Movie Quiz Contest 2005, written by Jon Pennington, uc berkeley
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Answer: Radio Keith Orpheum 39. The House is Black, The Day I Became a Woman, The Wind Will Carry Us, The White Balloon, Crimson Gold, and A Taste of Cherry were all films created in this country. Directors here include Jafar Panahi, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, and Abbas Kiarostami. The only film from this country to receive an Oscar nomination is 1997’s The Children of Heaven, while the country’s most commercially successful film is the anticlerical comedy, the Lizard. FTP, what is this member of the Axis of Evil with movies filmed in the Farsi language? Answer: Iran (or Iranian films or Iranian film industry or equivalents) 40. Leo McCarey couldn’t complete the film My Son John, because the lead actor had died, so he used outtakes from this film to finish the job. Tennis star Guy Haines wants to marry Senator Morton’s daughter, Barbara, but his wife won’t grant him a divorce. Bruno Anthony responds to Guy’s plight by unilaterally deciding to kill Guy’s wife at a carnival. At the climax, a fight on an out-of-control carousel leads the police to evidence that pins the murder on Bruno instead of Guy. FTP, what is this 1951 Hitchcock film about a chance meeting on a locomotive? Answer: Strangers on a Train 41. Guillermo Del Toro, the director of Hellboy, once told an interview that he became a vegetarian after watching this film. The film begins with stock footage of a solar flare, followed by narration by John Larroquette. After learning their grandfather’s grave has been desecrated, Sally and her wheelchair-bound brother Franklyn go with Pam and Kirk to an abandoned house. Kirk looks for the owner, but gets his skull cracked with a sledgehammer instead. Sally, played by Marilyn Burns, has to jump out of a second-story window twice in order to escape. FTP, name this cult 1974 horror film featuring power tools in the Deep South. Answer: the Texas Chain Saw Massacre 42. In 2003, one year after he died, he received the title “Center of the Hollywood Universe,” because any actor can be connected to him in the style of the Kevin Bacon game in an average of 2.651 steps. He originated the role of Marty on television, but let the movie role go to Ernest Borgnine. Although born a Lutheran, he was often misidentified as Jewish, because he often played Jewish characters such as an Orthodox Rabbi in The Chosen and a Holocaust survivor in The Pawnbroker. FTP, name this actor who played the mobster Charlie the Gent in On The Waterfront and won an Oscar as the sheriff in the film, In the Heat of the Night. Answer: Rod Steiger 43. Lovers is Number 5; Interview is Number 7; Julien Donkey-Boy is Number 6; The King Is Alive is Number 4; and The Idiots is Number 2. Its manifesto calls for a “vow of chastity” that forbids optical work, filters, special lighting, geographical alienation, and genre movies. All shooting must be done on location; the camera must be hand-held; and the sound must not be produced apart from the images. FTP, name this doctrinal filmmaking movement most closely associated with Denmark and filmmaker Lars von Trier. Answer: Dogme 95 44. At the end of the film, she gets a job appearing on a children’s show filmed at KTVU in San Francisco with a puppet named Kovacs. Opposed to Stuart Dunmeyer’s romantic flirtations with Miranda, she subjected Stuart to a “run-by fruiting” by conking him on the back of the head with a lime. Her first name is Euphegenia, but she passed herself off as Daniel Hillard’s Scottish sister when Mrs. Sellner, the social worker, came over for an inspection. FTP, name this title character and fictional nanny played by Robin Williams in a dress. Answer: Mrs. Doubtfire 45. Senator Ransom Stoddard returns to Shinbone to view the burial of Tom Donovan. In flashback, Ransom describes how he got whipped by a bandit who opposed his efforts to help his territory get statehood. Ransom bravely faced off against the whip-wielding villain, but reveals that Tom Donovan was the one who really killed the title character. The local newspaper then refuses to print the story, saying “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” FTP, name this 1962 John Ford Western starring Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, and Lee Marvin as the title character. Answer: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 46. Sources disagree about the first example of this form, but it may be either the News on the March sequence from Citizen Kane or a 1957 BBC program about the Swiss spaghetti harvest. Other early examples include Peter Watkins’ The War Game, Jim McBride’s David Holzman’s Diary, Woody Allen’s Take the Money and Run, Eric Idle’s The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, and Albert Brooks’ Real Life. The most frequent popularizer of the genre is Christopher Guest who not only starred in This Is Spinal Tap, but directed three of his own. FTP, name this genre that refers to fiction films that present themselves as cinema verite. Answer: mockumentary (also accept mock documentary, fictional documentary, or false documentary) 47. The plot for this film was so complex that neither the writer of the story, nor the screenwriters Leigh Brackett and William Faulkner could identify who committed all the murders. Colonel Sternwood hires the protagonist to investigate book dealer Arthur Geiger who was blackmailing the colonel’s daughter Carmen. By the end of the film, the protagonist traces the blackmail plot back to gangster Eddie Mars who gets shot to death in Geiger’s driveway by his own men after he gets mistaken for Philip Marlowe. Featuring Lauren Bacall as Vivien Sternwood, FTP name this 1946 Howard Hawks film noir starring Humphrey Bogart. Answer: The Big Sleep 48. In the movie Night Moves, Gene Hackman’s character compares the work of this director to watching paint dry. In 1957, he and Claude Chabrol published the first book-length critical study of Alfred Hitchcock. Born Jean-Marie Maurice Scherer, his feature debut was The Sign of Leo, but he is better known for a series of Six Moral Tales including Chloe in the Afternoon, My Night at Maud’s, and Claire’s Knee. Later in the 1990s, he released four films with seasonal titles including A Tale of Springtime and Autumn Tale. FTP, identify this French New Wave director of Pauline at the Beach who named himself after the author of the Fu Manchu stories. Answer: Eric Rohmer (accept Jean-Marie Maurice Scherer on very early buzz) 49. In the movie L.A. Confidential, Detective Exley must apologize after mistakenly identifying this actress as a prostitute. She made her first appearance in the 1937 version of A Star is Born, but her scenes were left on the cutting room floor. A star of the melodramas Madame X and Imitation of Life, her own personal life was melodramatic, because of her seven marriages and her daughter Cheryl Crane’s fatal stabbing of her boyfriend Johnny Stompanato. Also known for her role in The Postman Always Rings Twice, FTP who is this MGM “sweater girl” allegedly discovered sipping Coke at a drugstore? Answer: Lana Turner (or Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner) 50. Jack Webb plays an uncharacteristic role as Artie Green, the best friend of screenwriter Joe Gillis. While running away from creditors, Gillis gets a flat tire that leads him to a mansion where an eccentric woman conducts a funeral for a pet chimpanzee. Gillis later meets the butler, Max von Mayerling, played by Erich von Stroheim, who confesses that he was the woman’s ex-husband. The film both begins and ends with Gillis face down in a swimming pool after Norma Desmond shot him dead. Norma says, “I’m ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille” as the police take her away FTP, in what 1950 Billy Wilder movie starring William Holden and Gloria Swanson? Answer: Sunset Boulevard 51. “Greetings, my friends. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember, my friends, future events such as these will affect you in the future.” The narration by the psychic Criswell begins this film, which focuses on the aliens Eros and Tanna who try to prevent the “stupid, stupid” Earthlings from developing the deadly Solaranite bomb. The chiropractor Tom Mason played the Ghoul Man, even though he was a foot taller than his predecessor, the recently deceased Bela Lugosi. Directed by Edward Wood, FTP name this Grade-Z 1959 sci-fi film that won a Golden Turkey Award as the worst film of all time. Answer: Plan Nine from Outer Space 52. El Chivo is a former political dissident who works as a hitman, while Octavio, played by Gael Garcia Bernal, owns Cofi, a rottwelier that he will use to win money to run off with his sister-in-law Susanna. Daniel left his wife to shack up with the fashion model Valeria, but Daniel goes crazy tearing up the floorboards looking for Valeria’s pet Ritchie. All the major characters are tied together by a car accident that kills Octavio and disfigures Valeria FTP in what Mexican film from 2000 with a canine title? Answer: Amores Perros (or Love’s a Bitch) 53. Tom Servo from MST3K made fun of this director’s entire body of work by comparing it to a scene in Hercules against the Moon Men. In 1985, he had a stroke, which forced him to let Wim Wenders finish the film, Beyond the Clouds. In 1970, he was labeled a “pinko dago pornographer” and got monitored by the FBI for filming a desert orgy scene incorporated into the film, Zabriskie Point. He directed a trilogy that includes La Notte and L’Eclisse, but may be better known for his English language debut, Blow-Up. FTP, name this Italian director of the Passenger and L’Avventura. Answer: Michelangelo Antonioni 54. The