman – Road to Perdition 7 Chicken Little
8 Christopher Lambert – The Sicilian 8 Anastasia (BONUS: NOT a Disney – often mistaken!)
9 Kirk Douglas – The Brotherhood 9 Beauty & the Beast
10 Robert De Niro – The Untouchables 10 Frozen
General Knowledge Guilty Pleasures Jim Jarmusch
1 TOTAL ECLIPSE 1 WILL FERRELL 1 PERMANENT VACATION
2 JOHN FORD 2 NO ORCHIDS FOR MISS BLANDISH 2 ROBERTO BENIGNI
3 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION 3 ROBERT ENGLUND 3 STRANGER THAN PARADISE
4 CATHERINE DENEUVE 4 COLOR OF NIGHT 4 NIGHT ON EARTH
5 LEWIS GILBERT 5 ED WOOD 5. TOM HIDDLESTON
Robin Williams Peter Lorre
1 PAM DAWBER 1 M
2 THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP 2 CASINO ROYALE
3 DON’T WORRY BE HAPPY 3 MICHAEL CURTIZ
4 ADRIAN CRONAUER 4 SYDNEY GREENSTREET
5 GOOD WILL HUNTING 5 THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH