David
10-02-2005, 01:20 PM
Take the cinema quiz. If you score 100 or higher, you earn your Movie Lore B.A. cum laude. 80 to 99, you pass. 50 to 79, you pass just barely. Anything below, you need to pack up your **** & leave the dorm before the dean skins your ass.
1. Which of the following is chronologically correct?
a. Variety Lights, Nights of Cabiria, Juliet of the Spirits, La Dolce Vita
b. Magnificent Ambersons, Lady From Shanghai, Touch of Evil, The Trial
c. Ride the High Country, Noon Wine, Major Dundee, The Wild Bunch
d. Return of the Dragon, Fists of Fury, Enter the Dragon, Game of Death
2. _________ boffed __________ in ____________.
a. Brando/Schneider/The Passenger
b. DeNiro/Connelly/Once Upon a Time in America
c. Hopper/Black/Easy Rider
d. Grant/Hepburn/Midnight Cowboy
3. Who was not involved in "1941"?
a. Spielberg
b. Lucas
c. Zemeckis
d. Mifune
4. Which didn't involve Muhammad Ali?
a. Farewell to the King
b. When We Were Kings
c. The Greatest
d. Thrilla in Manila
5. "Nouvelle vague" means:
a. vague novel.
b. novel and vogue.
c. original but uncertain.
d. none of the above.
6. Schrader is to "Taxi Driver" as
a. Scorsese is to "Raging Bull."
b. Jodie Foster is to "Anna & the King."
c. Coppola is to "Black Stallion."
d. Milius is to "Apocalypse Now."
7. Arnold Schwarzenegger lost title of Mr. Olympia in "Pumping Iron Part II." True or False?
8. Which is of the following was not an early Soviet director?
a. Zhukov
b. Dovzhenko
c. Vertov
d. Pudovkin
9. Which actor did not expose his pud?
a. Robert DeNiro
b. Gerard Depardieu
c. Alec Baldwin
d. Harvey Keitel
10. Which porn star appeared in "Boogie Nights"?
a. Veronica Hart
b. Marilyn Chambers
c. Linda Lovelace
d. Fay Wray
11. Why is "Jeanne Dielmann" a ****ty movie?
a. It has a simple message stretched over four hours.
b. We are not only given but clobbered with the message.
c. Ackerman has no visual talent.
d. All of the above.
12. "Ohayo" is to "I Was Born But" as:
a. "Empire Strikes Backs" is to "Star Wars."
b. "Body Snatchers" is to "Invasion of the Body Snatchers."
c. "Dawn of the Dead" is to "Night of the Living Dead."
d. "Man Who Knew Too Much" is to "Man Who Knew Too Much."
13. Why did Brando get the role of Don Corleone?
a. Coppola insisted it be Brando.
b. Executives wanted a big name in a risky venture.
c. Brando asked Quinn to turn down the role.
d. Brando was hot again following success of "Last Tango."
14. Which is of the following is not a Cassavetes film?
a. "Shadows"
b. "Gloria"
c. "Minnie and Moskowitz"
d. "Saint Jack"
15. Why is "13th Warrior" immeasurably superior to "Lord of the Rings"?
a. "13th Warrior" is more intelligent.
b. "LOR" is dumb action and talkinghead soap opera.
c. "LOR" is for dorks.
d. All of the above.
16. Which Hong Kong director hasn't worked for Hollywood?
a. John Woo
b. Johnny To
c. Ringo Lam
d. Tsui Hark
17. In "Camille Claudel," the heroine works for which artist?
a. Rodin
b. Renoir
c. Warhol
d. Moore
18. Who wrote the essay "Circles and Squares"?
a. John Simon
b. Andrew Sarris
c. Parker Tyler
d. Pauline Kael
19. Dwight Macdonald had fun trashing which biblical spectacle?
a. "Cabiria"
b. "Ten Commandments"
c. "Land of the Pharoahs"
d. "Greatest Story Ever Told"
20. Victor Fleming replaced _________ for ___________.
a. Ford/How Green Was My Valley
b. Capra/Wizard of Oz
c. Cukor/Gone With the Wind
d. Hawks/Dracula
21. Boris Karloff is to the bride of Frankenstein monster as:
a. DeNiro is to Debra.
b. Gatsby is to Daisy.
c. Hoffman is to Elaine.
d. Peppard is to Hepburn.
22. Which of the following applies to "Lord of the Rings"?
a. Dumb, overblown, infantile
b. Grand, beautiful, ennobling
c. Epic, awesome, spectacular
d. Sweeping, glorious, magnificent
23. Why is "Attack of the Clones" better than "LOR"?
a. "Clones" has better effects than "LOR."
b. "Clones" has greater meaning than "LOR."
c. "Clones" has better script than "LOR."
d. "Clones" has better acting than "LOR."
24. Which list only includes Godard's Maoist films?
a. Weekend/British Sounds/Wind From the East
b. British Sounds/Wind From the East/One Plus One
c. La Chinoise/Wind From the East/Vladimir and Rosa
d. Alphaville/Passion/Day for Night
25. Which is not a recurring Fellini motif?
a. Sound of wind
b. Clowns and circus
c. Big-boobed women
d. Dragons
26. Pasolini labeled Italians as little fascists because of their:
a. historical amnesia.
b. consumerism.
c. revision of Mussolini's legacy.
d. rehabilitation of fascist-era bureaucrats.
27. Who was not a crucial influence on Godard?
a. Brecht
b. Derrida
c. Oshima
d. Bazin
28. Which character did not appear in a Welles movie?
a. Hal
b. Desdemona
c. Banquo
d. Lavinia
29. Which directors were admired more abroad than at home?
a. Kurosawa/Satyajit Ray/Hitchcock/Lewis
b. Mizoguchi/Ozu/Godard/Truffaut
c. Dreyer/Welles/Allen/DeMille
d. Rohmer/Chabrol/Resnais/Visconti
30. Lars von Trier is:
a. a great original director.
b. an obnoxious arrogant prick.
c. a member of the Swedish New Wave.
d. the director of "Idiots," "Zentropa" & "Celebration."
31. Which New Wave director enjoyed the greatest consistency in terms of quality?
a. Rohmer
b. Chabrol
c. Godard
d. Truffaut
32. Which figure didn't change his name?
a. Winona Ryder
b. Eric Rohmer
c. Stanley Kubrick
d. John Wayne
33. Which of these early '70s directors was outed as a one-shot talent?
a. Peter Bogdanovich
b. William Friedkin
c. Hal Ashby
d. Bill Evans
34. Which of these ladies did Warren Beatty not boff?
a. Faye Dunaway
b. Claudia Cardinale
c. Carly Simon
d. Julie Christie
35. According to Shirley MacLaine's beliefs she could have been:
a. an astronaut/a computer programmer/Henry Kissinger.
b. a toad/a maggot/Christopher Columbus.
c. advisor to President Johnson/inventor of the skateboard/Madame Mao.
d. a pair of shoes/a space alien/Warren Beatty's lover.
36. The following are not related by blood:
a. Donald and Kiefer
b. Martin and Emilio
c. Coppola and Cage
d. Audrey and Katharine
37. Which rock star didn't appear in a feature movie?
a. Dave Clark Five
b. Donna Summer
c. Michael Jackson
d. Cat Stevens
38. Elsa, made famous by the book and movie "Born Free,":
a. lived as proud lioness to the age of 12.
b. gave birth to three cubs and was mauled to death by another lion at age of 6.
c. gave birth to three cubs and was shot by a hunter.
d. disappeared and was never seen again after leaving three cubs.
39. People who like slasher movies:
a. have serious mental problems.
b. are total idiots.
c. need to freaking see better movies.
d. all of the above.
40. Which pairing lists Hitchcock's best/worst film?
a. Vertigo/Topaz
b. North By Northwest/Psycho
c. Vertigo/Shadow of a Doubt
d. Rear Window/Birds
41. Which hierarchy best represents Scorsese in terms of quality?
a. Taxi Driver/NY NY/Goodfellas/King of Comedy
b. Raging Bull/Goodfellas/Casino/Kundun
c. Goodfellas/Mean Streets/Kundun/Last Temptation of Christ
d. Casino/Taxi Driver/Alice/Color of Money
42. When _________ was away in __________, executives altered his version of ____________.
a. Peckinpah/Hawaii/Major Dundee
b. Altman/Las Vegas/Nashville
c. Welles/Brazil/Magnificent Ambersons
d. Kurosawa/France/Red Beard
43. Which of the following lists Paul Schrader's obsessions?
a. Calvinism/Buddhism/cinephilia
b. Kael/alcoholism/marxism
c. francophilia/anglophobia/nazism
d. suicide/Japanese culture/pornography
44. Which of the following is not an Andrej Wajda film?
a. Ashes and Diamonds
b. Siberian Lady Macbeth
c. Danton
d. Moonlighting
45. What happened with the Fellini/Bergman collaboration?
a. It flopped with critics and the public.
b. It won accolades at Cannes but was dismissed by the public.
c. There was no such project and shove the trick question up yer arse.
d. None of the above.
46. "Bubblegum Crisis" OVA takes place when and where?
a. 2032-2033/Megatokyo
b. 2040/Neotokyo
c. 2042-2043/Ultracity
d. 2055/Zentropia
47. Why was Riefenstahl, unlike Eisenstein, reviled so much by the film community?
a. She never apologized for her involvment with nazism.
b. Film scholars and critics tend to be liberal/leftist.
c. Nazism as an ideology was worse than communism.
d. All of the above.
48. Which of the following is NOT true about Mussolini.
a. He had wide support among futurists.
b. He didn't ban Visconti's noir film "Ossessione."
c. He decreed "We the Living" should be shown in every Italian school.
d. He was mainly responsible for creating Cinecitta.
49. Which Italian director did not work in cinema during the fascist era?
a. Visconti
b. Blasetti
c. Rossellini
d. Olmi
50. "Godfather" movies are associated with and/or draw inspiration from which of the following?
a. Watergate/FBI papers on the mafia/rise of Mussolini
b. Valachi papers/Lucky Luciano/Scarface
c. Puzo's mother/Frank Sinatra/Vatican corruption
d. Jewish crime/Chinese triad/Atlantic City
51. Peckinpah has been accused of all of the following:
a. sexism/fascism/catholicism.
b. fascism/male chauvanism/pretentiousness.
c. machismo/marxism/womanizing.
d. alcoholism/laziness/kidnapping.
52. Which critics trashed "The Wild Bunch"?
a. Rex Reed/Stanley Kauffmann
b. Andrew Sarris/Serge Daney
c. Judith Christ/Rex Reed
d. John Simon/Penelope Gilliat
53. Which critics detested "Do the Right Thing"?
a. Hoberman/Taubin
b. Wilmington/Carr
c. Kauffmann/Schickel
d. Kehr/Kael
54. What are Oliver Stone's best/worst films?
a. Nixon/Natural Born Killers
b. JFK/Nixon
c. Natural Born Killers/Platoon
d. Platoon/Heaven and Earth
55. "Throne of Blood" & "The Lower Depths" were respectively inspired by:
a. Shakespeare/Camus
b. Milton/Shakespeare
c. Shakespeare/Gorky
d. Shakespeare/Tolstoy
56. Which of these directors didn't serve in the military?
a. Oliver Stone
b. John Milius
c. Sam Fuller
d. Kobayashi
57. Brando reached his artistic peak from:
a. 1941 to 1950
b. 1953 to 1958
c. 1950 to 1955
d. 1967 to 1970
58. Which of the following associations (regarding film influence) is out of place?
a. 2001/Star Wars/LOR
b. Seven Samurai/Wild Bunch/Saving Private Ryan
c. The Killing/Pierrot le Fou/Pulp Fiction
d. Yojimbo/Dollars trilogy/Ashes of Time
59. The locale where "Godfather" doesn't take place?
a. NY
b. Vegas
c. Hollywood
d. Jersey
60. Unscramble the words on the right using hints on the left.
a. Elaine........................tegardau
b. Jean de........................ideapedur
c. Man with a pistol........................telvnoo
d. Man in disorder........................evsne sitebua
61. Which is not a pussyboy director?
a. David Fincher
b. Alexander Payne
c. Todd Solondz
d. Peewee Anderson
62. Which are Spielberg's best/worst films?
a. ET/Hook
b. Raiders of the Lost Ark/1941
c. Schindler's List/AI
d. AI/1941
63. Which directors should never have been born?
a. Rohmer/Russell/Spike Lee
b. Ackerman/Greenaway/von Trier
c. Godard/Truffaut/Peckinpah
d. anderson/Fincher/Jackson
64. Which was an important Italian director during the fascist era?
a. Blasetti
b. Pasolini
c. Provolone
d. Paparazzi
65. Which Japanese directors came to prominence parallel to the New Wave?
a. Teshigahara/Ichikawa
b. Kurosawa/Oshima
c. Kobayashi/Itami
d. Imamura/Oshima
66. Which of the following lists the big German directors of the '70s?
a. Riefenstahl/Fassbinder/Herzog
b. Schlondorff/Kluge/Wertmuller
c. Fassbinder/Wenders/Herzog
d. Schinkel/Goering/Rosenberg
67. Which list only includes Godard's great films?
a. Masculin Feminin/Band of Outsiders/Alphaville
b. Weekend/Wind From the East/Detective
c. Breathless/Masculin Feminin/Weekend
d. Contempt/Pierrot le Fou/King Lear
68. Which list only includes Truffaut's great films?
a. 400 Blows/Small Change/Wild Child
b. Jules and Jim/Mississippi Mermaid/Last Metro
c. Story of Adele H/400 Blows/Jules & Jim
d. 400 Blows/Day for Night/Two English Girls
69. Which ledgie employs trolling to settle silly vendettas?
a. pkcin Paula
b. Dissension Josh
c. David
d. Johnny Stew
70. Miyazaki's "Spirited Away" fails because:
a. its animation is primitive.
b. it lacks imagination.
c. it's a barfbag movie.
d. it's quasi-fascist.
71. What was Nixon's favorite movie?
a. The Searchers
b. Sands of Iwo Jima
c. Patton
d. Easy Rider
72. Whom did Orson Welles not work with?
a. Oja Kadar
b. Anne Baxter
c. Akim Tamiroff
d. James Stewart
73. Which of the following was blacklisted by Hollywood during scary Red period?
a. Jules Dassin
b. Elia Kazan
c. Nicholas Ray
d. Sam Fuller
74. Richard Lester didn't direct which film?
a. How I Won the War
b. Oh What a Lovely War
c. Robin & Marian
d. Superman II
75. Pauline Kael never reviewed a movie by:
a. Wertmuller
b. Resnais
c. Tarkovsky
d. Troell
76. Which great film was made in China during the '60s?
a. The Red Detachment of Women
b. Comrade Lin Feng
c. Breaking Wind From the East
d. Nothing great was made under maoism.
77. Who was not a great figure of Weimar German cinema?
a. Rohm
b. Pabst
c. Lang
d. Sternberg
78. Why do some adults like "Finding Nemo"?
a. It's a cool movie.
b. Some adults are retarded.
c. It makes you feel like a kid again.
d. There's no age limit for appreciating brilliance.
79. Which actress had the biggest knockers?
a. Sophia Loren
b. Jane Mansfield
c. Anita Ekberg
d. Lana Turner
80. Peckinpah's first movie was:
a. "Ride the High Country."
b. "Major Dundee."
c. "Death at Noon."
d. "Deadly Companions."
81. Which of the following is not a ****ty movie?
a. "13th Warrior"
b. "Time Code"
c. "Armageddon"
d. "End of Days"
82. Mel Gibson is an antisemite. True or False?
83. Which hierarchy is most accurate?
a. Welles/Chabrol/Allen/Mizoguchi
b. Hitchcock/Truffaut/Ackerman/Peckinpah
c. Renoir/Sirk/Godard/von Trotta
d. Mizoguchi/Welles/von Trier/Renoir
84. Which of the following was not a New Wave director?
a. Lelouch
b. Clouzot
c. Varda
d. Rivette
85. John Simon and Andrew Sarris beat the **** out of each other in which publication?
a. NY Times
b. Partisan Review
c. NY Review of Books
d. The Guardian
86. Match person in the left column with movie in the right column.
a. Charlton Heston........................Double Indemnity
b. Barbara Stanwyck........................Hud
c. James Wong Howe........................In Cold Blood
d. Conrad Hall........................Major Dundee
87. Which movie was Magnani's greatest role?
a. Secret of Santa Vittoria
b. Le Carosse d'or
c. The Fugitive Kind
d. The Rose Tattoo
88. Why did Mr T. pity the fool in "Rocky III"?
a. Because fools think Rocky can be champ.
b. It was self-pity for being stuck in a dumb movie.
c. Because we were fool enough to see "Rocky III."
d. Because he felt compassion for the fool.
89. Which director does Ingmar Bergman consider the greatest?
a. Welles
b. Antonioni
c. Fellini
d. Tarkovsky
90. Which movie did Peckinpah say was Ford's worst?
a. Stagecoach
b. Searchers
c. Liberty Valance
d. Cheyenne Autumn
91. Woody Allen's son Dylan is technically his brother-in-law. True or False?
92. Which of these directors didn't make a biblical epic?
a. John Huston
b. Robert Aldrich
c. Nicholas Ray
d. Franklin Schaffner
93. Woody Strode did not work for which director?
a. Kazan
b. Ford
c. Leone
d. Kubrick
94. Which ledgie has seen too many recent boring slugtard Stevie concerts & not enough exciting old ones?
a. David
b. Jyqm
c. DavidMN
d. PeteP9000
95. Which is not a David Lean film?
a. Agony and the Ecstasy
b. Breaking the Sound Barrier
c. Great Expectations
d. Brief Encounter
96. Which two movies prove that movies can be kitsch & yet still be art?
a. Rules of the Game/Crime of Mr. Lange
b. All That Heaven Allows/The Red Shoes
c. Andrei Rublev/Stalker
d. A Woman Is a Woman/Breathless
97. What did Heston say to his captors in "Planet That Went Ape"?
a. "It's none of your monkey business!"
b. "Shove this banana up your ass!"
c. "I can take your face, put it in some dough, and make gorilla cookies!"
d. "Get your filty paws off me, you damed dirty ape!"
98. Movie influenced by drug culture is:
a. Weekend
b. 2001: A Space Oddysey
c. Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
d. Performance
99. Scorsese was to cocaine what:
a. Welles was to anorexia.
b. Cassavettes was to booze.
c. Warren Beatty was to GOP politics.
d. I am to the Ledge.
100. Depardieu is to Montand as:
a. DeNiro is to Olivier.
b. Pacino is to Hoffman.
c. Nicholson is to Welles.
d. Newman is to Brando.
101. If A signs for 20 percent of net profit and B signs for 1 percent of gross profit:
a. A is smarter than B.
b. B is smarter than A.
c. both are equally smart.
d. it's impossible to tell.
102. "Film generation" refers to:
a. the pioneering generation of 1920s.
b. the Cahier group of critics immersed in film in the '50s.
c. surrealists and avant-gardists of the '30s such as Bunuel.
d. the '60s generation which embraced cinema as its most vital art form.
103. Which performer exposed her breasts most often?
a. Greta Scacchi
b. Julianne Moore
c. Sophia Loren
d. Beverly d'Angelo
104. Who dumped a plate of hot food on John Simon?
a. Katharine Hepburn
b. Sylvia Miles
c. Annette Bening
d. Reese Witherspoon
105. If you cross John Wayne with Audrey Hepburn through the FLY machine, you end up with something that looks like:
a. a redneck babboon.
b. a radioactive cockatoo.
c. a beer-swilling mongoose.
d. a muskrat half digested inside the belly of an alligator.
106. Which filmmaker was not gay?
a. Lang
b. Ozu
c. Pasolini
d. Jarman
e. Losey
107. Which is NOT true?
a. Cary Grant wore women's underwear.
b. Sam Peckinpah served in China as a Marine.
c. Goebbels asked Lang to head German cinema.
d. Kurosawa served in Manchuria during WWII.
108. If Bridget Fonda is more talented than Meg Ryan, and Meg Ryan is more talented than Alec Baldwin, and Alec Baldwin is more talented than Samuel Jackson, and Samuel Jackson is more talented than Bridget Fonda, it means that:
a. opinions on art are completely subjective.
b. this is a very stupid question.
c. celery isn't very tasty but nececelery for beef stew.
d. Hollywood is racist.
109. Which is NOT true?
a. Kurosawa's father built the first swimming pool in Japan.
b. Orson Welles' stepfather was Jewish.
c. Mizoguchi gave VD to a prostitute.
d. Sam Peckinpah's father was a conservative judge.
110. The writer of this quiz is clearly:
a. a man of great integrity and genius.
b. in need of psychiatric help.
c. a slavish follower of the herd.
d. an insane maoist.
111. In "Smiles of a Summer Night," the maid, upon bonking an ugly old man:
a. lives happily ever after.
b. kills herself.
c. inherits a huge fortune after the man dies and grows fat.
d. concludes that she must go to Moscow with her sisters.
112. Which critic remembered "Smiles of a Summer Night" with pleasure?
a. Otis Ferguson
b. Jean Vigo
c. Pauline Kael
d. Chester A. Arthur
116. What is the charm of making?
a. "Domo arigato mr roboto"
b. "Anail nathrach ortha bhaisis beatha do cheal deanaimh"
c. "Je dois dire que la femme a les fesses vraiment grandes"
d. "I do not fear a skunk. I simply do not care for its odor."
117. Who is not Jewish?
a. Fritz Langowicz
b. Sidney Lumetsky
c. Charlie Chaplinski
d. Stanley Kubrickstein
118. Who is not a bloke (a Brit)?
a. Richard Lester
b. John Boorman
c. Ken Russell
d. Karel Reisz
119. Who didn't emigrate to America?
a. Adolph Zukor
b. Yul Brynner
c. Rutger Hauer
d. Charles Bronson
120. Who was not a member of the magnificent seven?
a. Horst Bucholz
b. Brad Dexter
c. Mario Navarro
d. Robert Vaughn
Now post your own cinema quizzes!!
1. Which of the following is chronologically correct?
a. Variety Lights, Nights of Cabiria, Juliet of the Spirits, La Dolce Vita
b. Magnificent Ambersons, Lady From Shanghai, Touch of Evil, The Trial
c. Ride the High Country, Noon Wine, Major Dundee, The Wild Bunch
d. Return of the Dragon, Fists of Fury, Enter the Dragon, Game of Death
2. _________ boffed __________ in ____________.
a. Brando/Schneider/The Passenger
b. DeNiro/Connelly/Once Upon a Time in America
c. Hopper/Black/Easy Rider
d. Grant/Hepburn/Midnight Cowboy
3. Who was not involved in "1941"?
a. Spielberg
b. Lucas
c. Zemeckis
d. Mifune
4. Which didn't involve Muhammad Ali?
a. Farewell to the King
b. When We Were Kings
c. The Greatest
d. Thrilla in Manila
5. "Nouvelle vague" means:
a. vague novel.
b. novel and vogue.
c. original but uncertain.
d. none of the above.
6. Schrader is to "Taxi Driver" as
a. Scorsese is to "Raging Bull."
b. Jodie Foster is to "Anna & the King."
c. Coppola is to "Black Stallion."
d. Milius is to "Apocalypse Now."
7. Arnold Schwarzenegger lost title of Mr. Olympia in "Pumping Iron Part II." True or False?
8. Which is of the following was not an early Soviet director?
a. Zhukov
b. Dovzhenko
c. Vertov
d. Pudovkin
9. Which actor did not expose his pud?
a. Robert DeNiro
b. Gerard Depardieu
c. Alec Baldwin
d. Harvey Keitel
10. Which porn star appeared in "Boogie Nights"?
a. Veronica Hart
b. Marilyn Chambers
c. Linda Lovelace
d. Fay Wray
11. Why is "Jeanne Dielmann" a ****ty movie?
a. It has a simple message stretched over four hours.
b. We are not only given but clobbered with the message.
c. Ackerman has no visual talent.
d. All of the above.
12. "Ohayo" is to "I Was Born But" as:
a. "Empire Strikes Backs" is to "Star Wars."
b. "Body Snatchers" is to "Invasion of the Body Snatchers."
c. "Dawn of the Dead" is to "Night of the Living Dead."
d. "Man Who Knew Too Much" is to "Man Who Knew Too Much."
13. Why did Brando get the role of Don Corleone?
a. Coppola insisted it be Brando.
b. Executives wanted a big name in a risky venture.
c. Brando asked Quinn to turn down the role.
d. Brando was hot again following success of "Last Tango."
14. Which is of the following is not a Cassavetes film?
a. "Shadows"
b. "Gloria"
c. "Minnie and Moskowitz"
d. "Saint Jack"
15. Why is "13th Warrior" immeasurably superior to "Lord of the Rings"?
a. "13th Warrior" is more intelligent.
b. "LOR" is dumb action and talkinghead soap opera.
c. "LOR" is for dorks.
d. All of the above.
16. Which Hong Kong director hasn't worked for Hollywood?
a. John Woo
b. Johnny To
c. Ringo Lam
d. Tsui Hark
17. In "Camille Claudel," the heroine works for which artist?
a. Rodin
b. Renoir
c. Warhol
d. Moore
18. Who wrote the essay "Circles and Squares"?
a. John Simon
b. Andrew Sarris
c. Parker Tyler
d. Pauline Kael
19. Dwight Macdonald had fun trashing which biblical spectacle?
a. "Cabiria"
b. "Ten Commandments"
c. "Land of the Pharoahs"
d. "Greatest Story Ever Told"
20. Victor Fleming replaced _________ for ___________.
a. Ford/How Green Was My Valley
b. Capra/Wizard of Oz
c. Cukor/Gone With the Wind
d. Hawks/Dracula
21. Boris Karloff is to the bride of Frankenstein monster as:
a. DeNiro is to Debra.
b. Gatsby is to Daisy.
c. Hoffman is to Elaine.
d. Peppard is to Hepburn.
22. Which of the following applies to "Lord of the Rings"?
a. Dumb, overblown, infantile
b. Grand, beautiful, ennobling
c. Epic, awesome, spectacular
d. Sweeping, glorious, magnificent
23. Why is "Attack of the Clones" better than "LOR"?
a. "Clones" has better effects than "LOR."
b. "Clones" has greater meaning than "LOR."
c. "Clones" has better script than "LOR."
d. "Clones" has better acting than "LOR."
24. Which list only includes Godard's Maoist films?
a. Weekend/British Sounds/Wind From the East
b. British Sounds/Wind From the East/One Plus One
c. La Chinoise/Wind From the East/Vladimir and Rosa
d. Alphaville/Passion/Day for Night
25. Which is not a recurring Fellini motif?
a. Sound of wind
b. Clowns and circus
c. Big-boobed women
d. Dragons
26. Pasolini labeled Italians as little fascists because of their:
a. historical amnesia.
b. consumerism.
c. revision of Mussolini's legacy.
d. rehabilitation of fascist-era bureaucrats.
27. Who was not a crucial influence on Godard?
a. Brecht
b. Derrida
c. Oshima
d. Bazin
28. Which character did not appear in a Welles movie?
a. Hal
b. Desdemona
c. Banquo
d. Lavinia
29. Which directors were admired more abroad than at home?
a. Kurosawa/Satyajit Ray/Hitchcock/Lewis
b. Mizoguchi/Ozu/Godard/Truffaut
c. Dreyer/Welles/Allen/DeMille
d. Rohmer/Chabrol/Resnais/Visconti
30. Lars von Trier is:
a. a great original director.
b. an obnoxious arrogant prick.
c. a member of the Swedish New Wave.
d. the director of "Idiots," "Zentropa" & "Celebration."
31. Which New Wave director enjoyed the greatest consistency in terms of quality?
a. Rohmer
b. Chabrol
c. Godard
d. Truffaut
32. Which figure didn't change his name?
a. Winona Ryder
b. Eric Rohmer
c. Stanley Kubrick
d. John Wayne
33. Which of these early '70s directors was outed as a one-shot talent?
a. Peter Bogdanovich
b. William Friedkin
c. Hal Ashby
d. Bill Evans
34. Which of these ladies did Warren Beatty not boff?
a. Faye Dunaway
b. Claudia Cardinale
c. Carly Simon
d. Julie Christie
35. According to Shirley MacLaine's beliefs she could have been:
a. an astronaut/a computer programmer/Henry Kissinger.
b. a toad/a maggot/Christopher Columbus.
c. advisor to President Johnson/inventor of the skateboard/Madame Mao.
d. a pair of shoes/a space alien/Warren Beatty's lover.
36. The following are not related by blood:
a. Donald and Kiefer
b. Martin and Emilio
c. Coppola and Cage
d. Audrey and Katharine
37. Which rock star didn't appear in a feature movie?
a. Dave Clark Five
b. Donna Summer
c. Michael Jackson
d. Cat Stevens
38. Elsa, made famous by the book and movie "Born Free,":
a. lived as proud lioness to the age of 12.
b. gave birth to three cubs and was mauled to death by another lion at age of 6.
c. gave birth to three cubs and was shot by a hunter.
d. disappeared and was never seen again after leaving three cubs.
39. People who like slasher movies:
a. have serious mental problems.
b. are total idiots.
c. need to freaking see better movies.
d. all of the above.
40. Which pairing lists Hitchcock's best/worst film?
a. Vertigo/Topaz
b. North By Northwest/Psycho
c. Vertigo/Shadow of a Doubt
d. Rear Window/Birds
41. Which hierarchy best represents Scorsese in terms of quality?
a. Taxi Driver/NY NY/Goodfellas/King of Comedy
b. Raging Bull/Goodfellas/Casino/Kundun
c. Goodfellas/Mean Streets/Kundun/Last Temptation of Christ
d. Casino/Taxi Driver/Alice/Color of Money
42. When _________ was away in __________, executives altered his version of ____________.
a. Peckinpah/Hawaii/Major Dundee
b. Altman/Las Vegas/Nashville
c. Welles/Brazil/Magnificent Ambersons
d. Kurosawa/France/Red Beard
43. Which of the following lists Paul Schrader's obsessions?
a. Calvinism/Buddhism/cinephilia
b. Kael/alcoholism/marxism
c. francophilia/anglophobia/nazism
d. suicide/Japanese culture/pornography
44. Which of the following is not an Andrej Wajda film?
a. Ashes and Diamonds
b. Siberian Lady Macbeth
c. Danton
d. Moonlighting
45. What happened with the Fellini/Bergman collaboration?
a. It flopped with critics and the public.
b. It won accolades at Cannes but was dismissed by the public.
c. There was no such project and shove the trick question up yer arse.
d. None of the above.
46. "Bubblegum Crisis" OVA takes place when and where?
a. 2032-2033/Megatokyo
b. 2040/Neotokyo
c. 2042-2043/Ultracity
d. 2055/Zentropia
47. Why was Riefenstahl, unlike Eisenstein, reviled so much by the film community?
a. She never apologized for her involvment with nazism.
b. Film scholars and critics tend to be liberal/leftist.
c. Nazism as an ideology was worse than communism.
d. All of the above.
48. Which of the following is NOT true about Mussolini.
a. He had wide support among futurists.
b. He didn't ban Visconti's noir film "Ossessione."
c. He decreed "We the Living" should be shown in every Italian school.
d. He was mainly responsible for creating Cinecitta.
49. Which Italian director did not work in cinema during the fascist era?
a. Visconti
b. Blasetti
c. Rossellini
d. Olmi
50. "Godfather" movies are associated with and/or draw inspiration from which of the following?
a. Watergate/FBI papers on the mafia/rise of Mussolini
b. Valachi papers/Lucky Luciano/Scarface
c. Puzo's mother/Frank Sinatra/Vatican corruption
d. Jewish crime/Chinese triad/Atlantic City
51. Peckinpah has been accused of all of the following:
a. sexism/fascism/catholicism.
b. fascism/male chauvanism/pretentiousness.
c. machismo/marxism/womanizing.
d. alcoholism/laziness/kidnapping.
52. Which critics trashed "The Wild Bunch"?
a. Rex Reed/Stanley Kauffmann
b. Andrew Sarris/Serge Daney
c. Judith Christ/Rex Reed
d. John Simon/Penelope Gilliat
53. Which critics detested "Do the Right Thing"?
a. Hoberman/Taubin
b. Wilmington/Carr
c. Kauffmann/Schickel
d. Kehr/Kael
54. What are Oliver Stone's best/worst films?
a. Nixon/Natural Born Killers
b. JFK/Nixon
c. Natural Born Killers/Platoon
d. Platoon/Heaven and Earth
55. "Throne of Blood" & "The Lower Depths" were respectively inspired by:
a. Shakespeare/Camus
b. Milton/Shakespeare
c. Shakespeare/Gorky
d. Shakespeare/Tolstoy
56. Which of these directors didn't serve in the military?
a. Oliver Stone
b. John Milius
c. Sam Fuller
d. Kobayashi
57. Brando reached his artistic peak from:
a. 1941 to 1950
b. 1953 to 1958
c. 1950 to 1955
d. 1967 to 1970
58. Which of the following associations (regarding film influence) is out of place?
a. 2001/Star Wars/LOR
b. Seven Samurai/Wild Bunch/Saving Private Ryan
c. The Killing/Pierrot le Fou/Pulp Fiction
d. Yojimbo/Dollars trilogy/Ashes of Time
59. The locale where "Godfather" doesn't take place?
a. NY
b. Vegas
c. Hollywood
d. Jersey
60. Unscramble the words on the right using hints on the left.
a. Elaine........................tegardau
b. Jean de........................ideapedur
c. Man with a pistol........................telvnoo
d. Man in disorder........................evsne sitebua
61. Which is not a pussyboy director?
a. David Fincher
b. Alexander Payne
c. Todd Solondz
d. Peewee Anderson
62. Which are Spielberg's best/worst films?
a. ET/Hook
b. Raiders of the Lost Ark/1941
c. Schindler's List/AI
d. AI/1941
63. Which directors should never have been born?
a. Rohmer/Russell/Spike Lee
b. Ackerman/Greenaway/von Trier
c. Godard/Truffaut/Peckinpah
d. anderson/Fincher/Jackson
64. Which was an important Italian director during the fascist era?
a. Blasetti
b. Pasolini
c. Provolone
d. Paparazzi
65. Which Japanese directors came to prominence parallel to the New Wave?
a. Teshigahara/Ichikawa
b. Kurosawa/Oshima
c. Kobayashi/Itami
d. Imamura/Oshima
66. Which of the following lists the big German directors of the '70s?
a. Riefenstahl/Fassbinder/Herzog
b. Schlondorff/Kluge/Wertmuller
c. Fassbinder/Wenders/Herzog
d. Schinkel/Goering/Rosenberg
67. Which list only includes Godard's great films?
a. Masculin Feminin/Band of Outsiders/Alphaville
b. Weekend/Wind From the East/Detective
c. Breathless/Masculin Feminin/Weekend
d. Contempt/Pierrot le Fou/King Lear
68. Which list only includes Truffaut's great films?
a. 400 Blows/Small Change/Wild Child
b. Jules and Jim/Mississippi Mermaid/Last Metro
c. Story of Adele H/400 Blows/Jules & Jim
d. 400 Blows/Day for Night/Two English Girls
69. Which ledgie employs trolling to settle silly vendettas?
a. pkcin Paula
b. Dissension Josh
c. David
d. Johnny Stew
70. Miyazaki's "Spirited Away" fails because:
a. its animation is primitive.
b. it lacks imagination.
c. it's a barfbag movie.
d. it's quasi-fascist.
71. What was Nixon's favorite movie?
a. The Searchers
b. Sands of Iwo Jima
c. Patton
d. Easy Rider
72. Whom did Orson Welles not work with?
a. Oja Kadar
b. Anne Baxter
c. Akim Tamiroff
d. James Stewart
73. Which of the following was blacklisted by Hollywood during scary Red period?
a. Jules Dassin
b. Elia Kazan
c. Nicholas Ray
d. Sam Fuller
74. Richard Lester didn't direct which film?
a. How I Won the War
b. Oh What a Lovely War
c. Robin & Marian
d. Superman II
75. Pauline Kael never reviewed a movie by:
a. Wertmuller
b. Resnais
c. Tarkovsky
d. Troell
76. Which great film was made in China during the '60s?
a. The Red Detachment of Women
b. Comrade Lin Feng
c. Breaking Wind From the East
d. Nothing great was made under maoism.
77. Who was not a great figure of Weimar German cinema?
a. Rohm
b. Pabst
c. Lang
d. Sternberg
78. Why do some adults like "Finding Nemo"?
a. It's a cool movie.
b. Some adults are retarded.
c. It makes you feel like a kid again.
d. There's no age limit for appreciating brilliance.
79. Which actress had the biggest knockers?
a. Sophia Loren
b. Jane Mansfield
c. Anita Ekberg
d. Lana Turner
80. Peckinpah's first movie was:
a. "Ride the High Country."
b. "Major Dundee."
c. "Death at Noon."
d. "Deadly Companions."
81. Which of the following is not a ****ty movie?
a. "13th Warrior"
b. "Time Code"
c. "Armageddon"
d. "End of Days"
82. Mel Gibson is an antisemite. True or False?
83. Which hierarchy is most accurate?
a. Welles/Chabrol/Allen/Mizoguchi
b. Hitchcock/Truffaut/Ackerman/Peckinpah
c. Renoir/Sirk/Godard/von Trotta
d. Mizoguchi/Welles/von Trier/Renoir
84. Which of the following was not a New Wave director?
a. Lelouch
b. Clouzot
c. Varda
d. Rivette
85. John Simon and Andrew Sarris beat the **** out of each other in which publication?
a. NY Times
b. Partisan Review
c. NY Review of Books
d. The Guardian
86. Match person in the left column with movie in the right column.
a. Charlton Heston........................Double Indemnity
b. Barbara Stanwyck........................Hud
c. James Wong Howe........................In Cold Blood
d. Conrad Hall........................Major Dundee
87. Which movie was Magnani's greatest role?
a. Secret of Santa Vittoria
b. Le Carosse d'or
c. The Fugitive Kind
d. The Rose Tattoo
88. Why did Mr T. pity the fool in "Rocky III"?
a. Because fools think Rocky can be champ.
b. It was self-pity for being stuck in a dumb movie.
c. Because we were fool enough to see "Rocky III."
d. Because he felt compassion for the fool.
