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This actress made her film debut as a music teacher in Louis Malle’s Au revoir les enfants and played the main character’s dead mother in The Secret Garden. American audiences may remember her as Wesley Snipes’ girlfriend in U.S. Marshals or as a tragic heroine murdered by Laurence Fishburne, but she is better known to cinephiles for portraying a woman who is led on by a puppeteer and glimpses her exact double in a Kraków bus window. In her most famous role, a poster with her image causes a car crash, and her attempt to care for an injured dog leads to a complex relationship with an embittered judge who spies on his neighbors. FTP, name this Swiss beauty who starred in Krzysztof Kieślowski’s The Double Life of Véronique and Three Colors: Red. ANSWER: Irène Jacob 30 H. G. Wells accused this film of “foolishness, cliché, platitude, and muddlement.” A discovery in Buenos Aires led to the July 1, 2008 announcement that a full-length version had been found. In 2002, 18 years after Giorgio Moroder compiled a strange soundtrack featuring Pat Benatar, Bonnie Tyler, Loverboy, Adam Ant, and Queen, its original Gottfried Huppertz score was restored. At the end, the “Heart Machine” is destroyed and Grot and Joh Fredersen come together, thus fulfilling the role of “heart” in uniting “hands” and “head.” The mad scientist Rotwang creates the sexy robot Maria, played by Brigitte Helm, in, FTP, what 1927 Fritz Lang classic of science fiction? ANSWER: Metropolis This movie’s final sequence is a series of increasingly closer shots of a tree painted on a brick wall. One character pridefully refuses to run a corporation’s new food division, while another gives up an affair when her lover’s wife falsely claims to be dying. A man states that “We are others,” and the effect of pop culture on our lives is shown by intercutting shots of Danielle Darrieux, Jean Gabin, and Jean Marais with the protagonists’ actions, while the role of instinct is illustrated by giant fighting rats. Paul MacLean’s triune brain theory is explained by the inventor of Thorazine, Dr. Henri Laborit, and the intertwined lives of a politician, an actress, and Gérard Depardieu are on display in, FTP, what brilliant 1980 psychology-based drama from Alain Resnais? ANSWER: Mon oncle d'Amérique One character in this film introduces himself by saying, “It is I ... Sidney Feldman!” The protagonist’s shrink attempts to comfort him with the words “I am rooted in the me who is on this adventure” after he learns that his childhood home has been torn down to make room for an Ultimart. He realizes that he is in need of “shakabuku,” or “a swift, spiritual kick in the head,” after meeting Debi. Unfortunately, both Felix and The Grocer are out to get him, and his secretary Marcella has already assigned him to kill Debi’s father. FTP, name this 1997 black comedy co-starring Hank Azaria and Minnie Driver in which John Cusack plays a hitman who attends his high school reunion. ANSWER: Grosse Pointe Blank In one role, this man’s recollection of what he was doing when Pearl Harbor was bombed causes him to be exposed as a German spy. In another, he hides $10,000 in his daughter’s doll and shares a cell with a guy who has “LOVE” and “HATE” tattooed on his fingers. In addition to the aforementioned appearances in Stalag 17 and The Night of the Hunter, he showed up in House on Haunted Hill and Men in Black II to spoof his job as host of Biography. In his most famous film, he asks such questions as, “What’s our vector, Victor?”, “Do you like movies about gladiators?”, and “Have you ever been to a Turkish prison?” FTP, name this actor who played Clarence Oveur in Airplane! and is best known for starring as Jim Phelps on Mission: Impossible. ANSWER: Peter Graves This director’s early works include Dragnet Girl, in which a gangster falls in love with an innocent typist, and a comedy about mischievous children called I Was Born, But ... Known for balanced compositions and breaking the 180-degree rule, as well as his use of “pillow shots,” he progressed through Late Spring, The End of Summer, and An Autumn Afternoon until by the time of the colorful Equinox Flower, Good Morning, and Floating Weeds he was barely moving the camera at all. His most famous movie climaxes with the question, “Isn’t life disappointing?” FTP, name this man who made 32 films with Chishu Ryu and 7 with Setsuko Hara, including Tokyo Story. ANSWER: Yasujiro Ozu 35 One villain in this film punishes a spy by sending him to Detroit. Another