BFI Film Quiz - January 2016 QUESTIONS General Knowledge 1 Name the romantic drama, directed by Dellbert Mann and starring Ernest Borgnine alongside Betsy Blair, which won the 1955 Academy Award for Best Film. 2 Which actress links the films Almost Famous, Burn After Reading and Mississippi Burning? 3 Which French film, directed by Jacques Audiard, won the Palme D’Or at last year’s Cannes Film Festi- val? 4 Which Irish-American actress, who died in October, having appeared in films such as The Wings of Eagles and Rio Grande, was awarded a prestigious BFI Fellowship in 1993? 5 Who directed the 1981 British production Chariots of Fire, which won that year’s BAFTA Award for Best Film? Film in 2016 1 Which comedian and actor will host the 2016 Academy Awards, 11 years after he first took up the role? 2 Name the Marvel superhero film, directed by Tim Miller and released next month, which stars Ryan Reynolds as the title character. 3 Director Jon Favreau is behind which CGI-live-action remake of a 1967 Disney animated feature, due for release in April 2016? 4 The 2016 BAFTA Awards will be held on Valentine’s Day this year. Name the American who has been nominated in the Best Actor in a Leading Role category, for his eponymous performance in Jay Roach’s film Trumbo. 5 Name the director of the eagerly awaited film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, starring BenAf - fleck and Henry Cavill, which will be released in March 2016. Jean-Luc Godard 1 Name Jean-Luc Godard’s first feature film; released in 1960, it was based on a treatment by Francois Truffaut. 2 Name Godard’s second feature, set during the Algerian War of Independence, which remained banned for three years in France until the conflict itself ended. 3 Which group, formed in 1968 by politically active filmmakers including Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin, produced films primarily involving Brechtian forms, Marxist ideology, and a lack of personal authorship? The group was named after a Soviet filmmaker of the 1920/30s. 4 The character Lemmy Caution, who appeared in the Godard films Alphaville and Germany Year 90 Nine Zero, was portrayed by which American-French actor and singer? 5 Name Godard’s most recent film, released in 2014. An experimental 3D narrative essay, it stars Héloïse Godet and Kamel Abdeli as a couple having an affair. Guilty Pleasures 1 What was the highest grossing animated film worldwide in 2015; it was also the 5th highest grossing film overall last year? 2 Next month sees the release of a big screen adaptation of the classic British sitcom, Dad’s Army; which actor reprises Arthur Lowe’s role as the pompous Captain Manwairing? 3 Name the character in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, who is voiced by Lupita Nyong’o and who has run a cantina on the planet Takodana for over 1,000 years. 4 Which film was promoted with the tagline “Yippee Ki-yay Mother Russia”? 5 Which actor links the films Earth Girls are Easy, Batman Forever and Mr. Popper’s Penguins? Quentin Tarantino 1 Which partially lost black-and-white amateur film, written by Craig Hamann and QuentinTarantino, formed the basis for the Tarantino written Tony Scott film True Romance? 2 Which actor has appeared in Tarantino films playing characters including Freddy Newendyke, Ringo (or Pumpkin) and Oswaldo Mobray? 3 Which 1997 Tarantino film is an adaptation of the 1922 Elmore Leonard novel Rum Punch, though the location is shifted from Florida to Los Angeles? 4 Name the two films for which Tarantino has won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. 5 Which legendary composer of spaghetti-western soundtracks provided the original music for Taran- tino’s latest film, The Hateful Eight? ANSWERS Picture Round – Princesses Poster Round – War Films 1 Princess Fiona - Shrek 1 Shoulder Arms 2 Princess Ann - Roman Holiday 2 Saving Private Ryan 3 Princess Amidala - The Phantom Menace 3 American Sniper 4 Princess Arwen - Lord of the Rings 4 Inglorious Basterds 5 Princess Fa Mulan - Mulan 5 For Whom the Bell Tolls 6 Princess Anna - King Ralph 6 Black Hawk Down 7 Princess Maria - Princess O’Rourke 7 Gallipoli 8 Princess Amelia - The Princess Diaries 8 Fury 9 Princess Buttercup - The Princess Bride 9 All Quiet on the Western Front 10 Princess Merida – Brave 10 Oh! What a Lovely War General Knowledge Guilty Pleasures 1 MARTY 1 MINIONS 2 FRANCES McDORMAND 2 TOBY JONES 3 DHEEPAN 3 MAZ KANATA 4 MAUREEN O’HARA 4 A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD 5 HUGH HUDSON 5 JIM CARREY Film in 2016 Quentin Tarantino 1 CHRIS ROCK 1 MY BEST FRIEND’S BIRTHDAY 2 DEADPOOL 2 TIM ROTH 3 THE JUNGLE BOOK 3 JACKIE BROWN 4 BRYAN CRANSTON 4 PULP FICTION & DJANGO UNCHAINED 5 ZACH SNYDER 5 ENNIO MORRICONE Jean-Luc Godard 1 BREATHLESS (A BOUT DE SOUFFLE) 2 THE LITTLE SOLDIER (LE PETIT SOLDAT) 3 THE DZIGA VERTOV GROUP 4 EDDIE CONSTANTINE 5 GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE (ADIEU AU LANGAGE).