BFI FILM QUIZ: JULY 2016

PICTURE ROUND: POSTER ROUND:

1 Frank Sinatra - The Detective
2 Albert Finney - Murder on the Orient 1. DUEL
Express 2. ALWAYS
3 Jack Nicholson – Chinatown 3. LINCOLN
4 Mickey Rourke - Angel Heart 4. THE COLOR PURPLE
5 Morgan Freeman – Seven 5. THE TERMINAL
6 Clint Eastwood - Dirty Harry 6. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
7 Donald Sutherland – Klute 7. ARMISTAD
8 Mark Ruffalo – Zodiac 8. THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS
9 Humphrey Bogart - The Big Sleep 9. EMPIRE OF THE SUN
10 Gene Hackman - The French Connection 10. HOOK

General Knowledge

1 Which 1970 biographical war film, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, won seven Academy Awards,
including Best Picture?

PATTON

2 Name the French actress, singer, screenwriter and director who links the films Jules et Jim and Lift
to the Scaffold?

JEANNE MOREAU

3 What is the subtitle to the third instalment of James DeMonaco’s film series The Purge, which was
released earlier this month?

ELECTION YEAR

4 Which director, who recently won the Palme D’Or for the second time, was awarded a prestigious
BFI Fellowship in 1996?

KEN LOACH

5 Which 1982 film, directed by Amy Heckerling and written by Cameron Crowe, saw the big screen
debut of Nicolas Cage, then billing himself as Nicolas Coppola?

FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH

Olivia de Havilland

1 Olivia de Havilland celebrated her 100th birthday earlier this month. For which 1946 film did she
win the first of her two Academy Awards for Best Actress?

TO EACH HIS OWN

2 de Havilland and her estranged sister are the only siblings to have both won lead acting Academy
Awards. Name the sister.

JOAN FONTAINE

3 De Havilland made eight appearances alongside which actor, with whom she starred in films
including Captain Blood, Dodge City and The Charge of the Light Brigade?

ERROLL FLYNN

4 In which 1952 gothic romance, directed by Henry Koster, did de Havilland star opposite Richard
Burton?

MY COUSIN RACHEL

5 Who directed the 1949 film The Heiress, in which de Havilland starred alongside Montgomery Clift
& Ralph Richardson and for which she won her second Best Actress Oscar?

WILLIAM WYLER

London Indian Film Festival

1 Europe's largest Asian film festival takes place this month, in the shape of the London Indian Film
Festival. Which 2016 drama directed by Ketan Mehta and following an inmate of a mental institution
who hasn’t slept for 15 years, will close the festival?

TOBA TEK SINGH

2 Name the 1975 Indian action thriller directed by Ramesh Sippy and starring
Dharmendra and Amitabh Bachchan, which remains one of the high-grossing Indian films ever and
was named by Sight & Sound magazine as the best Indian film of all time?

SHOLAY

3 The 1955 film, Pather Pachali, widely regarded as the forerunner of social realism in Indian cinema,
was the directorial debut of which Bengali filmmaker?

SATYAJIT RAY

4 According to Forbes magazine, three of the top ten highest paid actors in the world are Indian
actors. One is Amitabh Bachchan (of Sholay, and more recently the Avengers series). Can you name
the other two?

SALMAN KHAN + AKSHAY KUMAR

5 Which epic 1957 Hindi-language drama depicts a poverty-stricken village woman struggling to raise
her sons and survive against a cunning money-lender, setting a goddess-like moral example of an
ideal Indian woman?

MOTHER INDIA
Guilty Pleasures

1 Which actress and comedienne links the films Mean Girls, Date Night and Muppets Most Wanted?

TINA FEY

2 Name the 1996 erotic comedy, starring Demi Moore, which won that year’s Golden Raspberry
Award for Worst Picture.

STRIPTEASE

3 Name the 1955 horror film, directed by Ed Wood, which starred Bela Lugosi, Swedish wrestler Tor
Johnson and Loretta King.

BRIDE OF THE MONSTER

4 Which actress appeared as Princess Mindy, Neptune's daughter, in 2004’s SpongeBob SquarePants
Movie?

SCARLETT JOHANSSON

5 Name the action actor who wrote, directed, produced, and starred in the short film Multi-Facial
and the feature-length drama film Strays.

VIN DIESEL

Jack Gold

1 Who played the protagonist Jack Morlar in Jack Gold's classic 1978 film The Medusa Touch?

RICHARD BURTON

2 Name Gold's 1984 property-based comedy drama, which starred the likes of Nigel Hawthorne,
Billie Whitelaw and Warren Mitchell.

THE CHAIN

3 Name the 1987 made-for-TV drama starring Rutger Hauer and Alan Arkin, which tells the story of a
mass escape from a Nazi extermination camp.

ESCAPE FROM SOBIBOR

4 Which Northern Irish character actor starred as Joseph Stalin in Gold's 1983 TV movie Red
Monarch?

COLIN BLAKELEY

5 Name Jack Gold's final work, a 1998 TV film adaptation of a book by Michelle Magorian, with a cast
featuring well known British actors including the late John Thaw.

GOODNIGHT MISTER TOM