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A 1995 article by Denis Welch in the Listener revealed that this man had discovered a chest in the garden shed of one of his parents’ neighbors containing long-lost works by pioneering filmmaker Colin McKenzie; however, that turned out to be a hoax. He made a movie with the tagline, “Hell hath no fury like a hippo with a machine gun,” and showed a taste for gory horror and over-the-top comedy with Bad Taste and Dead Alive, as well as the aforementioned explicit Muppets spoof Meet the Feebles. Following an Oscar nod for detailing a real-life murder by Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme, he came to Hollywood for the Michael J. Fox-starring The Frighteners. FTP, name this Heavenly Creatures director from New Zealand who also did some stuff with a gorilla and elves. ANSWER: Peter Jackson (accept “Forgotten Silver” or “Colin McKenzie” before “chest”) 145 A judge sentenced this woman to 5 days in jail for contempt after she was sued by Paul Loewenthal, who represented her in the 1948 alimony case that ended her association with Hollywood. In the 1950s, she licensed her name to a maker of television cabinets. IMDb lists her as having over 300 film credits, from 1928’s The Viking to 1950’s The Elusive Pimpernel. Director Allan Dwan labeled her a “bitch,” while David O. Selznick complained that she put “obstacles in the way of real beauty” on Gone with the Wind, and Vincente Minnelli ignored her after she advised him to not use red and green costumes for a Christmas dance sequence in Meet Me in St. Louis. FTP, name this “Ringmaster of the Rainbow,” the famously domineering wife of Herbert, the inventor of Technicolor. ANSWER: Natalie Kalmus One of this actress’ last and worst films, Caprice, saw her attempt to steal a strand of hair from a sunbathing Asian beauty. Debuting in 1948’s Romance on the High Seas, she portrayed real-life singing star Ruth Etting in Love Me or Leave Me and took over the lead in the unfinished Marilyn Monroe project that became Move Over, Darling. She sang two Oscar-winning songs in movies, one of which was “Secret Love” from Calamity Jane, and in her only Oscar-nominated performance she performs “Possess Me” and “Roly Poly” and tells Brad Allen, “This may come as a surprise to you, but there are some men who don’t end every sentence with a proposition!” FTP, name this woman whose starring roles in Lover Come Back, Send Me No Flowers, and Pillow Talk all paired her with Rock Hudson. ANSWER: Doris Day This man directed an HBO movie about the Dreyfus affair, Prisoner of Honor, and used Catherine Deneuve’s hotter sister (!), Françoise Dorléac, as a femme fatale in the Harry Palmer spy flick Billion Dollar Brain. He first gained attention for several Monitor episodes dealing with composers, most notably Elgar, and later made features about Tchaikovsky, Mahler, and Liszt, as well as using Dvorák for the soundtrack for Crimes of Passion. He cast Vanessa Redgrave as a hunchbacked masturbating nun and covered Ann-Margret in baked beans, while The Rainbow, based on D.H. Lawrence’s novel, allowed Glenda Jackson to portray the mother of the character that had won her an Oscar in his most famous film. That 1969 classic by him also featured a notorious nude wrestling scene between Alan Bates and Oliver Reed. FTP, name this British filmmaker of The Devils, Tommy, and Women in Love. ANSWER: Ken Russell This movie’s credits misspell Mark Linn-Baker’s first name as “Mary.” According to Steven Bach, its R rating was due not to a few scattered uses of the f-word but to official disapproval of the subject matter. A skeleton in the background of a climactic conversation emphasizes the story’s universality. Two main characters are introduced in an art gallery and disagree about the “Academy of the Overrated.” The protagonist is unnerved to discover that his girlfriend’s ex-husband looks like Wallace Shawn and that his ex-wife – now a lesbian – has written a book about him. Featuring a prologue set to Gershwin and gorgeous black-and-white Gordon Willis cinematography, this is, FTP, what 1979 film that got Mariel Hemingway an Oscar nod as the 17-year-old love interest of Woody Allen? ANSWER: Manhattan This character likes to eat fish with the head on. The first time he is seen, Walsh thinks that he is talking about an apple core. Later, he mispronounces another man’s name while telling him, “You may think you know what you’re dealing with here, but believe me, you don’t.” When called “respectable,” he responds, “Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.” After his bifocals are found in a salt-water pond, he states, “Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time, the right place, they’re capable of anything,” but we don’t realize what he’s truly capable of until Evelyn says of Katherine, “She’s my sister ... and my daughter!” FTP, identify this villain portrayed by John Huston in Chinatown whose name may relate to his power over water. ANSWER: Noah Cross (accept first or last name) 150
ANSWER: James Coburn This movie’s eccentric supporting cast includes James Denton, CCH Pounder, Danny Masterson, Harve Presnell, and – in a highly atypical role – Margaret Cho. At the end, Jamie says to her father, “Dad, I’m sorry I shot you.” Sasha tells her young son “I don’t ever want to see you do that!” after escaping by kicking an FBI agent in the groin. The villain reveals a plan to destroy the city he refers to as “Hell-A,” leading to the use of Dr. Walsh’s experimental technique to send the hero undercover with Dietrich Hassler and Pollux Troy. Doves feature heavily in the climactic shootout of, FTP, what 1997 John Woo actioner that sees Nicolas Cage and John Travolta switch identities? ANSWER: Face/Off One movie made from this story features a piece of Miklós Rózsa music that was later plagiarized into the famed Dragnet theme. Another was a student effort by Andrei Tarkovsky. A 1946 adaptation saw Edmond O’Brien, as Jim Reardon, investigate how an involvement with femme fatale Kitty Collins, portrayed by Ava Gardner, led to the death of a character played by a debuting Burt Lancaster. A version intended to be the first-ever made-for-TV movie ended up as the final acting credit of Ronald Reagan, who appears in it as a vicious gangster. Don Siegel and Robert Siodmak have directed well-regarded films based on, FTP, what 1927 Ernest Hemingway short story about two hitmen who wait for “a Swede,” which somebody told me that you had a boyfriend who could name? ANSWER: “The Killers” The main character of this movie is trying to complete a leveraged buyout of National Shoes. Though most of it is in black and white, a shot where smoke rises from a chimney as a signal is meant to be in color. In the last scene, the villain states, “It’s interesting to make fortunate men unfortunate.” Based on the 87th Precinct novel King’s Ransom by Ed McBain, it is divided into three parts, the last of which uses American soldiers dancing with women as an image of degradation. In the second part, information about a car, a phone call, and old grudges is cleverly combined by Tokura, played by Tatsuya Nakadai, while in the first, Gondo is both relieved and crushed to learn that it is not his own son but his chauffeur’s that has been kidnapped. FTP, name this 1963 detective film from Akira Kurosawa. ANSWER: High and Low (or Tengoku to jigoku) This man’s character in Highway divides the world into “pandas and alligator boys” and, after hearing one of the latter scream, states, “That be a cry laden with pain and sorrow.” His mother got an Oscar nod for writing Running on Empty, and he played Robin Williams’ son on an episode of Homicide. In another film, he calls “Tom” his “slave name” and tells a woman, “You do get me – you just don’t wanna get me because I am too INTENSIFIED for you!!” Both that movie and Lovely & Amazing cast him as a teenager with whom an older married female co-worker becomes infatuated. After his first star turn as aspiring scientist Homer Hickam in October Sky, he went on to title roles as Bubble Boy and Donnie Darko. FTP, name this actor who portrayed Jack Twist in Brokeback Mountain. ANSWER: Jake Gyllenhaal 155 Mrs. Oxford’s horrible cooking is a running joke in this film. In one memorable scene, Bob Rusk climbs into a potato sack in order to retrieve a tie clip. François Truffaut’s The Bride Wore Black may have influenced a shot in which a man and a woman enter a building, and the camera, rather than follow them in, remains outside for several seconds until we hear a scream. Hetty and Johnny frustratingly refuse to confirm Dick Blaney’s alibi after his ex-wife is raped and murdered, and so he is wrongly imprisoned as the “Necktie Killer.” FTP, name this 1972 suspense thriller scripted by Anthony Shaffer that was the penultimate movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock. ANSWER: Frenzy One member of this family co-wrote the pilots for Marcus Welby, M.D. and Ironside and was Oscar-nominated for I Want to Live! Another scripted Ladyhawke and 3 James Bond movies. Two more collaborated on the W.C. Fields comedy Million Dollar Legs. One of those two was Oscar-nominated for The Pride of the Yankees and praised in an infamous Pauline Kael article whose central assertion was later disproved by Robert Carringer. The other directed James Mason in 5 Fingers, Laurence Olivier in Sleuth, and Marlon Brando in Julius Caesar, as well as nearly bankrupting 20th Century Fox with Cleopatra. FTP, give the name shared by the man who won an Oscar for writing Citizen Kane and his brother, who earned 4 Oscars in two years for A Letter to Three Wives and All About Eve. ANSWER: Mankiewicz (accept “Don Mankiewicz,” “Tom Mankiewicz,” “Herman Mankiewicz,” or “Joseph Mankiewicz”) (accept “Victor” or “David Victor” before “Ironside”) This man’s compositions range from a Strauss-ian waltz accompanying a gathering of neo-Nazis in The Boys from Brazil to the Emmy-winning “Kaddish for the Six Million,” a choral work honoring Holocaust victims, in QB VII. Known for innovative instrumentation, he used South American zampoñas in Under Fire and employed a shofar, steel drum, and serpent while filtering string pizzicati through an echoplex to create suitably alien sounds for Alien. More conventional work includes the jazzy Warning Shot and the orchestral theme from Gremlins. His only Oscar nomination in the Best Song category was for “Ave Satani,” which came from the film whose score won him his only Oscar, The Omen. FTP, name this composer whose credits include Planet of the Apes, Patton, and Chinatown. ANSWER: Jerry Goldsmith Not counting TV, this man’s only solo directorial effort was a 1980 comedy starring Bob Newhart as the US President. He has a cameo as a mental patient in Candy, which he adapted from Terry Southern’s novel; in a more famous film he co-scripted, he asks, “Are you here for an affair?” His acting roles include an ill-fated accountant in John Cassavetes’ Gloria and an ill-fated attorney in Nicolas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth. A remake in which a quarterback is killed before his time and comes back in the body of a murdered millionaire got him a Best Director Oscar nod. FTP, name this 10-time SNL host who worked with Warren Beatty in helming Heaven Can Wait, Mel Brooks in creating Get Smart, and Mike Nichols by writing several movies, including The Graduate. ANSWER: Buck Henry Peter Wollen proposed “structuralism” as a modifier for this and coined the term “styleme” to help analyze it. Its roots can be seen in “Birth of a New Avant-Garde,” a 1948 Alexander Astruc piece that originated the concept of le caméra-stylo. The hilarious essay “Circles and Squares,” which savagely attacked it, was part of Pauline Kael’s life-long feud with Andrew Sarris, the man who introduced this to America in 1962, while its first true definition came from 1954’s “A Certain Tendency in French Cinema” by François Truffaut. The use of the “A film by” credit is a tacit approval of, FTP, what notion that the director is a movie’s sole author? ANSWER: auteur theory 160 STOP At this movie’s climax, Simon refuses to play the recorder. In one scene, an elderly lady thinks that she is going to eat duck; in another, Ellie asks, “Did you just tell me to shake my ass?” The protagonist divides his day into “units” and compares his life to a TV show. He lives off of “Santa’s Super Sleigh” and joins SPAT, where he meets a woman with a “Lorena Bobbit for Surgeon General” T-shirt. After the events of “Dead Duck Day,” Will becomes involved with Marcus, who listens to Mystikal and believes that Jon Bon Jovi said “no man is an island,” as well as his suicidal mother. In the end, he gets booed at a school assembly while performing “Killing Me Softly.” FTP, name this 2002 Weitz brothers comedy based on a Nick Hornby novel and starring Hugh Grant. ANSWER: About a Boy
ANSWER: Sam Spade (accept first or last name) (accept “Shayne” or “Ted Shayne” on early buzz) In the Chinatown sequel The Two Jakes, this man has an uncredited cameo as a policeman who picks a fight with Jake Gittes. He has appeared in 5 of Francis Ford Coppola’s movies, including one role as a zoophagous fly-eater, and he played a disabled veteran in Terry Gilliam’s The Fisher King. He agrees with Roberto Begnini that it’s a “sad and beautiful world” in Jim Jarmusch’s Down By Law, calls the title character an “angel of fire” as a soothsayer in Domino, and explains the workings of a “psychofrakulator” as an eccentric weapons designer in Mystery Men; also, Robert Altman cast him in Short Cuts as Lily Tomlin’s husband. FTP, name this subject of the concert film Big Time who has released such albums as Small Change and Rain Dogs. ANSWER: Tom Waits This man was credited as “Mark Jeffrey” for his first film work, on the Roger Corman-produced Stakeout on Dope Street. In addition to documentaries like 2006’s Who Needs Sleep?, he has helmed two features, one of which is Latino. He pioneered the Steadicam with Oscar-winning work on Bound for Glory and made memorable use of split screen in The Thomas Crown Affair, but he is also known for writing, producing, and directing a movie about a Chicago cameraman who meets a woman from West Virginia and her pigeon-rearing son. FTP, name this Academy Award winner for the black-and-white cinematography of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? who spotlighted the riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in his Godard-influenced masterpiece Medium Cool. ANSWER: Haskell Wexler This woman played an elderly neighbor who provides a vital clue in Warning Shot. In a movie directed by the star of Bergman’s Wild Strawberries, she shoots her rapist and survives a cyclone. In another role, she tries to buy a flower with tin foil, and later uses two fingers to make herself smile in her big death scene. Her only Oscar nod came as the matriarch of a Texas ranch family in Duel in the Sun, and she and Bette Davis were two elderly sisters spending the summer in Maine in The Whales of August. She finds refuge from Battling Burrows with the “Yellow Man” and gets swept down a river by an ice floe in two films opposite Richard Barthelmess, Broken Blossoms and Way Down East. FTP, name this author of The Movies, Mr. Griffith and Me and star of The Wind and The Birth of a Nation. ANSWER: Lillian Gish 165 Among those with cameos in this movie are C. Everett Koop, Larry King, Patrick Ewing, Samuel L. Jackson, Hoyas coach John Thompson, and Fabio. Shot on location at the Georgetown campus, it features Nicol Williamson as a character added just so that the title wouldn’t be misleading, and Ed Flanders in a role first essayed by the Reverend William O’Malley. The director wrote the novel Legion, on which it is based, and it and The Ninth Configuration are the only films he ever helmed. Due to studio interference, some scenes involving the Gemini Killer were re-shot with Brad Dourif replaced by Jason Miller. George C. Scott stars as Lt. Kinderman in, FTP, what 1990 William Peter Blatty-directed horror sequel that picks up 15 years after the death of Father Damien Karras? ANSWER: The Exorcist III: Legion (prompt on “Legion”) (do not accept “Exorcist” or “The Exorcist”) This man’s last official directorial credit was the 1989 Burt Reynolds-starring thriller Physical Evidence. He cast Albert Finney as a plastic surgeon who goes up against a sinister corporation called Digital Matrix in Looker, while Runaway dealt with a cop whose job is to track down murderous robots. He told the tale of a Victorian-era gold theft in The First Great Train Robbery and adapted Robin Cook’s novel about organ harvesting into Coma, but rebelling machines were a recurring theme for him, as can be seen in his debut feature, Westworld, and his best-selling novel in which John Hammond’s experiment goes wrong. FTP, name this creator of ER and author of Jurassic Park. ANSWER: Michael Crichton This critic coined the terms “space-music” and “sculpture-in-motion” to describe cinematic language. He noted that the most common kind of movie was “the Action Film,” where “the story goes at the highest possible speed to be still credible” and “spectacles gratify the incipient or rampant speed-mania in every American.” His second book of film commentary, published after his suicide, was The Progress and Poetry of the Movies, but he is better known for writing that “the photoplay cuts deeper into some stratifications of society than the newspaper or the book have ever gone” in the first American work to treat cinema as an art form, The Art of the Moving Picture. FTP, name this pioneering critic from Springfield, Illinois, also remembered for poems like “The Dandelion” and “The Congo.” ANSWER: Vachel Lindsay In one role, this actress collapses in the Uffizi and is later raped by a man who sticks a razor blade in his mouth. In another, she is a baroness who gets poisoned and has her body thrown to dogs. She directed herself as the abusive stripper mother of a young boy played by the stars of The Suite Life of Zack and Cody in an adaptation of J.T. Leroy’s pseudo-memoir, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things. A 2002 Salon.com article labeling her a “hottie” describes a scene in which she cries while watching a villain kill several scientists with poison gas; in that movie, her love interest tells her, “It’s your eyes that give you away,” and she turns out be a KGB agent abandoned by her superiors. FTP, name this Scarlet Diva filmmaker and co-star of Queen Margot and XXX who made 1996’s The Stendhal Syndrome, 1998’s Phantom of the Opera, and 2007’s The Third Mother with her father, Dario. ANSWER: Asia Argento (prompt on “Argento”) This film features a parody of W.C. Handy’s “Long Gone (From Bowling Green)” with lyrics about a “sewing machine.” Nedrick Young, who won an Oscar for the script despite being blacklisted, can be glimpsed in one scene sitting in a truck next to the other screenwriter. It earned Academy Award nominations for Cara Williams, as an unnamed woman who has sex with one of the heroes and tries to get the other killed in a swamp, and Theodore Bikel, as a redneck sheriff (!) who states that the main characters will “kill each other in five miles.” At the end, Noah tells Joker, “You’re draggin’ on the chain!” FTP, name this 1958 drama in which “the warden has a sense of humor” and shows it by handcuffing together racial antagonists Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier. ANSWER: The Defiant Ones 170 One member of this family played women who unwisely befriend serial killers in both Peeping Tom and Frenzy. Her brother earned an Oscar nomination as Noel Coward, his own godfather, in 1968’s Star! Their father delivered the line, “I’m not askin’ for those pants, I’m taking ‘em!” in 49th Parallel and gave a performance often wrongly attributed to Boris Karloff in Arsenic and Old Lace. He appeared onscreen as his most famous character three times, including a cameo in How the West Was Won; most notably, Ruth Gordon portrayed his wife when he got an Oscar nomination as that man in a 1940 adaptation of Robert Sherwood’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama. FTP, give the shared last name of actors Anna, Daniel, and the star of Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Raymond. ANSWER: Massey (accept “Anna Massey,” “Daniel Massey,” or “Raymond Massey”) In his role in Sleepless, this man dies of a heart attack after being startled by a mechanical puppet. An uptight missionary in Hawaii and a Nazi in The Quiller Memorandum, he got an Oscar nod as an immigrant father in Pelle the Conqueror. He’s been both the devil and Jesus, and he appeared in two movies released only months apart that frequently make “all-time best” lists; in one, he has a small part as a gas station attendant. Ming the Merciless, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, and a character who uses the “Royal Canadian Institute for the Mentally Insane” to test out his evil plans in a Hamlet-inspired comedy are among the villains portrayed by, FTP, what existential action star who tried to free Regan MacNeil from Pazuzu in The Exorcist and matched wits at chess with Death in The Seventh Seal? ANSWER: Max von Sydow (prompt on “Sydow”) This was the title figure portrayed by Bekim Fehmiu in a 1974 Italian movie, as well as Jean Marais in a 1973 French miniseries based on an Alexandre Dumas novel. Orson Welles got to be him in 1949’s Black Magic, and Ferdinand Marian took the role in Münchhausen, a 1943 German epic. In Jean-Luc Godard’s Week End, he conjures up a flock of sheep but refuses to turn the female lead into a “real blonde.” Nicol Williamson played a Neil Gaiman-created character named for him in 1997’s Spawn, while Christopher Walken incarnated him in a 2001 period piece about a historical incident that led to his real-life imprisonment, The Affair of the Necklace. FTP, name this 18th century Sicilian mystic and namesake of a 1979 Hayao Miyazaki film which sees Lupin III visit his “Castle.” ANSWER: Count Alessandro (Alexander) di Cagliostro or Giuseppe (Joseph) Balsamo This man had an early supporting part as Robin MacGregor in the Disney version of Kidnapped and much later portrayed Dr. Flyte in the Dean Koontz adaptation Phantoms. In one film, when asked how he knows that he’s Jesus, he responds, “When I pray, it feels like I’m talking to myself.” In another, he panics at the climax, saying, “I haven’t performed in front of an audience for twenty-eight years! I played a butler. I had one line. I forgot it!” and also proclaims, “I’m not an actor, I’m a movie star!” Yet another role finds him teaching a 15-year-old that “words are important”; he later refers to that youngster as “the loneliest boy on Earth.” Hanging around a different teenager, this time as her septuagenarian lover, got him a 2006 Oscar nod. FTP, name this star of The Ruling Class, My Favorite Year, The Last Emperor, and Venus who recently voiced critic Anton Ego in Ratatouille. ANSWER: Peter O’Toole While a freshman at Barnard College, this actress made history by simultaneously starring in David Rabe’s Hurlyburly and Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing on Broadway for 9 months. After her film debut as Sunshine in Little Darlings, Sidney Lumet cast her as a drug addict in Prince of the City. She played a nanny in Baby’s Day Out but was scared off when she applied for the same job in Addams Family Values. Also memorable as the tearful maid Lorl in Amadeus, she appeared in a more recent movie that saw her describe Halloween costumes for women as either “witch or sexy kitten.” In that role, she talks her best friend’s fiancé out of marriage and describes another character as having “pudding in her Prada.” FTP, name this portrayer of Miranda Hobbes on Sex and the City. ANSWER: Cynthia Nixon 175 In one of this director’s works, a character tells Oscar Wilde’s story “The Birthday of the Infanta” while trapped in the dark with the heroine; that movie stars Ana Torrent as a student who discovers a snuff film. In another of his thrillers, a man seeks to discover the meaning of the initials “L.E.” while imprisoned for killing his girlfriend – played by either Najwa Nimri or Penélope Cruz – and finally jumps off of a building. In addition to making the aforementioned Thesis and Open Your Eyes, he cast Fionnula Flanagan and Eric Sykes as Grace Stewart’s sinister servants in the ghostly The Others. FTP, name this Chile-born Spanish filmmaker who told the story of Ramón Sampedro, a real-life quadraplegic portrayed by Javier Bardem, in 2004’s Oscar-winning The Sea Inside. ANSWER: Alejandro Amenábar Named for a cephalopod, this technique was used extensively in a 1996 drama that starred Vincent d’Onofrio as the creator of Conan the Barbarian, The Whole Wide World. Krzysztof Kieślowski’s The Double Life of Véronique, Lars von Trier’s The Element of Crime, and Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire are three of the most famous movies to employ it. Haskell Wexler made use of it in Bound for Glory, as did Conrad Hall in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The Kansas-set scenes in The Wizard of Oz were also shot this way. Picasso’s Guernica is one of the most famous examples of, FTP, what pigmentation method that gives many surviving silent films a brownish tinge? ANSWER: sepia tone This is the location where Walker is betrayed by his wife and Mal Reese and left for dead in Point Blank. Edmond O’Brien portrays Thomas Gaddis in a 1962 film based on Gaddis’ fact-based book about a resident of this place. In another semi-true movie, made in 1995, Henry Young commits a murder here after being abused by Milton Glenn, played by Gary Oldman. Yet another film set here sees Doc cut off his own hand after a character played by Patrick McGoohan removes his art supplies. Perhaps its most famous onscreen treatment is a 1996 film in which John Mason and Stanley Goodspeed take on the forces of Francis Hummel, a rogue general with access to VX gas. FTP, name this Bay Area landmark where Burt Lancaster studied birds and Clint Eastwood made an Escape. ANSWER: Alcatraz (prompt on “The Rock”) Among the film soundtrack pieces composed by this man are “A Fistful of Ice Cream” and “Going Home”; he often uses the latter to close concerts. He and Guy Fletcher performed “Tennessee Waltz” and “O! My Papa” as part of his work on Last Exit to Brooklyn, and his other credits include the David Puttnam-produced Cal and Barry Levinson’s Wag the Dog. In one of his best-known scores, guitar and synthesizer are used to set a fairy-tale mood in tracks like “Storybook Love”; less tuneful, perhaps, are action cues such as “The Cliffs of Insanity” and “The Fire Swamp and the Rodents of Unusual Size.” FTP, name this Englishman responsible for the music in Bill Forsyth’s Comfort and Joy and Local Hero and Rob Reiner’s The Princess Bride who is most famous as the founder of Dire Straits. ANSWER: Mark Knopfler This film is based on a book by the father of one of the directors of Jesus Camp; that book has the word “Six” in its title. Wabash makes reference to Sterling Hayden, stating, “I sailed the Adriatic with a movie star at the helm!”, and in the last scene the hero is asked, “How do you know?” after saying, “They’ll print it.” His girlfriend, played by Tina Chen, tells the man who kills her, “I won’t scream.” That assassin later explains to the main character, “A car will slow beside you, and a door will open, and someone you know, maybe even trust, will get out of the car.” Joe Turner, whose job is to read books, goes on the run after he returns from lunch to find all of his CIA co-workers murdered in, FTP, what 1975 Sydney Pollack conspiracy thriller starring Faye Dunaway and Robert Redford? ANSWER: Three Days of the Condor 180 In this movie, a maid named Rosa is played by Lena Olin, and Peter Stormare can be glimpsed carrying a coffin. Oscar uses a chair to explain the importance of storytelling and suffers a stroke while portraying the Ghost in Hamlet. Emilie then gets remarried to Vergérus, who abuses her children until they are rescued by Isak Jacobi with the help of magic. At the end, one of the title characters reads from Strindberg’s Dream Play, while her brother sees the ghost of a stern bishop who died in a fire. FTP, name this saga of the Ekdahl family set in 1907 Uppsala, an Oscar-winning autobiographical 1983 film by Ingmar Bergman. ANSWER: Fanny and Alexander (or Fanny och Alexander) At one point in this film, the protagonist sees a wife shoot her husband, then states, “I’ll probably get blamed for that.” Another woman frustrates him by saying random numbers aloud as he is trying to dial a telephone. He meets Marcy, who describes how her ex used to shout “Surrender Dorothy!” while making love, and visits her loft to see her roommate’s “Plaster of Paris bagel and cream cheeses,” only to run out when he fears that her body is covered by scars. Unable to get away from SoHo because he doesn’t have exact change for the subway, he ends up pursued by a vengeful mob, leading him to exclaim, “I just wanted to leave my apartment, maybe meet a nice girl ... and now I’ve got to die for it?!” Eventually Paul Hackett is rescued by two burglars played by Cheech and Chong in, FTP, what Kafkaesque 1985 black comedy starring Griffin Dunne and directed by Martin Scorsese? ANSWER: After Hours This man played a killer who thinks he’s had a heart transplant from a priest in a Mission: Impossible episode and made his feature debut in Cool Hand Luke. His role in the BBC miniseries Edge of Darkness as CIA agent Darius Jedburgh may have influenced his being cast as a CIA agent in a film by the same director, Martin Campbell. He sarcastically says, “Gee, golly gosh, I sure am sorry I offended you,” as a private investigator in Scorsese’s Cape Fear, and he was an arrogant hitman named “Molly” in Charley Varrick and an arrogant police chief in Fletch. In one James Bond movie, he restages the Battle of Gettysburg; in two others, he replaced Felix Leiter. FTP, name this Texan best known as the title character of the MST3K classic Mitchell and as Buford Pusser in Walking Tall. ANSWER: Joe Don Baker In B*A*P*S, this actor asks for Tupac, Too Short, and The Dog Pound in a music store and tells Nisi’s boyfriend, “She hopes your mama don’t get played.” A more serious line he speaks in a film is, “I am the Revolution,” but this fails to impress the other characters, who sing, “What’s the point of a revolution without general copulation?” Another movie sees him as the boss who welcomes “DZ-015,” aka Sam Lowry, to the team. His most famous catchphrase in his native country is, “You might think that. I couldn’t possibly comment,” but here in the States we know him as the guy who said, “Pardon me, would you have any Grey Poupon?” FTP, name this Scottish portrayer of Mr. Warrenn in Brazil, Marat in Marat/Sade, and Francis Urquhart in the BBC’s House of Cards trilogy. ANSWER: Ian Richardson Bill Lear, of Learjet fame, has a cameo as himself in this movie, which Austin Powers described as his favorite. Pauline Kael’s review singled out as hilarious in retrospect a moment where the hero remarks with disbelief, “An actor ... as president?” It marked Lee J. Cobb’s second appearance as Cramden, the head of ZOWIE; this time around, he dresses as a woman and is imprisoned by the “Amazons” at “Fabulous Face.” Climaxing with the incredibly realistic “Operation Smooch,” in which a group of unarmed, bikini-clad women physically defeats a highly trained military force, this is, FTP, what 1967 adventure film that sees an all-female society try to take over the world, a sequel to the James Coburn-starring Bond knockoff Our Man Flint? ANSWER: In Like Flint 185 One character in this movie says, “I’m trying to keep my mind free of things that don’t matter” and opines that her mother uses the phone like “she has to cover the distance by sheer lung power,” while another eagerly describes how a man “ran plunk right into the propeller of an airplane.” The opening credits show a ballroom filled with waltzers, and in one scene the heroine almost succumbs to carbon monoxide poisoning after being locked in a garage. It was the debut film of Hume Cronyn and of two other cast members, both of whom were natives of Santa Rosa, and Thornton Wilder co-wrote the screenplay. Young Charlie