is described as “tough and ruthless,” while his companion is “rough and toothless.” An architect played by George Lazenby asks, “Whose reality? Yours or mine?”, Henry Gibson explains the three signs of death, including “a rotting smell,” and Donald Sutherland has a cameo as a clumsy waiter. “Rex Kramer, Danger Seeker” shouts a racial slur; let’s hope he doesn’t cross paths with Cleopatra Schwartz, a blaxploitation heroine married to a rabbi. Featuring “Catholic High School Girls in Trouble,” “That’s Armageddon!”, “A Fistful of Yen,” and many other classic sketches, this is, FTP, what 1977 John Landis-directed comedy from the writing team that later made Airplane!? ANSWER: The Kentucky Fried Movie (accept “A Fistful of Yen” before “George Lazenby”) This composer scored such movies as In a Lonely Place, The Sniper, and the dialogue-less Dementia. Director Marcel L’Herbier incited a riot at one of his concerts in order to shoot a sequence for 1924’s L’Inhumaine. Author of the autobiography Bad Boy of Music, he pioneered frequency hopping and holds a joint patent with Hedy Lamarr. Thanks to Paul Lehrman, his most famous work was finally joined with the film it was meant to accompany in 2001; that film, presented by “Charlot,” repeats a shot of a woman climbing stairs three times. FTP, name this man who collaborated with Dudley Murphy, Man Ray, and Fernand Léger on Ballet Mécanique. ANSWER: George Antheil Several prominent thespians signed a petition to prevent the producer of this film, Lord Lew Grade, from over-dubbing the lead actor’s voice. The protagonist calls an American a “long streak of paralyzed piss” and tells him, “No wonder you got an energy crisis your side of the water!” He strings his enemies up in an abattoir and shouts at an employee, “Eric’s been blown to smithereens, Colin’s been carved up, and I’ve got a bomb in me casino, and you say ‘nothing unusual’?” His last line is, “‘Ere, ‘old up, where’s Victoria?”, right before he realizes that Pierce Brosnan is holding a gun on him; the movie then ends with an extended close-up of his face as he waits to be killed. FTP, name this 1980 gangster classic starring Helen Mirren and Bob Hoskins and set during the Easter holiday. ANSWER: The Long Good Friday The only performances by sibling child actors Kathy and Thomas Chelimsky were opposite this actress, in two different movies. Alec Guinness flirts with her in the frame story for The Lavender Hill Mob and her husband directed her as Rima the Bird Girl in Green Mansions. The relationship between her character and Mark Wallace is traced in Frederic Raphael’s famously non-linear script for Two for the Road, and after a nine-year screen hiatus she returned to star as half of the title couple in Robin and Marian. She was a thief opposite Peter O’Toole and a lesbian opposite Shirley MacLaine, while her last role came in Steven Spielberg’s Always. FTP, name this portrayer of a blind woman in the thriller Wait Until Dark who sang “Moon River” as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. ANSWER: Audrey Hepburn (prompt on “Hepburn”) (accept “Donen” or “Stanley Donen” before “this actress”) One member of this family made her movie debut as the infant child of her father’s character in In Which We Serve; she later starred in Billy Wilder’s Avanti! and won an Emmy for QB VII. Another appeared in the film version of her mother’s novel Whistle Down the Wind and changed her image with a modest nude scene in The Family Way. Their dad was Pip in David Lean’s Great Expectations and cameo-ed in Gandhi, Bean, Bright Young Things, and as Old Norway in Hamlet. One of the daughters is known for Nanny and the Professor, while the show that became Saved By the Bell was originally a vehicle for the other. FTP, give the last name shared by the woman who portrays Tabitha Lenox on Passions, the actor who won an Oscar as the mute village idiot in Ryan’s Daughter, and the Polyanna actress who played a pair of twins out to reunite their parents in The Parent Trap. ANSWER: Mills (accept “Juliet Mills,” “John Mills,” or “Hayley Mills”) 40 STOP Among the names this actor has used are George Spelvin, as “The Professor” in a movie version of Conrad’s The Secret Agent, and Marty Fromage, as a mime instructor in Shakes the Clown. He gets fired by his boss’ parrot in The Survivors and calls the protagonist a “termite ... in a shitty suit” as a profane doctor who explains what “karma” is in Dead Again. Other roles include a wacky obstetrician in Nine Months and a Russian musician who is told, “There’s a men’s room down the hall” when he announces that he wants to defect in a Bloomingdale’s in Moscow on the Hudson. He was memorable as the title characters in the Robert Altman musical Popeye and The World According to Garp, but “it’s not your fault” if, FTP, you can’t name this Oscar winner for Good Will Hunting. ANSWER: Robin Williams
ANSWER: Stanford University (accept “The Spirit of Stanford” on early buzz; prompt on “Palo Alto”) In this movie, Richard Attenborough, as coach of the Oxford rowing team, accepts a bribe to ram Cambridge during a race. Laurence Harvey appears as a Shakespearean actor who bares his “bodkin,” while John Cleese portrays the manager of Sotheby’s and watches in horror as the main character cuts the nose off of an original Rembrandt. The climax takes place aboard the title cruise liner, where Captain Klaus is attacked by a random gorilla, a vampire portrayed by Christopher Lee stalks the halls, Roman Polanski is serenaded in the bar by a cabaret singer who turns out to be Yul Brynner in drag, and the boat is revealed to be powered by a galley of topless women led by Raquel Welch as the “Mistress of the Whip.” Featuring Ringo Starr as Guy Grand’s heir, this is, FTP, what 1969 Peter Sellers-starring film of a Terry Southern novel for which Paul McCartney penned “Come and Get It”? ANSWER: The Magic Christian This woman played characters sharing her first name in two early films, Roman Polanski’s Cul-de-sac and Stanley Donen’s Two for the Road. She received Golden Globe nods as George Segal’s ex-wife, who makes “Le Bombe Richelieu,” in Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? and as Albert Finney’s ex-wife in Under the Volcano. In addition to roles as a stewardess in Airport and a countess in Murder on the Orient Express, in 1968 she appeared in The Detective and was the girlfriend of another detective in a movie with a famous car chase. Memorable as “Miss Goodthighs” in 1967’s Casino Royale, she portrayed a British actress – what a stretch! – in François Truffaut’s Day for Night. FTP, name this sex symbol who turned heads by swimming in a wet T-shirt in 1977’s The Deep. ANSWER: Jacqueline Bisset In Violent Saturday, this actor takes a pitchfork in the back from an Amish farmer played by Ernest Borgnine; he later starred as a hobo who faces off against Borgnine’s sadistic railway conductor in Emperor of the North Pole, and both were baddies in a classic movie about anti-Japanese prejudice. Hickey in John Frankenheimer’s film of The Iceman Cometh, he sang “Happy Birthday” at a funeral in a comedic turn as a drunken gunfighter that inexplicably won an Oscar, but more typical performances saw him punch a man in the crotch during a nightclub fight and throw a cup of scalding-hot coffee into a woman’s face, while other Western roles feature his improbable #1 UK hit “Wand’rin’ Star” and his title character getting shot by John Wayne, not James Stewart. FTP, name this Bad Day at Black Rock and The Big Heat villain known as the tough-guy anti-heroes of Point Blank and The Dirty Dozen. ANSWER: Lee Marvin 45 This actor stated that “premature ejaculation means always having to say you’re sorry” as Dr. Hugo Zuckerbrot in Billy Wilder’s last movie, Buddy Buddy. In one film, he proclaims, “I am the only free man aboard this train. The rest of you are cattle!”, while another cast him as a hunchback who gets a match struck on the back of his neck. Also known for portrayals of Jack the Ripper, Dracula, and the Marquis de Sade, he is better remembered as a conquistador in search of El Dorado and an Irishman whose love of opera leads him to transport a steamship over a mountain in the Peruvian jungle. FTP, name this star of Woyzeck and Nosferatu the Vampyre who worked with his “best fiend” Werner Herzog on Aguirre: The Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo. ANSWER: Klaus Kinski This man began his scoring career on several movies starring pop star Adam Faith, for whom he was a manager. He worked with Alan Jay Lerner on an unsuccessful stage musical based on Lolita and penned the theme for the Tony Curtis-Roger Moore adventure series The Persuaders! Propellerheads did a famous remix of one of his best pieces, and he earned Academy Awards for both the title song and score of Born Free, as well as the scores for The Lion in Winter, Out of Africa, and Dances with Wolves. He has not seen a penny of royalties from the most famous work he claims to have written, as it is credited to Monty Norman. FTP, name this English composer best