Movie Quiz Contest 2005, written by Jon Pennington, uc berkeley
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Answer: The Ladykillers 78. Graham Greene was once sued for libel, because he published a film review that praised this actress for her “neat and well-developed rump.” Shortly before retiring, she appeared with her first husband John Agar in the film Fort Apache, but she is better known for playing the title roles in Susannah of the Mounties, the Littlest Rebel, Little Miss Marker, and Heidi. The youngest person ever to receive an honorary Oscar, FTP name this child actress of the 1930s who also served as ambassador to Ghana. Answer: Shirley (Jane) Temple (Black) 79. From 1954 to 1958, the director Lindsay Anderson worked as a film critic for this publication. Created by the British Film Institute, this magazine is best known for releasing an issue every ten years that includes a survey of both directors and critics about the ten best films of all time, which has certified Citizen Kane as the best film ever made in every poll since 1962. FTP, name this English film magazine whose alliterative title refers to both visual and auditory sensations. Answer: Sight and Sound 80. A squire vows to get revenge against the seminarian who sent him to the Crusades after catching the man stealing a silver bracelet from a corpse. Mia and Jof (yoff) are members of an acting troupe traveling to the Saints Festival in Elsinore, but English-language subtitles often translate their names as Mary and Joseph. Antonius Block, played by Max von Sydow, loses his last game of chess, which leads Death to carry off Antonius and most of his friends. FTP, name this 1957 Ingmar Bergman film with a title derived from the Book of Revelations. Answer: The Seventh Seal (or Det Sjunde Inseglet) 81. Dr. Cliff Huxtable of the Cosby Show said he loved the heroine so much that he saw the film over 20 times. In his negative review, Jean-Luc Godard said this film is “poetry without the poet.” The title character is a streetcar driver engaged to marry Mira, but falls in love with the cousin of his neighbor Serafina instead. Mira tries to kill off her rival during Carnival, but instead the heroine gets electrocuted while fleeing a man in a skeleton costume. FTP, name this film by Marcel Camus about a dark-skinned man who fails to revive his lover Eurydice. Answer: Black Orpheus (or Orfeu Negro) 82. Associated with the financially struggling UFA studios, it relies heavily on chiaroscuro lighting, surrealistic set design, and tilted camera angles. Examples of films in this style include Destiny, the Golem, Pandora’s Box, and The Last Laugh, while the definitive book about this movement is Siegfried Kracauer’s From Caligari to Hitler. A major influence on both horror and film noir, FTP, name this cinematic movement of the 1920s and 30s that collapsed after most of its adherents fled the Nazi regime. Answer: German expressionism (accept Caligarism on an early buzz) 83. Examples include Sartana the Gravedigger, The Hills Run Red, A Bullet for the General, and Duck, You Sucker! A major influence on the Lonesome Grave of Paula Schulz sequence in Kill Bill, Volume 2, this genre became associated with Cinecitta studios in the early 1960s, because locations in Almeria, Spain could be made to look like Mexican borderlands during the 1890s. Associated with the director Sergio Leone, FTP give this term for Italian cowboy movies nicknamed after a common form of pasta. Answer: spaghetti westerns (prompt on westerns or Italian westerns) 84. Oscar-winning actress Mercedes McCambridge appears in a leather jacket as a member of the El Grandi Gang, which menaces Suzie, the new wife of prosecutor Mike Vargas. Vargas opposes Detective Hank Quinlan framing Sanchez for dynamiting a man’s car with a bomb depicted in a famous three-minute tracking shot. Featuring Dennis Weaver, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Marlene Dietrich, and Charlton Heston as a Mexican, FTP name this 1958 film noir directed by Orson Welles. Answer: Touch of Evil 85. In 1991, he conquered his cocaine addiction in drug rehab the same year that he won a Best Supporting Actor award at the Cannes Film for playing a crack addict. He played the driver in the Lufthansa heist in Goodfellas and the technician in charge of the visitors’ center in Jurassic Park. A former stand-in for Bill Cosby, he can be seen walking in the establishing shot of the Huxtables’ house on most episodes of the Cosby Show. FTP, name this actor known for Formula 51, Unbreakable, and his role as Jules Winnifield in Pulp Fiction. Answer: Samuel L. Jackson 86. He began his career in 1987 by directing the short film, It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books. The Artistic Director of the Austin Film Society, he was sued by his old classmates Bobby Wooderson, Andy Slater, and Randall Floyd for using their names without authorization in a 1993 film. Scheduled to direct an adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly, FTP name this independent Texan director of Suburbia, Slacker, Dazed & Confused, and The School of Rock. Answer: Richard Linklater 87. This film was made to counteract what the lead actor saw as left-wing bias in the film, High Noon. Claude Akins portrays Joe Burdette who gets arrested for murder by Sheriff John T. Chance of Presidio County and his deputy, El Borrachón. The only other member of Sheriff Chance’s posse is Stumpy, played by Walter Brennan, until Colorado, played by Ricky Nelson, joins up to defeat the man who killed his boss. Starring Angie Dickinson and Dean Martin, FTP name this 1959 John Wayne Western whose title comes from the Spanish words for “valiant river.” Answer: Rio Bravo 88. When the movie star dog, Rin Tin Tin, was dying, this actress cradled the dog in her arms. Ironically, she would only live ten years longer than Rin Tin Tin, dying of cerebral edema and uremic poisoning at age 26. Her sensuality and comedic timing were on display in the pre-Code films, Red Dust, Hell’s Angels, and Dinner at Eight, in addition to playing the title roles in Platinum Blonde and Bombshell. Mentioned after Betty Grable by Madonna in the song Vogue, FTP name this 1930s sex symbol played by Gwen Stefani in The Aviator. Answer: Jean Harlow (or Harlean Harlow Carpenter) 89. Sliding Doors and Run Lola Run both owe a debt to this director’s film, Blind Chance, which depicts the lifelong consequences that result from whether a man catches a train on time. From 1988 to 1989, he released a series of ten films for TV, collectively known as the Decalogue, which focus on the violation of each of the Ten Commandments. He ended his career making films in French, such as the Double Life of Veronique, but still continued to film in his native Poland. FTP, name this director best known for his Three Colors Trilogy: Blue, White, and Red. Answer: Krzysztof Kieslowski 90. Cathy Whitaker used to spend summers with “those Jewish boys” in summer stock productions, but now she’s content to be Mrs. Magnatech. Inspired by Fassbinder’s Ali: Fear Eats the Soul and Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows, Cathy reaches out to her gardener Raymond Deagan after learning of her husband Frank’s infidelity. What makes life difficult is that it’s 1957, Raymond is black, and Cathy’s husband is gay. Starring Dennis Haysbert and Dennis Quaid, FTP name this 2002 Todd Haynes tribute to 1950s melodrama starring Julianne Moore. Answer: Far From Heaven 91. In 1990, he retired from directing, because of his despair over the accidental death of actor Roy Kinnear during the filming of The Return of the Musketeers. He directed several sequels including Superman II, Superman III, and Butch & Sundance: The Early Years, but a better reflection of his style is his debut Oscar-nominated short, The Running, Jumping, & Standing Still Film. His two most famous films also feature a lot of running and jumping sequences, mostly of British musicians. FTP name this American expatriate who earned the title “The Fifth Beatle” for directing A Hard Day’s Night and Help! Answer: Richard “Dick” Lester 92. “The use of the Flag shall be consistently respectful.” “The treatment of bedrooms must be governed by good taste and delicacy.” “The technique of murder must be presented in a way that will not inspire imitation.” “Dances suggesting or representing sexual actions or indecent passions are forbidden.” “Sex perversion or any inference to it is forbidden.” Originally created in 1930 but not fully enforced until 1934, FTP what are these regulations that governed the moral content of American movies until 1967? Answer: the Motion Picture Production Code of 1930 (also accept the Hays Code) 93. The 1974 original was the directorial debut of a stuntman who died when he got crushed by a water tower while filming a chase scene. The original focuses on the insurance investigator, Maindrian Pace, while the remake focuses on Randall “Memphis” Raines. Both versions focus on an object named Eleanor, but in the original, Eleanor is a yellow 1973 Mach One Mustang, while in the remake, it’s a 1967 Shelby GT-500. Featuring a record-breaking 40 minute chase in the original, FTP, name this car chase film, starring Angelina Jolie and Nicholas Cage in the 2000 remake. Answer: Gone in 60 Seconds 94. For breakfast, he likes to pour a bottle of peach schnapps on a bowl of cereal. He briefly dated Betsy, a campaign worker for Senator Palatine, but Betsy dumped him after he took her to see Sometime Sweet Susan at a porno theater. He is later ironically celebrated as a hero after rescuing the underage