comes to suspect that Uncle Charlie is the “Merry Widow Murderer” in, FTP, what 1942 Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten-starring suspense thriller from Alfred Hitchcock? ANSWER: Shadow of a Doubt This man played “The General” in Hair and spoke the very first words in Wim Wenders’ The American Friend; Wenders also co-directed Lightning Over Water, a film about his death, with him. One of his works has Humphrey Bogart’s great line, “I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.” He cast teen idol Jeffrey Hunter as Jesus, and a key phrase summing up his oeuvre, “I’m a stranger here myself,” is spoken by Sterling Hayden in his famous “feminist” Western. James Mason ominously states, “God was wrong!” as a drug-addicted schoolteacher in his Bigger Than Life, while in his most known movie Jim Stark tells his parents, “YOU’RE TEARING ME APART!!!” FTP, name this Johnny Guitar and Rebel Without a Cause helmer. ANSWER: Nicholas Ray One character in this movie, grateful because the hero never made him play right field, turns over key evidence in a conversation that doesn’t take place. Another wonders what the point of exercise is, since all the time it adds to your lifespan is just spent exercising. Rosalind Chao, Kelly McGillis, Lauren Tom, Kathy Bates, Faith Ford, and Reba McEntire are among the candidates turned down in favor of Julia Louis-Dreyfus, whose husband is played by Jason Alexander (!), and Ford’s daughter is portrayed by a not-yet-famous Scarlett Johansson. Alan Arkin appears as the judge who emancipates the titular protagonist from his parents in, FTP, what 1994 Rob Reiner comedy starring Elijah Wood that caused Roger Ebert to use the word “hated” 10 times in his review? ANSWER: North In one film, this man’s character, Peterson, is responsible for the death of C. J. Memphis, whom he sees as an embarrassment. He made his movie debut as the long-lost son of executive Walter Whitney, while another role cast him as a police chief whose childhood friend, Maubee, gets tangled up in a murder. He played a DA framed by a killer that he had once put away in Ricochet and a carpet cleaner who becomes romantically involved with an Indian woman in Mississippi Masala, in addition to the aforementioned parts in Carbon Copy, A Soldier’s Story, and The Mighty Quinn. His first Oscar nod came for portraying activist Steve Biko, while his second was as someone who sheds a single tear when he is whipped. Also memorable as real-life figures Frank Lucas and Rubin Carter, this is, FTP, what Academy Award-winning star of Cry Freedom, The Hurricane, Glory, and Malcolm X? ANSWER: Denzel Washington The actor appears in It’s a Wonderful Life as a potential rival for Mary’s attentions to whom George Bailey says, “Oh, why don’t you stop annoying people!” In his last movie, Stanley Kramer’s The Defiant Ones, he played a posse member who gets yelled at for listening to the radio. Killed in 1959, allegedly in an argument over a hunting dog, he first portrayed his most memorable character alongside his brother Harold in 1935’s Beginner’s Luck, and by the time of 1936’s Oscar-winning Bored of Education, his off-key singing and cowlick were firmly established trademarks. FTP, name this onetime child star who was also identified by the moniker of his most famous role: the sidekick to Spanky in the Our Gang (or Little Rascals) film series. ANSWER: Carl Switzer or Alfalfa 190
ANSWER: Frank Capra This woman is credited as a set dresser for Phantom of the Paradise, on which her husband worked as art director. Her first non-extra role was as a young orphan sold into prostitution in Prime Cut, and she voiced a disembodied brain with which Steve Martin falls in love in The Man with Two Brains. A dream of Robert Altman’s inspired her surreal performance as Pinky Rose, while Caril Ann Fugate was the basis for another of her characters. She shot her abusive husband as Babe Botrelle in one film, and her other onscreen spouses have also had it rough: she urges one to kill Richard Strout, calls another a bigot due to his prosecution of Clay Shaw, and yet another disappears without a trace in Chile. Mooney marries her at the age of 13 in one movie, but he ends up okay. FTP, name this 3 Women actress who won an Oscar as Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner’s Daughter and got covered in pigs’ blood in Carrie. ANSWER: Sissy Spacek The director of this film – who, despite earning 2 Academy Award nominations for it, did not helm another movie until 1994’s Razzie-winning Color of Night – claimed to have invented the “rack focus” in a documentary about the “Sinister Saga” of making it. One scene reveals that a policeman lost an ear when the protagonist knocked him into frozen ice cream. Another character graphically describes what he can do in 22 seconds and repeatedly points out that King Kong was “three foot six inches tall.” After accidentally causing Burt’s death on the set of Devil’s Squadron, Cameron becomes convinced that Eli Cross is out to kill him. Steve Railsback plays the title risk-taker in, FTP, what 1980 Richard Rush thriller that earned Peter O’Toole an Oscar nod as a megalomaniacal moviemaker? ANSWER: The Stunt Man One character is this movie drunkenly reminisces about an encounter in Puerto Rico with, “well, I guess they were prostitutes, but I don’t remember paying!” Another doesn’t want to kiss with “porno