BFI Film Quiz – August 2016 QUESTIONS GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 1 Name the Actress and Singer, Who Died Last Month at the Age of 86, W
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BFI Film Quiz – August 2016 QUESTIONS GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 1 Name the actress and singer, who died last month at the age of 86, who provided vocal embellishments for films including My Fair Lady and West Side Story. 2 Which 2016 Chinese–Hong Kong science fantasy romantic comedy film directed and co-written by Stephen Chow recently became the highest grossing Chinese film of all time? 3 Name the director of the 1994 film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, which follows two drag queens played by Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce and a transgender woman, played by Terence Stamp, as they journey across the Australian Outback. 4 Sophia Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1962, becoming the first artist to win an Oscar for a foreign-language performance, for her role in which Vittorio De Sica film? 5 Name the Iranian director of films including The Wind Will Carry Us and Taste of Cherry - which won the Palme D’Or in 1997 - who was awarded a prestigious BFI Fellowship in 2005. ALMODOVAR 1 Almodovar released his first film in 1980, basing it on a comic strip titled General Erections that he had written. What was the film called? 2 Name the film production company that Almodovar formed with his brother Agustin in 1986. It has been responsible for producing all of his films since 1987’s Law of Desire. 3 Which Spanish actor has appeared in seven Alomodovar films, beginning with 1982’s Labyrinth of Passion and also including 1986’s Matador and 1990’s Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!? 4 Almodovar’s 1999 film All About my Mother won him the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film; but for which 2002 film netted him his second Oscar, for Best Original Screenplay? 5 Which 2016 Almodovar film, based on three short stories by Alice Munro, was nominated for the Palme D’or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival? INGRID BERGMAN 1 In which 1939 film did Ingrid Bergman make her Hollywood debut; it was an English language remake of an earlier Swedish film in which Bergman had appeared? 2 Who directed 1942’s Casablanca, in which Bergman played the character Ilsa, perhaps her most iconic performance? 3 Bergman received her first Oscar nomination in 1943 for which film, an adaptation of an Ernest Hemingway novel, which was also her first colour film? 4 Bergman played Sister Mary Benedict in the 1945 drama The Bells of St Mary’s; who starred opposite her as Father Chuck O’Malley? 5 For which 1974 Sidney Lumet film did Bergman win her final Academy Award, for Best Supporting Actress? GUILTY PLEASURES 1 Which actor won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor in 2000, for his performances as both Russ Richards in Lucky Numbers and Teri in Battlefield Earth? 2 Name the 1989 sci-fi sequel that was promoted with the tagline: "Why are they putting seatbelts in theatres this summer?" 3 Which sometime rapper made his acting debut in 1991’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 and last year portrayed Mark Twain in the Adam Sandler vehicle The Ridiculous 6? 4 Name the 1977 American exploitation-horror film written and directed by Wes Craven, which follows a family that is targeted by a family of savages after being stranded in the Nevada desert. 5 Which actress links the films The Back-Up Plan, The Hangover 3 and Bridesmaids? PUNK FILM 1 Which celebrated countercultural figure directed the 1978 film Jubilee, in which many punk stars line up alongside established actors to tell a story in which Queen Elizabeth I of England is seen to be transported forward in time to a desolate and brutal wasteland, ruled by her twentieth century namesake? 2 Julien Temple directed the 1980 Sex Pistols mockumentary, The Great Rock &’n’ Roll Swindle; but can you name his 2000 follow up, which documented the band through the eyes of their members and fans and which takes its name from a front page headline in The Daily Mirror newspaper? 3 The 2013 film, subtitled A Punk Prayer and directed by Mike Lerner & Maxim Pozdorovkin, charts the protest and subsequent prosecution of which Russian, female punk band. 4 Name the bizarre 1986 Western, including participants such as Joe Strummer, Courtney Love, Elvis Costello and Dennis Hopper, which is an homage to both Sergio Leone and the rule-breaking spirit of punk rock and is named after a song by The Clash. 5 Who directed the 1986 biopic Sid & Nancy, in which Gary Oldman depicted the Sex Pistols’ Sid Vicious and his toxic relationship with his girlfriend Nancy Spungen? ANSWERS Poster Round - Musicals Picture Round – Cats in film 1 The Band Wagon 1 Keanu – Keanu 2 Bugsy Malone 2 Thomas O’Malley – The Aristocats 3 Gold Diggers of 1933 3 Church – Pet Sematary 4 Song of Norway 4 DC – That Darn Cat 5 Moulin Rouge 5 Mr Jinx- Meet the Parents 6 Shall We Dance 6 Jonesy – Alien 7 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 7 Jake – The Cat from Outer Space 8 Easter Parade 8 Ulysses – Inside Llewyn Davis 9 The Music Man 9 Cat – Breakfast at Tiffany’s 10 Les Miserables 10 Mr Bigglesworth – Austin Powers GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 1 MARNI NIXON GUILTY PLEASURES 2 THE MERMAID 1 JOHN TRAVOLTA 3 STEPHAN ELLIOTT 2 STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER 4 TWO WOMEN (LA CIOCIARIA) 3 VANILLA ICE 5 ABBAS KIAROSTAMI 4 THE HILLS HAVE EYES 5 MELISSA MCCARTHY ALMODOVAR 1 PEPI, LUCI, BOM PUNK FILM 2 EL DESEO 1 DEREK JARMAN 3 ANTONIO BANDERAS 2 THE FILTH AND THE FURY 4 TALK TO HER 3 PUSSY RIOT 5 JULIETA 4 STRAIGHT TO HELL 5 ALEX COX INGRID BERGMAN 1 INTERMEZZO 2 MICHAEL CURTIZ 3 FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS 4 BING CROSBY 5 MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS .