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After one character runs into a pole at the beginning of this movie, he hears a speech taken from David Goodis’ Nightfall, though the film itself is based on another Goodis novel, Down There. Momo talks about the joy of wearing his sister’s underwear, and there is a famous extreme close-up of a finger about to press a buzzer. After the protagonist learns that his wife slept with Lars Schmeel, she jumps out of a window and he goes to live with his low-life brothers Chico and Richard. He accidentally stabs Plyne during an argument, then finds out that Fido has been kidnapped, leading to a tragic shootout outside a cabin in the snow. In the end, he returns to the title musical profession. FTP, name this 1960 work starring Charles Aznavour, the second feature made by François Truffaut. ANSWER: Shoot the Piano Player (or Tirez sur le pianiste) This filmmaker collaborated with four historians on the 2003 book Who Murdered Chaucer? One of his movies was based on the real-life experiences of Cynthia Payne and starred Julie Walters as a brothel owner; another featured Tim Robbins as a Viking who wants to set aside his warlike ways. He also directed himself as Toad in a 1996 live-action version of The Wind in the Willows and authored the screenplay for the Jim Henson fantasy Labyrinth. In his most famous solo directorial work, he appears as a character who calls the title individual “a very naughty boy”; that character, Mandy Cohen, is the protagonist’s mother. Also memorable as Mr. Creosote, the morbidly obese vomiter in Meaning of Life, this is, FTP, what Oxford-educated Monty Python alumnus who helmed Life of Brian? ANSWER: Terry Jones Shortly before he died, this man played Dr. Stockmann in a 1978 film of An Enemy of the People. He starred as a rebellious soldier who ultimately sacrifices his life in Hell Is for Heroes and inspired a George Lucas character as Nevada Smith. Peter Lorre almost took his thumb in a wager in a Roald Dahl-scripted episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, while he had no better luck gambling as The Cincinnati Kid. His only Oscar nod came as a naval engineer aboard a gunboat in The Sand Pebbles, and his first prominent part was as a teenager who faces off against an all-consuming alien life-form in The Blob. FTP, name this actor who also had title roles as a convict in Papillon, a thief in The Thomas Crown Affair, and a cop in Bullitt, and who someday will jump that fence in The Great Escape! ANSWER: Steve McQueen 90 This critic wrote of the Going My Way sequel The Bells of St. Mary’s, “Ingrid Bergman replaces Barry Fitzgerald and, for my money, cannot compete with him in sex appeal.” He called Olivier’s Henry V one of cinema’s “rare great works of art” and famously used “haunting, handsome, almost beautiful, yet ... irreducibly funny” to describe Buster Keaton’s “Great Stone Face.” Jeffrey Couchman’s article “Credit Where Credit Is Due” vindicated him by showing that he had in fact penned a coherent screenplay for The Night of the Hunter, while Peter Viertel’s book White Hunter, Black Heart deals with a rewrite of his Oscar-nominated script for The African Queen. FTP, name this acclaimed reviewer for Time and The Nation who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for A Death in the Family. ANSWER: James Agee This woman played Lola, one of Timothy Dalton’s girlfriends, in the 1992 British telefilm Framed; other roles include a devoted fan who sneaks into John Lennon’s hotel room in Love Can Be Hazardous to Your Health and a WW2-era actress with whom Josef Goebbels falls in love in The Girl of Your Dreams. Recipient of an Oscar nod as a lady whose husband is stabbed to death by her 14-year-old daughter, she was the obsessively religious Pagan Lace in Masked & Anonymous, the protagonist’s prostitute mother in Live Flesh, and George Jung’s bitchy ex-wife in Blow. She attracted the attention of rumormongers by appearing in a 2008 music video alongside Mía Maestro and her own sister Monica; gossip also sprang up around her relationship with her Bandidas co-star, Salma Hayek, and her performance in a Woody Allen film. FTP, name this Spanish star of Volver and Vicky Cristina Barcelona. ANSWER: Penélope Cruz This man’s first feature, The Falls, is a 92-part mockumentary about the world after a “Violent Unexpected Event” and contains an early mention of his recurring character Tulse Luper. One of his most recent movies cast The Office’s Martin Freeman as Rembrandt, and a controversy over Étienne-Louis Boullée is at the center of his The Belly of an Architect. “Bees in the Trees” and “Dawn Card Castles” are among the games Smut describes in a film by him containing the numbers from 1 to 100 in sequence that shows three women named Cissie Colpitts murdering their husbands, Drowning by Numbers, while John Gielgud performs nearly all of The Tempest in his Prospero’s Books. Known for visual spectacle and copious use of nudity, this is, FTP, what British director of The Pillow Book, whose most notorious work sees crime lord Albert Spica take revenge on his wife, her lover, and a cook? ANSWER: Peter Greenaway This woman played a femme fatale who takes a tumble out of a window in the noir Dark Passage. Douglas Sirk cast her alongside Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson in All That Heaven Allows and Magnificent Obsession, while her four Oscar-nominated roles include a baroness in Mrs. Parkington, the aunt of a deaf-mute girl in Johnny Belinda, and a sinister housekeeper in Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte. She describes the title character as the product of “an unfortunate union which we in the family prefer to forget” in Jane Eyre, the fourth film she made with members of the Mercury Theatre. FTP, name this portrayer of the protagonists’ aunt and mother, respectively, in Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons and Citizen Kane, whom you may know better as Bewitched’s Endora. ANSWER: Agnes Moorehead A photojournalist in this film is played by the man who would later make the Oscar-nominated documentary Winged Migration. One protagonist almost never takes off his sunglasses, even indoors, and Marcel Bozzuffi and Renato Salvatori appear as Vago and Yago. At the end, a door is deliberately locked so that several indictees can be paraded in front of the press. Beginning with a disclaimer stating that any resemblance to actual persons or events is “DELIBERATE,” it features a score that was smuggled out while composer Mikis Theodorakis was under house arrest in the country where it is set. Based on real events surrounding the assassination of Gregoris Lambrakis, this is, FTP, what 1969 Franco-Algerian political thriller directed by Costa-Gavras? ANSWER: Z (reluctantly accept the pronunciation “zed”) 95 Leo McKern can be seen guest-starring on this program during a brief shot in The Matrix. David Tomblin, who directed several episodes, inserted a bust with a concealed camera and whirring eye-lights into The Adventures of Baron Munchausen as a deliberate homage. The plot of Cast Away may have been inspired by the episode “Many Happy Returns,” and a red-and-white awning visible in The Truman Show is another tribute. Some have claimed that the Architect’s mention of five predecessors to Neo in The Matrix Reloaded references this show, while others argue that its star’s use of “Do svidaniya!” in Ice Station Zebra is a translation of his catchphrase, “Be seeing you!” FTP, name this cult ‘60s spy-fi series in which Patrick McGoohan played Number Six. ANSWER: The Prisoner One character in this film is the son of a Roman Catholic and an Orthodox Jew who separated two hours after marriage. Another states that a room is filled with “empty people” and is scolded, “Say your goddamn pronouns!” Dick notes that Jamesir Bensonmum is blind, to which Dora replies, “Don’t let him park the car,” and Miss Withers is told, “We’re going to have a lovely murderpoo.” At the end, the deaf maid Yetta turns out to be Rita, or, since she has ten fingers and no pinkies, perhaps she’s been Lionel Twain all along. Starring Truman Capote, Maggie Smith, Alec Guinness, David Niven, Peter Falk, Peter Sellers, and many others, this is, FTP, what 1976 Neil Simon-scripted spoof in which the world’s greatest detectives gather to solve an unsolvable mystery? ANSWER: Murder By Death Toward the end of the film in which he appears, this character says, “Rotten kids! You work your life out ...” He criticizes others for listening to “fairy tales” and is willing to bet $5,000 that he would remember what movies he saw. He asks, “What is this? Love Your Underprivileged Brother Week or something?”, and, after admitting that he’d like to “pull the switch,” is called a “sadist.” He then threatens to kill the man who called him that, thus fatally undermining his argument. At the end, he rips up a photograph of his son and votes “not guilty” like all the rest. FTP, name this recalcitrant juror portrayed by Lee J. Cobb in the classic 1957 drama 12 Angry Men. ANSWER: Juror #3 This man dubbed the lead character, Kim, in the English-language version of the Korean high-school martial-arts flick Volcano High. He says that, “The greatest con [ego] ever pulled was making you believe that he is you” as Avi in Guy Ritchie’s Revolver. After his screen debut in Hollywood Homicide, he played the owner of a comic book store on an episode of The Shield and performed the songs “Chronomentrophobia,” “She Lives in My Lap,” and “PJ & Rooster” in another movie. Also memorable as the guy who says “Don’t give me no gun!” in Be Cool, the voice of Elwyn the Crow in Charlotte’s Web, and one of the titular Four Brothers who seek revenge after their foster mother is killed, this is, FTP, what actor who starred as Percival in Idlewild, opposite his OutKast cohort Big Boi? ANSWER: André Benjamin (prompt on “André” or “André 3000”) This man played a writer consulted during an investigation in Maximilian Schell’s 1975 film End of the Game, which was based on his own novel and starred Martin Ritt as a detective whose assistant frames a master criminal for murder. One of his plays inspired not only a 1964 movie starring Ingrid Bergman and Anthony Quinn but also Djibril Diop Mambéty’s 1992 Wolof classic Hyenas and the 1988 telefilm Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis. He scripted 1958’s It Happened in Broad Daylight, in which Heinz Rühmann plays an obsessed policeman who uses a young girl as bait to catch a killer, but, dissatisfied with the ending, he then adapted it into a more pessimistic novel that became the basis for a 2001 drama directed by Sean Penn and starring Jack Nicholson. FTP, name this Swiss author of The Judge and His Hangman, The Pledge, and The Visit. ANSWER: Friedrich Dürrenmatt 100 This movie was the film debut of both Carla Gugino and Tori Spelling, and the protagonist’s daughter is played by future Rilo Kiley frontwoman Jenny Lewis. One character’s father is a dictator named “Bong Bong.” The heroine is married to the “Muffler Man,” and in one scene she looks at an enormous pile of shoes and says, “This one ... and this one ... out. I’ll take the rest!” Despite opposition from Velda Plendor, she camps out in a hotel and tells a chilling story about a visit to Cristophe’s salon that climaxes with the line, “He PERMED me!!” Phyllis Nefler leads some Wilderness Girls in, FTP, what 1989 comedy starring Shelley Long? ANSWER: Troop Beverly Hills This work’s final image is of a man lying flat on his back in bed and singing “Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life.” The protagonist considers writing about a banana, but then gets distracted by a woman dropping off a costume, the girls at Miss Cecily’s party, and a creepy knife-man named Woland. In the end, he feels remorse over killing a cockroach and states, “I never knew I had so many friends!” Thus, the title character not only gets inspiration for his story, but learns the true meaning of Christmas. Written and directed by Peter Capaldi and starring Richard E. Grant, this is, FTP, what Oscar-winning 1993 mash-up of a Frank Capra film and the life of the author of “The Metamorphosis”? ANSWER: Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life In one of this director’s movies, a teenager shoots a documentary about rich white kids who tragically attempt to ape the “gangsta” lifestyle, and Anne Hathaway appears topless. Niece of a co-author of the play that became Casablanca, she more recently filmed a student production of High School Musical for the Disney Channel. The “Winterfilm Collective” was formed by her and 18 others for a work about Vietnam Veterans Against the War, while Woody Allen’s jazz band is the subject of her Wild Man Blues. Winner of an Oscar for 1990’s American Dream, which spotlighted Hormel Foods, she profiled the Dixie Chicks controversy in Shut Up & Sing and is most famous for documenting a Kentucky miners’ strike. FTP, name this maker of Havoc and Harlan County U.S.A. ANSWER: Barbara Kopple This man directed Merchant/Ivory’s film of The Ballad of the Sad Cafe. The author of highly respected biographies of Charles Laughton and Orson Welles, he has played Charles Dickens several times, including on Dr. Who. His movie debut came as Mozart’s friend Schikaneder in Amadeus; other roles include a consul with urine-stained pants in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, a reverend who praises the heroine’s piano playing and watches as naked young men cavort in water in A Room with a View, and the Master of Revels, who accuses a woman of being a woman, in Shakespeare in Love. FTP, name this respected British actor who may be best remembered as Gareth, the gay friend whose death brings all of the characters together, in Four Weddings and a Funeral. ANSWER: Simon Callow One character in this movie is told to “squeeze,” an action compared to milking a goat. Another tells stories with the ironic punch lines “So far, so good” and “It seemed to be a good idea at the time.” An old man states that “bullets cost