known for On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Goldfinger, and 9 more James Bond films. ANSWER: John Barry This man played “Lt. McDuff” in an adaptation of Macbeth set in the fast food industry, Scotland, Pa. In one film, he strips down to boxer shorts while dancing on a table and lip-synching to “Let’s Misbehave”; in another, he informs Anthony Zerbe that “the ice ... IS GONNA BREAK!!!”; in still another, he talks about his desire to drive into oncoming traffic. A more recent movie saw him complain about an “uncomfortable piece of metal.” His gangster roles include Pennies from Heaven, King of New York, Suicide Kings, and Kangaroo Jack, while he was a psychic in The Dead Zone and a psycho Bond villain in A View to a Kill. FTP, name this co-star of Annie Hall, Pulp Fiction, and Catch Me if You Can whose Russian roulette skills won him an Oscar for The Deer Hunter. ANSWER: Christopher Walken The band Sparks cameos during this movie’s opening scene, which was shot at Ocean View Park. Written by the creators of Columbo, it was the third film, after Earthquake and Midway, to employ “Sensurround.” The protagonist repeatedly fails to quit smoking, and at the climax he recognizes the villain’s voice during a live radio interview. In addition to Steve Guttenberg’s bit part as an FBI agent, Helen Hunt appears as the main character’s daughter and Susan Strasberg plays his wife, while Henry Fonda portrays his boss. Partially filmed at Kings Dominion and Magic Mountain, this is, FTP, what 1977 George Segal-starring suspense thriller featuring Timothy Bottoms as a bomber who targets the title type of amusement park ride? ANSWER: Rollercoaster This director’s last movie, released three years after his death, earned Jessica Lange an Oscar. The co-founder of Woodfall Films, he helmed Christopher Isherwood and Terry Southern’s adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s The Loved One and made Joseph Andrews in an attempt to repeat the success of his most popular work. In one of his films, Jo is impregnated by a Black sailor and befriends a homosexual, while in another, Colin stops just short of the finish line. Albert Finney made his screen debut as one of Archie Rice’s sons in this man’s version of John Osborne’s The Entertainer, while another Osborne play, Look Back in Anger, became his debut feature. FTP, name this A Taste of Honey filmmaker who cast Finney in an Osborne-scripted comedy with a famously erotic eating scene, Tom Jones. ANSWER: Tony Richardson 50 This man’s less-remembered performances include Noel Airman in Marjorie Morningstar, a French soldier stuck in a Nazi prison in The Cross of Lorraine, Senator Charles Edwards in North and South, and the lead in a short-lived TV series based on Going My Way. He directed Jackie Gleason as a mute who befriends a young girl in the Chaplinesque Gigot, while The Cheyenne Social Club and Hello, Dolly! are among his other helming credits. He spoofed himself as Pinky Benson in What a Way to Go! and re-used the name of his Cover Girl character for the roller-disco camp classic Xanadu. Jerry the mouse joined Vera-Ellen, Leslie Caron, Cyd Charisse, and Debbie Reynolds among the screen partners of, FTP, what filmmaker, choreographer, and rain-soaked dancer? ANSWER: Gene Kelly One movie based on this story centers on a crime-scene photographer who dreams about being impaled by a mob during the Middle Ages and is exposed after a detective asks for his autograph. In another adaptation, there is a highly entertaining wine-tasting duel between Peter Lorre and Vincent Price. Two more titans of the horror genre faced off in a 1934 film version that saw American honeymooners trapped in the home of sinister architect Hjalmar Poelzig. Dario Argento’s segment of Two Evil Eyes, one of Roger Corman’s Tales of Terror, and an Edgar Ulmer-directed classic starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff were all based on, FTP, what short story in which the title character, Pluto, is sealed with a murder victim inside a wall, a work of Edgar Allen Poe? ANSWER: “The Black Cat” Jim Dale portrayed this man in a movie based on his memoir, Adolf Hitler – My Part in His Downfall. He played the character of “Eccles” in several early films, including The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn, and he is often credited with the idea of ending Dr. Strangelove with “We’ll Meet Again.” Improbably cast as the husband of Raquel Welch in The Three Musketeers, he reunited with his most famous collaborator as a traffic