original version of this film was screened in 1957, but that version disappeared until Professor Ray Carney found it in the attic of a Florida junk dealer in 2002. Tony Ray plays Tony; Lelia Goldoni plays Lelia; and Ben Carruthers plays Ben. Tony convinces Lelia to surrender her virginity, but Tony drops her after meeting her brother Hugh makes him realize that Lelia is nonwhite. A landmark in American independent film, FTP name this jazzy, improvisational directorial debut by John Cassavetes. Answer: Shadows 55. According to historian George Chauncey, the first use of the word “gay” to refer to a homosexual was in this film, when Dr. David Huxley gets caught wearing a woman’s bathrobe. Susan Vance wants to attract the zoologist Dr. Huxley, but her dog George buries one of Huxley’s priceless dinosaur bones. In another plot thread, David and Susan must sing “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love” in order to distinguish the title character from a wild animal that attacked its trainer at the circus. Revolving around a case of mistaken identity with a leopard, FTP what is this 1938 screwball comedy with Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn? Answer: Bringing Up Baby 56. This technique first appeared in 1898 when George Melies used it to depict a magician who sprouted four heads. Commonly used to depict telephone conservations, the 1973 thriller Wicked, Wicked and Timecode by Mike Figgis were both filmed entirely in this format. Brian De Palma has used it in at least nine films including Sisters, Phantom of the Paradise, Blow Out, and the gym sequence in Carrie. FTP what is this technique for dividing a movie image also used in episodes of the TV show 24. Answer: split screen 57. Jules, a delivery boy, makes a bootleg of an opera with soprano Cynthia Hawkins who refuses to make any official recordings. Later, the bootleg gets switched with a cassette that threatens to tie the police to a prostitution scandal. A skinhead named Curé with a fondness for polka starts killing people with an ice pick to get the tape back, while Jules has to elude the police by riding his moped through the Paris Metro. Directed by Jean-Jacques Beneix, FTP name this 1981 French cult classic whose title refers to the lead female singer in an opera. Answer: Diva 58. Until the truth was uncovered by a researcher for Time magazine in the early 1970s, he grew up believing that his grandmother was his mother and his mother was his older sister. In the original version of Little Shop of Horrors, he played the same role played by Bill Murray in the remake. He co-wrote the Monkees’ first film, Head, and made his directorial debut with Drive, He Said, which Beck sampled in the song Loser. FTP, name this three-time Best Actor Winner who also appeared in The Shining. Answer: Jack Nicholson 59. Leon, played by Brion James, commits murder after he gets caught flunking the Voigt-Kampff test. Zhora, Pris, and their leader Roy Batty have all escaped in order to find both the prematurely aging inventor, J.F. Sanderson, and the owner of the Tyrrell Corporation who made them “more human than human.” The film ends as Gaff, played by Edward James Olmos, allows Rick Deckard to run off with the replicant Rachael, played by Sean Young. Based on Philip Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, FTP what is this 1982 sci-fi film starring Harrison Ford? Answer: Blade Runner 60. "...and now, we begin our story with a phrase that is like a time machine for children: Once Upon a Time..." A merchant angers the owner of a mysterious castle after plucking a rose, but the owner agrees not to sentence the merchant to death if he sacrifices one of his daughters. The daughter reaches the castle where she finds magical moving statues and candlesticks, in addition to a storehouse full of gold. Featuring a score by Georges Auric of Le Six, the Criterion Collection edition also has an opera based on this film by Phillip Glass. Directed by Jean Cocteau, FTP name this 1946 fairy tale that shares its name with a 1991 Disney musical. Answer: La Belle et la Bête or (The) Beauty and the Beast 61. John Byrum’s Inserts, Mario Bava’s Rabid Dogs, Heinz Schirk’s The Wannsee Conference, Richard Linklater’s Tape, James Toback’s Two Girls and a Guy, Robert Wise’s The Set-Up, Louis Malle’s My Dinner with Andre, Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope, Agnes Varda’s Cleo from 5 to 7, and John Badham’s The Nick of Time all have this unusual feature. Often used in conjunction with close-ups of analog and digital clocks, FTP what is this story-telling technique shared with the Western movie High Noon and episodes of the TV show 24? Answer: filmed in real time (accept equivalents) 62. When asked about his religious views, he said, “Thank God I’m an atheist.” In 1930, he sparked riots among French right-wingers, because of the anticlerical