Iris Steensma from drug-dealing pimp Sport, played by Harvey Keitel. An inspiration to assassin John Hinckley, Jr., FTP name this title character from Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver played by Robert DeNiro. Answer: Travis Bickle (either first name or last name is sufficient) 95. Johnnie Gray tried to enlist in the army, but they wouldn’t take him because he was more valuable as an employee of the Western & Atlantic Railroad. Based on the same events that inspired the Disney film, the Great Locomotive Chase, this film shows how Johnnie thwarts an 1862 sneak attack on Chattanooga, because of his singleminded devotion to rescuing the hostage, Annabelle Lee, and the title object. Featuring classic stunts with a handcar, a cannon, and a railroad engine, FTP what is this classic 1927 silent film comedy starring and directed by Buster Keaton? Answer: The General 96. It was the namesake of a television anthology series that began in 1948, but it did not produce any films until giving Ben Gazzara his first starring role in The Strange One in 1957. Founded by Elia Kazan as a replacement for the Group Theater, Lee Strasberg served as its Artistic Director in teaching the Stanislavski method from 1951 until 1982. Known for its graduates such as Joanne Woodward, Shelley Winters, and Marlon Brando, FTP name this acting school now associated with an interview show hosted by James Lipton. Answer: the Actor’s Studio 97. Franklin Roosevelt said that “All Democrats should see this film,” but the Nazis hated it so much that Goebbels ensured that it was the first film seized after the Germans captured Paris. Like the Great Escape, it features prisoners of war digging a tunnel, but it also has soldiers in drag singing “It’s A Long Way to Tipperary.” Marechal, played by Jean Gabin (guh-baahN), gets sent to a new prison camp after getting soldiers to sing Marseillaise after the French recapture Fort Douaumont, but escapes while Capt. De Boeldieu sets up a distraction. Starring Erich von Stroheim as Captain von Rauffenstein, FTP name this 1938 antiwar classic directed by Jean Renoir. Answer: Grand Illusion (or La Grande Illusion) 98. His real name is a tribute to four different American presidents, Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry, but he adapted his stage name from a vaudeville act he did with his partner Ed Lee. In the 1960s, he converted to Islam, possibly as penance for going bankrupt in 1947 and for playing stereotypical roles in Show Boat, Hearts of Dixie, and Harlem Follies of 1949. The first black actor to become a millionaire, FTP name this performer now synonymous with racial stereotyping of African-Americans. Answer: Stepin Fetchit 99. A wrist injury ended her dreams as a concert violinist, but producer Max Reinhardt made her a star after seeing her legs while she played the “musical saw.” Maximillian Schell directed a documentary devoted to her, but she would allow only her voice, not her face to be used in the film. A longtime collaborator with Josef von Sternberg, she appeared in Blonde Venus, Morocco, the Scarlet Empress, and the Blue Angel. FTP, who is this bisexual German actress who also appeared in Judgment at Nuremburg and the title role of Witness for the Prosecution? Answer: Marlene Dietrich (also accept Marie Magdelene Dietrich von Losch) 100. Harry Caul is a surveillance expert who likes to play the saxophone along with John Coltrane records. He is hired to tape the conversation of an illicit couple in a San Francisco park, but gets involved after hearing “He’d kill us if he got the chance,” a phrase exploited for maximum ambiguity by this film’s sound editor Walter Murch. Starring Teri Garr, Robert Duvall, Harrison Ford, and Gene Hackman, FTP name this 1974 film released by Francis Ford Coppola in between the first two parts of the Godfather trilogy. Answer: The Conversation 101. Its first recipient was Cecil B. DeMille’s Union Pacific in 1939, but it could not be awarded again until 1946, because of the Nazi occupation. Other winners include Gate of Hell, Brief Encounter, Open City, and The Wages of Fear, but rioting prevented it from being awarded in 1968. The first documentary to win it was Jacques Cousteau’s The Silent World in 1956, but the second documentary to win was much more controversial. FTP, name this award for the best film at the Cannes Film Festival, recently given to Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11. Answer: the Palme D’Or or the Golden Palm 102. Six years before Stanley Kubrick, he directed a film adaption of A Clockwork Orange that used a stationary camera. A frequent collaborator with Paul Morrissey, he has been portrayed by Mark Bringelson in the first Austin Powers movie, Crispin Glover in The Doors, and David Bowie in Basquiat. Fond of one-word titles, he directed Sleep, Haircut, Eat, and Empire, which filmed the Empire State Building for eight hours. FTP, name this experimental filmmaker better known for as a Pop Artist who made art out of Campbell Soup cans. Answer: Andy Warhol (also accept Warhola) 103. Under the name Lucille LeSueur, she posed for nude lesbian photos, one of which is reprinted in the book Hollywood Babylon. Co-stars complained she forced them to drink Pepsi, because she was married to Pepsi-Cola executive Alfred Steele from 1955 to 1959. Forced into horror movie roles, such as Circus of Terror and Strait-Jacket, as she got older, her appearance in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane deftly exploited her longtime feud with Bette Davis. FTP name this actress and camp icon who won an Oscar for Mildred Pierce, but may be better known for being portrayed by Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest. Answer: Joan Crawford 104. It’s not a Disney movie, but it features a sexy interracial duo of female bodyguards named Bambi and Thumper. In the film, the hero prevents a laser from destroying Washington D.C. by replacing a tape with the laser’s computer program with a cassette of World’s Greatest Marches, while slipping the real tape into the bikini of Tiffany Case. Crispin Glover’s dad plays a homosexual assassin, while sausage king Jimmy Dean plays the Howard Hughes-like Willard Whyte. Starring Sean Connery, FTP name this James Bond film focusing on the world’s hardest gemstones. Answer: Diamonds Are Forever 105. The 1991 film, The Rocketeer, alludes to a discredited theory by the author Charles Higham that this actor was a Nazi spy. Acquitted of statutory rape charges in 1942, he appeared opposite Ronald Reagan in the Western, Santa Fe Trail, but is better known for his work in the subgenre that includes The Dark Avenger, The Sea Hawk, and Captain Blood. FTP name this Australian-born actor and “king of the swashbucklers” who played the title role in the 1938 version of The Adventures of Robin Hood. Answer: Errol Flynn (also accept Theodore Thomas Flynn) 106. Two answers required. They both have pictures in the National Portrait Gallery in London, although one was born in the United States and the other was born in India. One received an Oscar nomination in 1961 for directing The Creation of Woman, but primarily worked as a producer thereafter. The other began as a documentary filmmaker, but the two released their first collaboration, The Householder, in 1963 with their frequent co-writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Bombay Talkie and Shakespeare Wallah took place in India, but many of their films deal with the British upper class. FTP name this producer-director team known for literary adaptations such as A Room with A View, The Remains of the Day, and Howards End. Answer: Ismail Merchant and James Ivory (accept Ismail Noormohamed Abdul Rehman for Ismail Merchant; prompt on partial answer)\ 107. Josef Peters cannot fulfill his girlfriend Leni’s request to impregnate her, because he does not want to reveal that he has no foreskin. In reality, Peters is really Solomon Perel masquerading as a member of the Hitler Youth so that he won’t die in the Holocaust, although he narrowly misses getting executed by Russian troops at the end of war. Based on a true story, FTP identify this 1990 foreign film directed by Agnieszka Holland and starring Julie Delpy whose title repeats the name of the second moon of Jupiter. Answer: Europa Europa (also accept Hitlerjunge Salomon) 108. Born with the last name Grumbach, he later adopted the name of his favorite American novelist. Neil Jordan directed The Good Thief as a remake of this director’s Bob the Gambler, while Quentin Tarantino has included gun standoffs in his films that pay homage to this director’s films, Le Doulos and Le Samourai. Once dubbed the “adopted father” of the French New Wave, FTP name this influential director of French crime thrillers who adopted the surname of the author of Moby Dick. Answer: Jean-Pierre Melville 109. “Tell The Women We’re Going,” “Will You Please Be Quiet Please?,” “They’re Not Your Husband,” and “So Much Water So Close To Home” are four of the short stories used as source material for this film. Lyle Lovett plays Andy Bitkower, a baker who makes prank phone calls to Ann Finnigan, played by Andie Macdowell, for failing to pick up her son Casey’s birthday cake after her son died. Julianne Moore won a role in the film after revealing to the director that she’s a natural redhead. Featuring Jack Lemmon and Tim Robbins, FTP name this 1993 Robert Altman film based on works by Raymond Carver. Answer: Short Cuts 110. His grandfather, Sir Michael Balcon, launched Alfred Hitchcock’s career at Ealing Studios, while his father-in-law was Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Arthur Miller. He played a skinhead in a gay love affair with a Pakistani in My Beautiful Laundrette and a womanizing doctor in the Unbearable Lightness of Being. His first two Oscar nominations came while working with director Jim Sheridan in portrayals as a man falsely identified as an Irish terrorist and as a painter with cerebral palsy. The son of a British poet laureate, FTP name this star of the Gangs of New York and My Left Foot. Answer: Daniel (Michael Blake) Day-Lewis (no prompt on Lewis) 111. Dr. Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate a signal sent by Sartorius, Snaut, and Gibarian, but when he arrives on the spaceship, Snaut informs him that Gibarian committed suicide. The title location is an ocean of plasma emitting radiation that leads Kelvin to hallucinate images of his dead wife Hari. Hari’s apparition attempts suicide by drinking liquid oxygen, but it won’t kill her, because she is not human. Based on a novel by Stanislaw Lem, FTP, what is this 1972 Russian sci-fi film by Andrei Tarkovsky recently remade by Steven Soderbergh? Answer: Solaris 112. A godchild of Hugh Hefner, her parents were 1970s porn stars who appeared together in the 1973 film, Road of Death, which may explain why they gave her permission to appear topless in an Oscar-winning film at the age of 16. As a child actress, she played Wilford Brimley’s granddaughter in an oatmeal commercial and Harrison Ford’s daughter in Patriot Games. Her younger brother is named Bolt, as in bolt of lightning, while her name is the feminine form of a Norse god. FTP name this actress who starred in Ghost World and American Beauty. Answer: Thora Birch (also accept Thora) 113. The protagonist is a section chief in the Office of Public Affairs who decides to drink himself to death at a saki bar after learning he has stomach cancer. An alcoholic novelist takes him out to a piano bar and pachinko parlor, but he has no will to live until he decides to drain a cesspool so that he can build a playground before he dies. The bureaucrat then dies peacefully while playing on a child’s swing set. This describes, FTP, what 1952 drama by Akira Kurosawa whose title derives from the Japanese words for “to live”? Answer: Ikiru 114. Pauline Kael criticized it in the essays, “Circles and Squares” and “Raising Kane.” Originally introduced to American readers in a 1962 essay in the magazine, Film Culture, its first European appearance was in the 1954 essay, “A Certain Tendency of French Cinema,” by Francois Truffaut. Associated with Cahiers du Cinema in France and Andrew Sarris in the United States, FTP name this theory derived from the French word for “author,” which states that a director is the primary influence on the content of a film. Answer: auteur theory (also accept auteurism or politique des auteurs) 115. The first feature-length film in this format was 1922’s The Power of Love, but it did not become widely popular until the release of Bwana Devil in 1952. Other examples include Kiss Me Kate, Hondo, Dial M for Murder, the 1953 version of House of Wax, and sequels for the horror films Jaws, the Amityville Horror, and Friday the 13th. Except for the second sequel to Spy Kids, this format has fallen out of favor outside of theme park attractions like Captain EO. Relying on glasses with colored lenses, FTP name this gimmick that allows objects to “pop out” of a movie screen. Answer: 3-D (or three-dimensional) 116. When Lars von Trier filmed Breaking the Waves, he told Emily Watson to base her performance on The Passion of Joan of Arc and this film. Like King Lear, it features the Fool, but in this film, the Fool is a tightrope walker who eats spaghetti on the high wire as a gimmick. The Fool teaches Gelsomina, played by Giulietta Masina, to play the trombone, which enrages the strongman Zampano, played by Anthony Quinn, who bought Gelsomina from her mother for 10,000 lira. The first Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film, FTP name this 1954 film that represented Federico Fellini’s break with neorealism. Answer: La Strada 117. In 1929, Janet Gaynor won a Best Actress Oscar for appearing in Seventh Heaven, Street Angel, and this film. Subtitled “A Song of Two Humans,” this film focuses on the Man who contemplates strangling The Wife in order to run off with The Woman from the City. Instead, the Man loves The Wife so much that he ends up rescuing her from a raging storm at the end of the film. FTP, name this silent film classic by F.W. Murnau that brought German Expressionism to Hollywood. 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. Biography/History archive -> In this issue archive -> United states archive -> - archive -> The Tropical Rainfall Potential (TRaP) Technique. 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