warden in The Magic Christian and made cameo appearances in History of the World: Part 1 and Life of Brian. FTP, name this British comedy legend and host of Q best known for starring on radio’s The Goon Show with Peter Sellers. ANSWER: Spike Milligan This film features the repeated adage “from the compass to the ship” and a dispute over whether or not a photo was taken by Frank. The lead actress’ brother composed the score. One character appears to be obsessed with target shooting and the game Nim, while the never-named protagonist makes reference to a “structure of another century.” Near the end, the camera approaches a lady with widespread arms several times, and one famous shot shows trees without shadows. Set in an “enormous, luxurious, baroque, lugubrious hotel, where corridors succeed endless corridors,” this is, FTP, what movie in which a man and a woman may or may not have made plans to run away at the title Czech town, a 1961 work directed by Alain Resnais and written by Alain Robbe-Grillet? ANSWER: Last Year at Marienbad (or L’Année dernière à Marienbad) Red Buttons appears in this film as an MP who performs an impression of the lead actor. One character cites an old Russian proverb – “Go West, young man!” – while another is tortured by being made to listen to “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini.” After they watch an attractive woman perform a sexy striptease to the “Sabre Dance,” Peripetchikoff, Borodenko, and Mishkin try to get her, but instead they are sent a man in a dress. At the end, C.R. MacNamara is forced to return to Atlanta despite turning young radical Otto Piffl into a presentable husband for Southern belle Scarlett Hazletine. Communists, ex-Nazis, and the Pepsi Corporation are among the threats faced by James Cagney in, FTP, what fast-paced Berlin-set 1961 Cold War comedy from Billy Wilder? ANSWER: One, Two, Three 55 The worst performance in this movie is given by Jeremy Black in the title role. Steve Guttenberg plays a young man whose death sets the plot in motion; more impressive casting choices include Denholm Elliott as a newspaper editor, Rosemary Harris as a flirtatious widow, Michael Gough as a hanging victim, Uta Hagen as a key source of info, and Bruno Ganz as a scientist who explains the central concept. When he sees that several 65-year-old civil servants with much younger wives have recently died, Ezra Lieberman’s investigation takes him to rural Pennsylvania, where he is saved when a pack of Dobermans is loosed on the villain. Starring James Mason, Laurence Olivier, and Gregory Peck as Dr. Josef Mengele, this is, FTP, what 1978 thriller based on Ira Levin’s novel about Hitler clones? ANSWER: The Boys from Brazil This man shot Julie Christie several times – as lead cameraman on François Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451, John Schlesinger’s Far from the Madding Crowd, and Richard Lester’s Petulia. He may have first associated red with horror while working with Roger Corman on The Masque of the Red Death; in his most famous film, that color is excluded from the frame at all but a few key moments. In addition to disturbing generations of children with a movie based on Roald Dahl’s The Witches, he cast his son Lucien and Jenny Agutter as two kids stranded in the outback in Walkabout. Leonard Maltin described his best-known work as being “[h]ighlighted by [a] memorably steamy love scene and violent climax” – as far as I know, those aren’t in the same scene. Death in Venice occurs via a serial-killing dwarf at the end of a 1973 horror classic by, FTP, what British director of Don’t Look Now? ANSWER: Nicolas Roeg Promoted as “the film Rod Stewart doesn’t want you to see,” this movie contains a song with the lyrics, “I’ll catch a rainbow from the sky and tie the ends together.” One actor performs “A Tinker of Rye” by Paul Giovanni, and the last scene ends with a rendition of “Sumer Is Icumen In.” The protagonist is shocked by a sexually explicit chant done by children as they dance around a maypole; later, he dresses up as Punch in order to rescue Rowan Morrison from Lord Summerisle, only to discover that, as a fool who has the power of a king and is a virgin, he will make for the perfect sacrifice. Written by Anthony Shaffer and directed by Robin Hardy, this is, FTP, what 1973 “Citizen Kane of horror films” starring Edward Woodward and Christopher Lee? ANSWER: The Directory: archive archive -> Tr-41. 4-03-05-024 Telecommunications archive -> Gary C. 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