content in his film, L’Âge d'Or. He depicted poverty among the Spanish peasantry in Land Without Bread, then made several films in Mexico, including El Bruto, The Young One, and Los Olvidados. Awarded the Golden Palm in 1961 for Viridiana, FTP name this Spanish surrealist filmmaker who collaborated with Salvador Dali on Un Chien Andalou. Answer: Luis Buñuel 63. His brother Richard directed the movie, Forbidden Zone, and cast him in the role of Satan. He’s written scores for Scrooged, Midnight Run, and numerous movies based on comic books, including Dick Tracy, Spiderman, and Batman. In addition, the actress who plays Dharma on Dharma & Greg is the wife of his nephew. However, his most long-running collaboration developed because a young movie director was a fan of his band Oingo Boingo. FTP, name this film composer best known for working with Tim Burton. Answer: Danny Elfman 64. This movie originally premiered at a gay porn theater in Boston, although the director prefers to hold premieres in Baltimore. Connie and Raymond Marble have instructed their butler, Channing, to kidnap and inseminate women so they can sell the babies to lesbian couples. The Marbles want to be declared them the filthiest people alive, but they must compete with Babs Johnson who puts a hex on their furniture by performing a blow job on her son Crackers. Ending with the ingestion of dog turd, FTP what is this midnight movie directed by John Waters, named after tacky lawn ornaments? Answer: Pink Flamingos 65. Examples include Marjoe, White Wilderness, Journey into Self, and the Hellstrom Chronicle. They include Hotel Terminus, but not The Thin Blue Line; Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, but not Roger & Me; Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision, but not Hoop Dreams. Hearts & Minds won in 1974, but Frank Sinatra denounced it from the podium for its antiwar views. The first female winner was Barbara Kopple in 1976 for Harlan County U.S.A. FTP, name this Academy Award category granted to the greatest non-fiction feature. Answer: Best Documentary Oscar winner (prompt on documentary or Oscar winner or Oscar nominee or Best Documentary nominees) 66. Dr. John Prentice is a specialist in tropical diseases who must leave to work for the World Health Organization in Geneva for three months. Joanna Drayton will meet Dr. Prentice in Geneva so they can get married, but she wants John to meet her parents first. Monsignor Ryan sings the Beatles in order to say “We Can Work It Out,” while Joanna’s father Matt discovers after ordering some Oregon Boysenberry Sherbet, that he can accept her daughter marrying a black man. The final performance of Spencer Tracy, FTP name this 1967 Sidney Poitier movie that inspired a 2005 Bernie Mac film. Answer: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner 67. She played the same role in Mississippi Mermaid that Angelina Jolie played in the 2001 remake, Original Sin. She appeared with her sister Francoise Dorleac in the 1967 musical, the Young Girls of Rochefort, a role similar to her performance in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. She played a virgin driven murderously insane in Roman Polanski’s Repulsion and a housewife who becomes a prostitute in Bunuel’s Belle du Jour. FTP, name this beloved French actress who received her first Oscar nomination for Indochine. Answer: Catherine Deneuve (accept Dorleac before it’s mentioned in the question) 68. The last name’s the same. Saul was a composer who worked with Leonard Bernstein on both On the Town and West Side Story, in addition to writing Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen. Geraldine played a BBC reporter in Nashville and a dance instructor in Pedro Almodovar’s Talk to Her. Ben was the love interest who came between Uma Thurman and Janeane Garofalo in The Truth about Cats & Dogs. Josephine and Michael appear in the opening scenes of their father’s film Limelight, while their mother Oona was the daughter of Eugene O’Neill. FTP, what is the surname they share with a silent film comedian named Charlie? Answer: Chaplin 69. When the actor, Guy Woodhouse, mentions the upcoming arrival of Pope Paul VI in Yankee Stadium, his neighbor says the pope never visits when newspapers are on strike. At the funeral of Edward Hutchins, the title character learns that her friend’s dying words were “The name is an anagram.” This leads her to play with Scrabble tiles until she realizes that her neighbor Roman Castevet is the same person as Steven Marcato, the son of a martyred warlock. Based on a novel by Ira Levin, FTP name this 1968 Satanic horror thriller by Roman Polanski starring Mia Farrow. Answer: Rosemary’s Baby 70. Alexander Sokurov’s Russian Ark is the first film to use this technique for its entire running time. Both the Soviet documentary I Am Cuba and Boogie Nights feature one that follows