BFI Film Quiz - August 2014
QUESTIONS
General Knowledge 1 Name the BAFTA winning star of Tony Richardson’s adaptation of Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey, who died last month. 2Who won the 1953 Academy Award for Best Director, for his film From Here to Eternity? 3 Name the actor, recipient of last year’s BFI Fellowship, who made his big screen debut in the 1948 Terence Young drama, Corridor of Mirrors. 4 James Garner, who also died last month, played Flight Lieutenant Robert Hendley, nicknamed the "Scrounger", in which 1963 war film? 5 Which actress links the films Son of Sinbad, The Man with the Golden Arm and Kiss Me, Stupid?
Teenage Kicks 1 Name the writer, who also directed the 2000 film Almost Famous, whose article for Rolling Stone magazine provided the basis for the 1982 teen flick Fast Times at Ridgemont High. 2 Which titular character was played by Sissy Spacek in an original horror film and was reprised by Chloe Moretz in last year’s remake? 3 Name the Oscar-winning actor who played Gregory Miller in Richard Brooks’s 1955 film Blackboard Jungle. 4 Which writer-director was behind such ‘80s teen classics as Weird Science, Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club? 5 Name the 1983 French film, directed by Maurice Pialat, which documents the sexual awakening of a fifteen-year-old girl named Suzanne.
Road Movies 1 Name the 2014 road movie, starring Guy Pearce as the character Eric, alongside Twilight’s Robert Pattinson, which previewed at the BFI Southbank earlier this month. 2 Who received his first Oscar nomination for his performance as the hard-drinking lawyer George Hanson in the 1969 road movie Easy Rider? 3 Which Mexican actor portrayed Ernesto “Che” Guevara in the 2004 biopic The Motorcycle Diaries, which details the icon’s 1952 journey across South America? 4 Name the 1954 Italian drama, starring Anthony Quinn, in which a strongman buys a girl named Gelsomina from her mother and takes her on the road. 5 Name the director of The Straight Story, a 1999 drama which documents the true story of Alvin Straight’s journey across Iowa and Wisconsin on a ride-on lawnmower.
Guilty Pleasures 1 Which 1999 film was promoted with the tagline “How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways”? 2 Who starred as the superhuman character May Day in the 1985 James Bond film A View to a Kill? 3 Name the director of both the 1984 film Gremlins and its 1990 sequel, Gremlins: The New Batch. 4 Robert Greenwald won the first ever Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director, for his work on which 1980 film, starring Olivia Newton-John? 5 Which actor links the films, The Waterboy, The Wedding Singer and I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry?
Dance in film 1 Name the duo who directed the classic 1961 film of West Side Story, adapted from the Bernstein and Sondheim stage musical of the same name (a point for each). 2 Which actor took on the Kevin Bacon role as Ren McCormack in the 2011 remake of ‘80s dance film Footloose? 3 Name the 1933 film, directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring James Cagney, which features a dazzling display of choreography by the legendary Busby Berkeley. 4 Name the revolutionary choreographer who was the subject of a Wim Wenders’ documentary, released in 2011; she died during filming. 5 Who made his directorial debut with the 2000 film Billy Elliot, which focused on a boy’s love of ballet with the 1984 miner’s strike as a backdrop?
ANSWERS
Picture Round – Female Directors Poster Round – Chinese Cinema
1 Kathryn Bigelow 1 Farewell My Concubine
2 Gurinder Chadha 2 Havoc in Heaven
3 Lone Scherfig 3 The Story of Qiu Ju
4 Leni Riefenstahl 4 The Spring River Flows East
5 Jane Campion 5 Red Sorghum
6 Sofia Coppola 6 Yellow Earth
7 Lisa Cholodenko 7 Hibiscus Town
8 Debra Granik 8 Raise the Red Lantern
9 Sam Taylor Wood 9 Spring in a Small Town
10 Moira Armstrong 10 House of Flying Daggers
General Knowledge Road Movies Dance in film
1 DORA BRYAN 1 THE ROVER 1 ROBERT WISE & JEROME ROBBINS
2 FRED ZIMMERMANN 2 JACK NICHOLSON 2 KENNY WORMALD
3 CHRISTOPHER LEE 3 GAEL GARCIA BERNAL 3 FOOTLIGHT PARADE 4 THE GREAT ESCAPE 4 LA STRADA 4 PINA BAUSCH 5 KIM NOVAK 5 DAVID LYNCH 5 STEPHEN DALDRY
Teenage Kicks Guilty Pleasures 1 CAMERON CROWE 1 TEN THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU 2 CARRIE 2 GRACE JONES 3 SIDNEY POITIER 3 JOE DANTE 4 JOHN HUGHES
5 TO OUR LOVES 4 XANADU