SEPTEMBER 2013 QUESTIONS GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 1 Name the film, directed by Paul Greengrass and starring Tom Hanks, which will open this year’s BFI London Film Festival. 2 Which Oscar winning actor played the character of Ron Jenkins in Coronation Street during the 1960s? 3 Who directed the 1985 comedy-drama My Beautiful Laundrette, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and written by Hanif Kureishi? 4 For which 1980 film did Mary Tyler-Moore win the Golden Globe for Best Actress, while also being nominated for the same award at both the Oscars and the BAFTAs? 5 Which actor has been named as the new Batman, who is set to battle Superman in the upcoming sequel to Man of Steel? AUSTRALIAN FILM 1 Who directed the award winning 2002 film Rabbit Proof Fence, which focused on the vexed subject ofAustralian race relations? 2 Name the 2012 film, directed by Wayne Blair, in which a character played by Chris O’Dowd takes an aboriginal girl group on a tour of wartime Vietnam. 3 In Nicolas Roeg’s 1971 film Walkabout, who plays the character known only as ‘the girl’ who becomes stranded in the Australian outback when her father goes beserk? 4 Australian director Baz Luhrmann has directed five feature films to date; but with which 1992 film did he make his big screen directorial debut? 5 Name the Australian documentary maker whose work includes Stealing a Nation, The War on Democracy and Utopia. SATYAJIT RAY 1 In which Indian city was Satyajit Ray born in 1921; he also died there in 1992? 2 Ray was the second film personality to be awarded an honorary doctorate by Oxford University; who was the first? 3 Which 1963 film marked the first time that Ray worked with Bengali star Madhabi Mukherjee? 4 Many literary works include references to Ray’s films; but who wrote the children’s book Haroun and the Sea of Stories, which contains fish named Goopy and Bagha, a tribute to characters who appear in several Ray films? 5 Which 1970 film, starring Dhritiman Chatterjee, focuses on the mayhem of the Naxalite movement in Bengal and is considered Ray’s most political work? GUILTY PLEASURES 1 Which actor links the films Coneheads, Airheads and I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry? 2 Which 1997 film was promoted with the tagline, “even a hit man deserves a second shot”? 3 Who directed the 1975 musical comedy At Long Last Love, starring Burt Reynolds, which received such a nega- tive reception that the director issued a public apology? 4 Which 1970 comedy, based on his novel, did Gore Vidal call “an awful joke” and blame for a decade long drought in sales of the original book? 5 Which actress holds the record for the most Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Actress, having accumulated an impressive five gongs? AUGUST 2013 ANSWERS PICTURE ROUND: WRITERS IN FILM POST ROUND: POLISH FILM POSTER 1 Gary Oldman – Joe Orton 1 Apocalypse Now 2 Gwyneth Paltrow – Sylvia Plath 2 Breakfast at Tiffany’s 3 Jennifer Jason Leigh – Dorothy Parker 3 War Games 4 Johnny Depp – JM Barrie 4 Mash 5 Philip Seymour Hoffman – Truman Capote 5 The Getaway 6 Samuel Roache – Samuel Coleridge 6 Return of the Pink Panther 7 Nicole Kidman – Virginia Woolf 7 The Last Detail 8 Joseph Fiennes – William Shakespeare 8 Gremlins 9 Kerry Fox – Janet Frame 9 Weekend at Bernie’s 10 Stephen Fry – Oscar Wilde 10 Terms of Endearment GENERAL KNOWLEDGE SATYAJIT RAY 1 CAPTAIN PHILLIPS 1 CALCUTTA 2 SIR BEN KINGSLEY 2 CHARLIE CHAPLIN 3 STEPHEN FREARS 3 THE BIG CITY 4 ORDINARY PEOPLE 4 SALMAN RUSHDIE 5 BEN AFFLECK 5 THE ADVERSARY AUSTRALIAN FILM GUILTY PLEASURES 1 PHILLIP NOYCE 1 ADAM SANDLER 2 THE SAPPHIRES 2 GROSSE POINT BLANKE 3 JENNY AGUTTER 3 PETER BOGDANOVICH 4 STRICTLY BALLROOM 4 MYRA BRECKINRIDGE 5 JOHN PILGER 5 MADONNA.