a swimmer diving into a pool of water, while Martin Scorsese uses one to follow Ray Liotta and Lorraine Bracco as they walk through the kitchen of the Copacabana night club. FTP, identify this term for a shot that follows the action smoothly in one plane with no edits by moving the camera on a fixed dolly. Answer: tracking shot 71. Charles Ponceforte Pike is not only a biologist but an heir to the Pike’s Pale Ale Company, the Ale that Won for Yale. The title character uses the alias Jean Harrington, but Charles withdraws his marriage proposal after learning that her partners Gilbert and Handsome Harry are professional card sharks. She then impersonates the British niece of Sir Alfred McGlennan Keith so that can she can win back Charles Pike’s affections. FTP, this describes what 1941 Preston Sturges comedy with Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck? Answer: the Lady Eve 72. Charles Vanel plays a nosy private detective who later inspired the TV character, Lieutenant Columbo. Paul Meurisse plays Michel Delassalle, the headmaster at a boys’ school who abuses his Venezuelan wife, Christina. Christina and her husband’s mistress Nicole team up to drown him in a bathtub. Then they dump the body at the school swimming pool. Christina later faints when she discovers that her husband’s body can’t be found after draining the pool. A major influence on Alfred Hitchock’s Psycho, FTP name this 1955 French thriller starring Simone Signoret, later remade with Sharon Stone. Answer: Diabolique (or Les Diaboliques or The Devils) 73. The atomic-powered “Whatsis” in Kiss Me Deadly and the glowing briefcase in Pulp Fiction are both examples of this. The word allegedly refers to a device for hunting lions in the Scottish highlands, but when you say there are no lions in the Scottish highlands, the owner will reply “Aye, that’s no (blank).” More well-known examples include a wine bottle with uranium in Notorious and a briefcase with $40,000 in embezzled money in Psycho. FTP, what is this term coined by Alfred Hitchcock for an object used arbitrarily to set the plot of a thriller in motion? Answer: a McGuffin 74. He directed an unreleased TV commercial featuring Ellen Feiss that is now an Internet cult classic, because some believe that Ellen was stoned. He invented the Interrotron, which uses technology similar to a teleprompter in order to promote eye contact with the camera lens. His only fiction film is the Dark Wind, but he has depicted pet cemeteries in Gates of Heaven and a Holocaust denier in Mr. Death. FTP, name this documentarian who profiled Steven Hawking and Robert McNamara in A Brief History of Time and the Fog of War. Answer: Errol Morris 75. He directed the film, Let’s Do It Again, which introduced the character of Biggie Smalls, a nickname later appropriated by the rapper Notorious B.I.G. The film Six Degrees of Separation was based on a real-life story about a hustler who impersonated this actor’s nonexistent son Paul. He won his only Oscar for playing a construction worker who helps a group of German nuns build a church, but South Park fans might recognize him for turning into Gamera the turtle. The first black man to win an Oscar, FTP name this star of Sneakers, To Sir with Love, and In the Heat of the Night. Answer: Sidney Poitier 76. Because the film was banned for decades by the Production Code, it had alternate titles, including Forbidden Love, Nature’s Mistakes, and the Monster Show. Based on the short story, Spurs, by Tod Robbins, it depicts Cleopatra’s plans to marry Hans so that she can swindle him out of his inheritance and run off with the strongman Hercules. A banquet is prepared for Hans and Cleopatra, where the guests chant “We accept her! One of us! One of us…,” but Cleopatra runs off in disgust. The Hilton Sisters play Siamese twins, while Johnny Eck plays a man with no torso. FTP, name this 1932 cult horror film whose title refers to circus sideshow performers. Answer: Freaks 77. The violinists, Mr. Robinson and Mr. Harvey, were played by two actors who later became veterans of the Pink Panther series. Professor Marcus has assembled them to join a string quintet at Mrs. Louisa Wilberforce’s house so that they can pull off a daring armored car robbery, but Mrs. Wilberforce sees the money when Mr. Lawson’s cello case flies open. In the remake, the crime is a casino robbery; the little old lady is black; but in both films, the mastermind is a professor with crazy teeth. FTP, name this 1955 British comedy recently remade by the Coen Brothers. Directory: archive archive -> Tr-41. 4-03-05-024 Telecommunications archive -> Gary C. Kessler archive -> Tossups center of the known universe open 1998 Combined packet of Tennessee I and utc blue archive -> PriceWaterhouseCoopers Archive 148 linear feet in 98 record cartons and 4 flat boxes. 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