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BFI Film Quiz – October 2015 BFI Film Quiz – October 2015 General Knowledge 1 Which British actor links the films The Boat that Rocked, Much Ado about Nothing and Wild, Wild West? 2 Which Japanese director of films including Drunken Angel and Seven Samurai was awarded a prestigious BFI Fellowship in 1986? 3 Name the 1941 drama, set in South Wales and directed by Darryl F. Zanuck, which was nominated for ten Academy Awards, winning five. 4 Who won the 1971 BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance as Alex Greville, in John Schlesinger’s Sunday Bloody Sunday? 5 Which big screen adaptation of a Shakespeare play, starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard in the lead roles, was released in the UK earlier this month? London Film Festival 1 Name the film, adapted by Nick Hornby from a Colm Toibin novel and starring Saoirse Ronan, which will be screened at the May Fair Hotel Gala at this year’s BFI London Film Festival. 2 Todd Haynes film Carol, screening at this year’s Festival, is an adaptation of the novel The Price of Salt, by which late American writer? 3 Which satirical film, starring Tom Hiddleston and Siena Miller and based on a 1975 JG Ballard novel, will be screened at this year’s Festival Gala? 4 Who plays the eponymous character Dalton Trumbo, a blacklisted writer during the McCarthy era, in Jay Roach’s film Trumbo, also screening at this year’s festival? 5 Which celebrated American screenwriter wrote the screenplay for Danny Boyle’s film Steve Jobs, which will close this year’s Festival? John Waters 1 Name the 1988 musical comedy, written and directed by John Waters, which has since been adapted into a successful Broadway stage show. 2 Which actor played the protagonist Wade Walker in Waters’ 1990 romantic-musical-comedy Cry-Baby? 3 Steven Dorff plays the eponymous character in which 2000 Waters black comedy, about a group of terrorist filmmakers? 4 Who plays the title character in Waters’ 1998 film Pecker, set in the director’s home town of Baltimore? 5 Name Waters’ most recent film; released in 2004, it stars Tracey Ullman, Johnny Knoxville and Selma Blair and concerns a group of sex addicts. Guilty Pleasures 1 Which 1973 Mike Nichols film was promoted with the extravagant tagline, “Unwittingly, he trained a dolphin to kill the President of the United States”? 2 Which actress links the films Elf, Yes Man and (500) Days of Summer? 3 Which 1991 action comedy, starring Bruce Willis, won that year’s Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Film? 4 Name the director of such 1980s teen films as Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Weird Science. 5 In the Star Wars films, how is Han Solo’s Modified YT-1300 Corellian Freighter Feminist Film 1 Which film, directed by Sarah Gavron and concerning British women’s fight for the right to vote, will open this year’s BFI London Film Festival? 2 Name the director, a leading force of the New German Cinema movement, whose films include Marianne & Julianne and Three Sisters and who often focuses on relationships between women. 3 Which former child star played the role of Mary Clancy in Ida Lupino’s 1966 comedy The Trouble with Angels, about an all-girl Catholic school run by nuns? 4 Which 1983 film, starring Julie Christie, was the debut of director Sally Potter and was notable for being made with an all-female crew? 5 Which 1980 film, starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton, sees three female employees turn the tables on their sexist and egotistical boss? Picture Round – Dickens Poster Round – Zombies 1 Oliver Reed – Oliver! 1 Dawn of the Dead 2 Helena Bonham Carter – Great Expectations 2 Dead Snow 3 Claude Rains – The Mystery of Edwin Drood 3 28 Days Later 4 WC Fields – David Copperfield 4 Zombieland 5 Charlie Hunnam – Nicholas NIckleby 5 White Zombie 6 Derek Jacobi – Little Dorrit 6 Shaun of the Dead 7 Dirk Bogarde – A Tale of Two Cities 7 The Astro Zombies 8 Anthony Newley – The Old Curiosity Shop or Mr 8 Re-Animator Quilp 9 Black Sheep 9 James Hayter – The Pickwick Papers 10 The Evil Dead 10 Michael Caine – A Muppet Christmas Carol General Knowledge Guilty Pleasures 1 KENNETH BRANAGH 1 THE DAY OF THE DOLPHIN 2 AKIRA KUROSAWA 2 ZOOEY DESCHANEL 3 HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY 3 HUDSON HAWK 4 GLENDA JACKSON 4 JOHN HUGHES 5 MACBETH 5 THE MILLENNIUM FALCON London Film Festival 1 BROOKLYN Feminist Film 2 PATRICIA HIGHSMITH 1 SUFFRAGETTE 3 HIGH-RISE 2 MARGARETHE VON TROTTA 4 BRYAN CRANSTON 3 HAYLEY MILLS 5 AARON SORKIN 4 THE GOLD DIGGERS 5 NINE TO FIVE John Waters 1 HAIRSPRAY 2 JOHNNY DEPP 3 CECIL B. DEMENTED 4 EDWARD FURLONG 5 A DIRTY SHAME.
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