BFI Film Quiz – April 2015 General Knowledge 1 Name the US writer, actor and director who was presented with a prestigious BFI Fellowship earlier this year; his works include The Twelve Chairs and High Anxiety. 2 Which British director links the films Green Zone, Captain Phillips and Bloody Sunday? 3 Name the 1952 drama, directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Charlton Heston, that won the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Story and was also nominated for a further three awards. 4 Name the 2015 spy-action-comedy, directed by Matthew Vaughn and starring Colin Firth, which is one of the highest grossing films worldwide so far this year. 5 Which 1957 film, starring Henry Fonda, was promoted with the tagline, “Life is in their hands; death is on their minds”? Cannes Film Festival 2015 1 Which iconic actress appeared on the poster for the 2015 Cannes Film Festival? 2 For the first time, a pair of brothers presided over this year’s Cannes Feature Film Jury. Name them. 3 In what year was the Palme d’Or created, replacing the Grand Prix du Festival which had been awarded until that year? 4 This year the French director Jacques Audiard’s film Dheepan won the Palme d’Or. Which of Audiard’s films which premiered at Cannes in 2009, winning the Grand Prix? 5 And which director received widespread criticism from a vocal Cannes audience, for a sentimental film about two suicidal men wandering in a forest, starring Matthew McConaughey and Ken Watanabe? Noel Coward 1 Name the imprisoned criminal mastermind played by Noel Coward in the classic 1969 film The Italian Job. 2 Which play, filmed for television in 1964, focuses on sexual vanity and drug abuse among the upper classes and was Coward’s first great commercial success? 3 Name the 1933 film adaptation of a Coward play which starred Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins and Fredric March. 4 Which French actor played the lead, alongside Joan Collins and Susannah York, in the 1974 TV adaptation of Coward’s Fallen Angels? 5 Who directed the 1959 film adaptation of Graham Greene’s Our Man in Havana, in which Coward starred alongside the likes of Alec Guinness, Ralph Richardson and Maureen O’Hara? Guilty Pleasures 1 Which actress links the films Knocked Up, Whip It and Bridesmaids? 2 Name the 1991 action-comedy, starring Bruce Willis in the title role, which won that year’s Golden Rasp- berry Award for Worst Picture. 3 Name the 1969 British horror film, directed by Gordon Hessler and based on an Edgar Allan Poe story, which was the first to star Vincent Price alongside Christopher Lee. 4 Which actor directed himself in the much criticised 1989 sci-fi sequel Star Trek V: The Final Frontier? 5 Which actress played the title role in the 1996 adaptation of the Dark Horse comic book series Barb Wire, directed by David Hogan? Southern Gothic 1 Name the 1949 film, directed by Clarence Brown, which stars Juano Hernandez as a black farmer falsely accused of murder. 2 Who directed the 1960 adaptation of The Fugitive Kind, based on Tennessee Williams’ Orpheus Descend- ing, which stars Marlon Brando as the drifter Val Xavier? 3 Gregory Peck plays Atticus Finch in Robert Mulligan’s 1962 adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, but who wrote the original novel upon which the film is based? 4 Name the rarely screened 1960 film, directed by Luis Bunuel, which stars Bernie Hamilton as Traver, a black man on the run from a lynching. 5 Which British actor plays the slave owner Warren Maxwell in Richard Fleischer’s controversial 1975 film Mandingo? Picture Round – British Prime Ministers Poster Round – Polish Film Posters 1 Roger Parrott - Neville Chamberlain - The King’s 1 A Christmas Carol / Scrooge Speech 2 Far From the Madding Crowd 2 Michael Sheen - Tony Blair - The Queen 3 Dracula 3 Clive Merrison - Clement Atlee - Bert & Dickie 4 The Mill on the Floss 4 Brendan Gleeson - Winston Churchill - Into the Storm 5 The Picture of Dorian Grey 5 George Arliss - Benjamin Disraeli - Disraeli 6 Vanity Fair 6 Julian Glover - Duke of Wellington - The Young 7 Frankenstein Victoria 8 Jane Eyre 7 Norman Page - David Lloyd Geroge - The Life Story of 9 The Time Machine David Lloyd George 10 Sense & Sensibility 8 David Morrissey - Gordon Brown - The Deal 9 James Bolam - Harold Wilson - The Plot against Harold Wilson Guilty Pleasures 10 Meryl Streep - Margaret Thatcher - The Iron Lady 1 KRISTEN WIIG 2 HUDSON HAWK 3 THE OBLONG BOX General Knowledge 4 WILLIAM SHATNER 1 MEL BROOKS 5 PAMELA ANDERSON 2 PAUL GREENGRASS 3 THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH 4 KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE 5 12 ANGRY MEN Southern Gothic 1 INTRUDER IN THE DUST 2 SIDNEY LUMET Cannes Film Festival 2015 3 HARPER LEE 1 INGRID BERGMAN 4 THE YOUNG ONE 2 JOEL & ETHAN COEN 5 JAMES MASON 3 1955 4 A PROPHET 5 GUS VAN SANT Noel Coward 1 MR BRIDGER 2 THE VORTEX 3 DESIGN FOR LIVING 4 SACHA DISTEL 5 CAROL REED.