money,” and the villain philosophizes, “If God did not want them sheared, He would not have made them sheep.” At the end, Chico stays with a girl while Chris and Vin ride off into the sunset. Brad Dexter and Horst Buchholz are among the group who face off against Calvera at the behest of villagers in, FTP, what 1960 John Sturges Western starring Robert Vaughn, Steve McQueen, and Yul Brynner, a remake of a Kurosawa classic? ANSWER: The Magnificent Seven 105 This film begins with Khanna signaling a car to run over Asha’s uncle, after which he is shot and the title spirals out of his lifeless eye. Mahmood plays a butler who sings about his dreams after he is rejected by Miss Kitty. Seven people win a vacation in a contest, but after their airplane makes an emergency landing, they end up trapped on an isolated island. The plot is a blatant rip-off of Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians – though these aren’t the kind of Indians she meant – but more famously, a band identified as “Ted Lyons and His Cubs” plays an upbeat song while several dancers wear masks resembling those of Robin on the Batman TV series. The swinging number “Jaan Pehechan Ho,” seen at the beginning of Ghost World, originates in, FTP, what 1965 Bollywood thriller? ANSWER: Gumnaam The protagonists of this film notice that a woman playing the cello in a restaurant is also the organist at a movie theater. At one point, a trailer announces, “Flames of Passion coming shortly!” Dolly Messiter’s chattering prevents the main characters from telling each other goodbye, and in the final scene Fred says, “Thank you for coming back to me.” Eileen Joyce’s recording of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 is prominently featured on the soundtrack. Laura first meets Alec when she gets a cinder in her eye, and at the end she considers throwing herself in front of a train. Based on Noel Coward’s Still Life, this is, FTP, what classic romantic drama starring Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson as unconsummated lovers, a 1945 work of David Lean? ANSWER: Brief Encounter This movie’s subtitle, “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door,” was removed in the US for copyright reasons. The protagonist agrees to find out about “beans” from a mysterious Arab, only to discover that “Rasheed” is actually Dr. Mendelo al-Hedia, the creator of the film’s MacGuffin. The villain is aided by hacker Lee Sampson and tracked by his ex-lover Electra Ovilo, to whom he transferred a vaccine for the deadly virus that he threatens to release on Mars. A 300 million woolong bounty is offered for the capture of Vincent Volaju, which sets Faye, Spike, and Jet Black after him in, FTP, what 2001 Shinichirô Watanabe feature spun off from a popular Japanimation series? ANSWER: Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (or Kaubôi bibappu: Tengoku no tobira or Cowboy Bebop: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door) This woman’s appearances in 1943’s Hostages and the 1997 Dostoyevsky adaptation The Gambler were her only film credits after 1938, though she also guest-starred on a 1984 episode of The Love Boat. She made her American debut opposite William Powell in 1935’s Escapade and won her most famous part despite a sustained campaign by Anna May Wong. In one role, she has a telephone conversation congratulating the title character, played by Walter Pidgeon, on his marriage to Billie Burke; in another, she finds a bag of pearls, but is passed over by her husband in favor of Lotus and finally dies after a locust swarm. FTP, name this German actress whose performances as Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld and O-Lan in The Good Earth netted her back-to-back Oscars. ANSWER: Luise Rainer This man’s performance in Q Planes inspired the character of John Steed in The Avengers, and he was hilarious as a boring eccentric in The Wrong Box. In a film based on Graham Greene’s “The Basement Room,” he played a butler suspected of killing his wife, while in a 1962 adaptation of a famous stage play he portrayed a retired actor who asks, “What the hell was it I wanted to buy?” In another movie, he is God, and when a young boy asks him about death, he responds, “Ah, I think it’s something to do with free will.” He won several awards for starring in David Lean’s The Sound Barrier and was Uncle Alex in Lean’s Dr. Zhivago, while his two Oscar nominations came as Olivia de Havilland’s tyrannical father in The Heiress and the Sixth Earl of Greystoke in a Tarzan epic. FTP, name this third member of the 20th century’s trinity of British thespians, alongside Olivier and Gielgud. ANSWER: Sir Ralph Richardson 110 This man’s screen debut was as a teenage rocket scientist in the film of Evelyn Waugh’s The Loved One. He spoofed Elisha Cook in The Cheap Detective and voiced The Penguin in Batman: The Animated Series, while his recent role as “Lord Harmony” in The Princess Diaries 2 referenced his other, more famous career. He played a sinister music producer who strikes a Faustian bargain with Winslow Leach in Phantom of the Paradise, for which he also penned several original songs. His two most famous movie tunes speak of “Love, soft as an easy chair” and “The lovers, the dreamers, and me.” FTP, name this portrayer of Little Enos in the Smokey and the Bandit series who wrote “The Rainbow Connection” for The Muppet Movie and composed with Barbra Streisand the Oscar-winning “Evergreen.” ANSWER: Paul Williams John Lynch appears in this movie as Paul Hill, a real-life figure who is married to Robert Kennedy’s daughter Courtney. At the climax, a photograph of an old bum named Charlie Burke is held up as proof of misconduct. In one affecting scene, lit pieces of paper are thrown into a courtyard to show solidarity after the death of Giuseppe. Detective Pavis browbeats a confession from the main character, leading to the imprisonment of the Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven. Emma Thompson and Pete Postlethwaite earned Oscar nominations for acting in, FTP, what 1993 drama based on Gerry Conlon’s autobiographical book Proved Innocent, a Jim Sheridan film starring Daniel Day-Lewis as a man wrongfully accused of being an IRA terrorist? ANSWER: In the Name of the Father One character in this movie is an arsonist played by Thayer David who meets his clients in a porno theater. In the last scene, the protagonist attempts to join a Little League game and is told, “You can’t play with us, mister!” After Fred Mirrell has a heart attack while with a prostitute, Harry Stoner is overcome by war flashbacks during a fashion show and falls into the arms of a young hitchhiker who knows nothing about his generation. Jack Gilford was Oscar-nominated as a fellow clothing executive who joins Harry in a plot to burn down their warehouse for insurance money. FTP, name this 1973 John G. Avildsen film that won the Best Actor Academy Award for Jack Lemmon. ANSWER: Save the Tiger This actor portrayed an FBI agent who states, “Tell them we’re going back to the tick-tock to get the boo-boo” in Baby’s Day Out. He reveals that Scott Pritchard is gay as the CIA director in one film, while in another he threatens to have the main character demoted to “busting counterfeiters in Alaska.” His screen debut came as a lawyer helping the title whistle-blower in Marie – a part for which he was uniquely qualified – and, aside from those No Way Out and In the Line of Fire roles, other authority figures on his CV include the Chief of Airport Operations in Die Hard 2, an admiral in The Hunt for Red October, and, ironically, a senator in Born Yesterday. FTP, name this man who stopped playing Arthur Branch on Law & Order in order to concentrate on his 2008 run for the presidency. ANSWER: Fred Dalton Thompson A novel by John Pearson states that this woman married a doctor named Wilder and moved to Philadelphia. In the book in which she first appears, she is described as having read the encyclopedia from A to the middle of T, and a broken nose is said to be her only imperfection. In a movie, after learning that she once killed a man by placing a black widow spider in his mosquito netting, the hero suggests that she not make this a habit. First seen singing “Under the Mango Tree” and carrying a dagger and two seashells while wearing a white bikini, this is, FTP, what Ursula Andress-portrayed beauty who emerges like Venus from the sea in the first James Bond film, Dr. No? ANSWER: Honeychile Ryder (accept first or last name) 115 In one film, this actor tells an attractive woman, “I knew girls like you in high school,” to which she responds, “Yeah? Did they do THIS?” His dying words in another role are, “Kill them, Machine ... kill them all.” Known as a porn star who fixes the “cobble,” an electrician named Slippery Pete who refers to an outlet as “holes,” and a cosmonaut who saves the day while yelling, “THIS is how we fix problem in Russian space station!”, he was also quite memorable as a man who insists on stopping for pancakes and declares, “I need unguent.” FTP, name this Ingmar Bergman favorite who played Dino Velvet in 8MM, Dieter Stark in The Lost World, Dr. Solomon Eddie in Minority Report, Karl Hungus in The Big Lebowski, and woodchipper-using Gaear Grimsrud in Fargo. ANSWER: Peter 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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