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BFI FILM QUIZ - MARCH 2013

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 1 Name the Swedish/British film which won the Best Documentary Feature Award at last month’s Academy Awards.

2 Which 1939 film was promoted with the simple tagline, “Garbo Laughs!”?

3 Which Devon-born actor stars as the enigmatic Uncle Charlie in the recently released Park-Chan Wook film Stoker, having previously made appearances in films including Watchmen and A Single Man?

4 Which 1967 film, with a screenplay by Shelagh Delaney, marked the first credited big screen appearance by Liza Minnelli, as well as Albert Finney’s directorial debut?

5 Daniel Day-Lewis last month won a record third Best Actor Oscar for his performance in ’s Lincoln; but who directed My Left Foot, the film for which he won his first?

THE WIZARD OF OZ 1 Which 1978 musical is an adaptation of Frank L. Baum’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz with an entirely African American cast, including Michael Jackson as The Scarecrow?

2 The most famous adaptation of Baum’s novel is undoubtedly The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland. It won a Best Film nomination at the 1939 Oscars, but lost to Gone with the Wind; but can you name the man who directed BOTH films?

3 Name the 1985 film, intended as a sequel to the 1939 version, in which Dorothy encounters characters including the robot man Tik-Tok , Jack Pumpkinhead and his creator, Princess Ozma.

4 In the 2005 film The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz, which three Muppets play the following characters: The Scarecrow, The Tin Man and The Cowardly Lion (a point for each)?

5 In the newly released prequel, Oz the Great and Powerful, James Franco portrays the Wizard himself. But which two actresses play the Wicked Witches of the East and West (a point for each)?

CENSORED FILMS 1 Which director’s final feature film, Salo, was rejected by the British Board of Film Certification upon its release in January 1976, due to its graphic scenes of sexual violence; it wasn’t passed for distribution uncut until 2000?

2 Which 2011 sequel was initially banned in the UK, and only passed with an 18 certificate after 32 separate cuts to the original film were made? 3 Who stars as Melville Farr in the 1961 film Victim, which was initially banned in the United States due to it being the first English language film to use the word “homosexual”?

4 There was controversy in 1999 when ITV screened a censored version of which classic 1955 British war film, removing all uses of the N-word, which in the film is the name of the unit’s mascot, a black Labrador?

5 Which 1989 film was censored or banned in numerous countries for many years due to accusations of blasphemy, and remains banned in countries including Chile, the Philippines and Singapore?

GUILTY PLEASURES 1 Which successful singer/songwriter became the inaugural winner of the Golden Raspberry for Worst Actor, for his performance in the 1980 remake of The Jazz Singer?

2 is currently the toast of Hollywood for his film Argo, but name the 2003 romantic comedy in which he delivered the much-mocked line: “It’s turkey time – gobble, gobble.”

3 Which actor links the films Lethal Weapon, Under Siege and Drop Zone; he had previously received a Best Actor Oscar nomination for The Buddy Holly Story?

4 Name the 1977 Michael Winner horror which was particularly controversial due to the director’s use of circus freaks and actually disfigured people to play demons at the film’s climax?

5 The franchise will be rebooted this summer with the release of Man of Steel; but which British actor will play the eponymous character?

LONDON LESBIAN & GAY FILM FESTIVAL 1 Name the director who showed his film Vito, about the life of Vito Russell, at last year’s LLGFF festival and who will open this year’s Festival with his latest film, I Am .

2 Which filmmaker – whose final film consisted of the screen being filled with the colour blue accompanied by a Brian Eno soundtrack - has been called the ‘godfather of New Queer Cinema’?

3 The 2012 film Jack and Diane, which stars Julien Temple’s daughter Juno, will be a hot ticket at the Festival. But which pop superstar also makes an unexpected appearance?

4 Name the Joe Balass documentary, which follows The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group founded in San Francisco in the 1970s with a mission to ‘spread omniversal joy, expiate stigmatic guilt and serve their communities’, which will be screened at the LLGFF this year.

5 Which Hollywood actress, and darling of the New Queer Cinema scene, connects films by , Tom Kalin, Todd Haynes and Lisa Cholodenko?

ANSWERS

POSTER ROUND: FORTHCOMING ATTRACTIONS 1 Star Trek: Into Darkness 2 Springbreakers 3 Pain & Gain 4 42 5 The Host 6 Olympus Has Fallen 7 Trance 8 Evil Dead 9 10 Iron Man 3

PICTURE ROUND: OSCAR NIGHT DRESSES 1 2 3 ADELE 4 JENNIFER HUDSON 5 HELEN HUNT 6 7 JENNIFER GARNER 8 ANNE HATHAWAY 9 10 NAOMI WATTS

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 1 SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN 2 NINOTCHKA 3 MATTHEW GOODE 4 CHARLIE BUBBLES 5 JIM SHERIDAN

THE WIZARD OF OZ 1 THE WIZ 2 VICTOR FLEMING 3 RETURN TO OZ 4 KERMIT (SCARECROW), GONZO (TIN MAN), FOZZIE BEAR (COWARDLY LION) 5 RACHEL WEISZ & MILA KUNI

CENSORED FILMS 1 PIER PAOLO PASOLINI 2 THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2 (FULL SEQUENCE) 3 DIRK BOGARDE 4 THE DAM BUSTERS 5 THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST

GUILTY PLEASURES 1 NEIL DIAMOND 2 3 GARY BUSEY 4 THE SENTINEL 5

LLGFF 1 JEFFREY SCHWARZ 2 DEREK JARMAN 3 KYLIE MINOGUE 4 JOY! 5 JULIANNE MOORE