89. Which director does Ingmar Bergman consider the greatest?
a. Welles
b. Antonioni
c. Fellini
d. Tarkovsky
90. Which movie did Peckinpah say was Ford's worst?
a. Stagecoach
b. Searchers
c. Liberty Valance
d. Cheyenne Autumn
91. Woody Allen's son Dylan is technically his brother-in-law. True or False?
92. Which of these directors didn't make a biblical epic?
a. John Huston
b. Robert Aldrich
c. Nicholas Ray
d. Franklin Schaffner
93. Woody Strode did not work for which director?
a. Kazan
b. Ford
c. Leone
d. Kubrick
94. Which ledgie has seen too many recent boring slugtard Stevie concerts & not enough exciting old ones?
a. David
b. Jyqm
c. DavidMN
d. PeteP9000
95. Which is not a David Lean film?
a. Agony and the Ecstasy
b. Breaking the Sound Barrier
c. Great Expectations
d. Brief Encounter
96. Which two movies prove that movies can be kitsch & yet still be art?
a. Rules of the Game/Crime of Mr. Lange
b. All That Heaven Allows/The Red Shoes
c. Andrei Rublev/Stalker
d. A Woman Is a Woman/Breathless
97. What did Heston say to his captors in "Planet That Went Ape"?
a. "It's none of your monkey business!"
b. "Shove this banana up your ass!"
c. "I can take your face, put it in some dough, and make gorilla cookies!"
d. "Get your filty paws off me, you damed dirty ape!"
98. Movie influenced by drug culture is:
a. Weekend
b. 2001: A Space Oddysey
c. Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
d. Performance
99. Scorsese was to cocaine what:
a. Welles was to anorexia.
b. Cassavettes was to booze.
c. Warren Beatty was to GOP politics.
d. I am to the Ledge.
100. Depardieu is to Montand as:
a. DeNiro is to Olivier.
b. Pacino is to Hoffman.
c. Nicholson is to Welles.
d. Newman is to Brando.
101. If A signs for 20 percent of net profit and B signs for 1 percent of gross profit:
a. A is smarter than B.
b. B is smarter than A.
c. both are equally smart.
d. it's impossible to tell.
102. "Film generation" refers to:
a. the pioneering generation of 1920s.
b. the Cahier group of critics immersed in film in the '50s.
c. surrealists and avant-gardists of the '30s such as Bunuel.
d. the '60s generation which embraced cinema as its most vital art form.
103. Which performer exposed her breasts most often?
a. Greta Scacchi
b. Julianne Moore
c. Sophia Loren
d. Beverly d'Angelo
104. Who dumped a plate of hot food on John Simon?
a. Katharine Hepburn
b. Sylvia Miles
c. Annette Bening
d. Reese Witherspoon
105. If you cross John Wayne with Audrey Hepburn through the FLY machine, you end up with something that looks like:
a. a redneck babboon.
b. a radioactive cockatoo.
c. a beer-swilling mongoose.
d. a muskrat half digested inside the belly of an alligator.
106. Which filmmaker was not gay?
a. Lang
b. Ozu
c. Pasolini
d. Jarman
e. Losey
107. Which is NOT true?
a. Cary Grant wore women's underwear.
b. Sam Peckinpah served in China as a Marine.
c. Goebbels asked Lang to head German cinema.
d. Kurosawa served in Manchuria during WWII.
108. If Bridget Fonda is more talented than Meg Ryan, and Meg Ryan is more talented than Alec Baldwin, and Alec Baldwin is more talented than Samuel Jackson, and Samuel Jackson is more talented than Bridget Fonda, it means that:
a. opinions on art are completely subjective.
b. this is a very stupid question.
c. celery isn't very tasty but nececelery for beef stew.
d. Hollywood is racist.
109. Which is NOT true?
a. Kurosawa's father built the first swimming pool in Japan.
b. Orson Welles' stepfather was Jewish.
c. Mizoguchi gave VD to a prostitute.
d. Sam Peckinpah's father was a conservative judge.
110. The writer of this quiz is clearly:
a. a man of great integrity and genius.
b. in need of psychiatric help.
c. a slavish follower of the herd.
d. an insane maoist.
111. In "Smiles of a Summer Night," the maid, upon bonking an ugly old man:
a. lives happily ever after.
b. kills herself.
c. inherits a huge fortune after the man dies and grows fat.
d. concludes that she must go to Moscow with her sisters.
112. Which critic remembered "Smiles of a Summer Night" with pleasure?
a. Otis Ferguson
b. Jean Vigo
c. Pauline Kael
d. Chester A. Arthur
116. What is the charm of making?
a. "Domo arigato mr roboto"
b. "Anail nathrach ortha bhaisis beatha do cheal deanaimh"
c. "Je dois dire que la femme a les fesses vraiment grandes"
d. "I do not fear a skunk. I simply do not care for its odor."
117. Who is not Jewish?
a. Fritz Langowicz
b. Sidney Lumetsky
c. Charlie Chaplinski
d. Stanley Kubrickstein
118. Who is not a bloke (a Brit)?
a. Richard Lester
b. John Boorman
c. Ken Russell
d. Karel Reisz
119. Who didn't emigrate to America?
a. Adolph Zukor
b. Yul Brynner
c. Rutger Hauer
d. Charles Bronson
120. Who was not a member of the magnificent seven?
a. Horst Bucholz
b. Brad Dexter
c. Mario Navarro
d. Robert Vaughn
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