tongue” and hates sitting in the aisle seat. The protagonist responds to a query at a job interview with, “I’m a big fan of money.... I keep it in a jar on top of my refrigerator. I’d like to put more in that jar. That’s where you come in.” After Linda leaves him at the altar, he teaches an elderly lady how to sing “Rapper’s Delight” and manages to stop a woman from becoming “Julia Guglia” by enlisting the help of Billy Idol. FTP, name this unexpectedly sweet 1998 romantic comedy set in the ‘80s and starring Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler. ANSWER: The Wedding Singer This man played a David Frost-like television interviewer in The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer and Uncle Benny in The Tailor of Panama. One movie he wrote sees an Oxford professor become attracted to the girlfriend of a student portrayed by Michael York, while in another Marian befriends the teenager Leo and asks for his help in cheating on her fiancé, and in yet another the sinister Hugo gradually takes over the life of aristocrat Tony. In addition to directing Alan Bates in Butley and scripting Accident, The Go-Between, and The Servant for Joseph Losey, he got one of his two Oscar nominations for a screenplay in which actors Mike and Anna have an affair while shooting a film of John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman. The other came for adapting his own play about a love triangle, told in reverse chronology. FTP, name this Nobel Prize-winning author of Betrayal. ANSWER: Harold Pinter 195 Evelyn Keyes as a flirt. José Greco as a flamenco dancer. Cesar Romero as Achmed Abdullah’s henchman. Ronald Colman as a railway official. Noel Coward as the recruiter Hesketh-Baggott. Peter Lorre as a steward. John Carradine as a proud Southern gentleman on a train where Buster Keaton is the conductor. Marlene Dietrich as the hostess in a saloon where George Raft is the bouncer, Red Skelton is a drunk, and Frank Sinatra plays piano. Edward R. Murrow as the narrator. These are just a handful of the stars who cameo in, FTP, what Oscar-winning 1956 film starring Shirley MacLaine as Aouda, Cantinflas as Passepartout, and David Niven as Phileas Fogg? ANSWER: Around the World in Eighty Days (prompt on “cameo”)
ANSWER: Eliza Dushku This song’s writers, who had previously won Oscars for “Buttons and Bows” and “Mona Lisa,” took its title from the family motto of Rossano Brazzi’s character in The Barefoot Contessa. It has been featured in numerous movies, including over the title sequence in Heathers, and its original performer reprised it in The Glass Bottom Boat and Please Don’t Eat the Daisies. In the film in which it first appears, it is sung to Hank McKenna as his parents desperately search for him. Penned by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, this is, FTP, what Academy Award-winning tune from Alfred Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much that states, “whatever will be, will be”? ANSWER: “Que Sera Sera” (prompt on “Whatever Will Be, Will Be” before it is mentioned) Most recently played by John Hudgens, this character owns a terrier named Rimshot and a turtle named Pokey. His family includes his arrogant uncle Aster Clement, his bitter great-grandfather Lloyd, his histrionic great-aunt Nelda, his unstable cousin Billy, and his slow-witted siblings Bunny and Coy. First used to promote the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, he made a cameo appearance in Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam before starting the series for which he is best known. Always accompanied by Vern and frequently spouting the much-imitated catchphrase, “KnoWhutImean?”, this is, FTP, what Jim Varney-portrayed pitchman who saved Christmas and went to camp? ANSWER: Ernest P. Worrell (accept either first or last name) (do not accept “Varney” or “Jim Varney”) A song with the chorus “I want to be a livin’ man” contains the only words heard in this work after the first few minutes. One sequence, in which the protagonist – played by Roger Jacquet – runs across a field for what seems like an eternity as a drumbeat is heard in the background, is spoofed in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, while in Brazil Terry Gilliam once again paid homage by referencing this movie’s ending. More famously, Rod Serling imported it to the US to broadcast as a 1964 episode of The Twilight Zone. FTP, name this Oscar-winning Robert Enrico short film about doomed Confederate sympathizer Peyton Farquhar, based on a short story by Ambrose Bierce. ANSWER: La Rivière du hibou or An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge 200 THE END All tossups authored by Yogesh Raut. Special thanks to Luke V. Pitcher, Matthew Husky, Mahendra Prasad, Melissa Fusco, David Kayvanfar, and Charles Wang for input on the questions and answer selections; Brian Lindquist and Arnav Moudgil for providing a venue; all moderators and players; and Ray Luo for helping inaugurate the previous version of this tournament. This has been Yogesh Raut’s 2nd Annual (and 1st Solo) All-Movies Singles Tournament: These Fragments I Have Shored Against My Ruins. 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. Part 1: Description and Examples Abstract archive -> United states archive -> Prediction from Weeks to Decades Download 236.42 Kb. Share with your friends:
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