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
5 MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS