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How well do you know World Cinema? You can find out here in our 45^th installment of Traveling Boy’s Global Cinema Trivia Game. No one will see your answers except you.

Global Trivia 45

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Question 1

Name the Hollywood actor who was NOT foreign born.

A	Hedy Lamar
B	Mel Gibson
C	Zsa Zsa Gabor
D	Greta Garbo
E	Donald Sutherland

Question 1 :

Answer: B. Mel Gibson

Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson was born January 3, 1956 in Peekskill, New York, as the sixth of eleven children of Hutton Gibson, a railroad brakeman, and Anne Patricia (Reilly) Gibson (who died in December of 1990). His mother was Irish, from County Longford, while his American-born father is of mostly Irish descent. Mel and his family moved to Australia in the late 1960s, settling in New South Wales.

Zsa Zsa Gabor; born Sári Gabor on February 6, 1917 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary (now Hungary).

Hedy Lamar; born November 9, 1914 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria).

Greta Garbo; born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson on September 18, 1901, in Stockholm, Sweden.

Donald Sutherland: born July 17, 1935 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.

Question 2

Name the French New Wave (La Nouvelle Vague) director who was NOT initially a film critic for "Cahiers du Cinéma."

A	Claude Chabrol
B	Alain Resnais
C	Jean-Luc Godard
D	Éric Rohmer
E	François Truffaut
F	Jacques Rivette

Question 2 :

Answer: B. Alain Resnais

Alain Resnais directing

Alain Resnais (1922 – 2014) was part of the French New Wave’s Left Bank Group, along with Chris Marker, Agnes Varda and Jacques Demy (Varda’s husband). Resnais was a director and editor of award-winning documentary films, before moving on to theatrical films with the release of Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959). The film, along with Truffaut’s first feature, Les Quatre Cents Coups (The 400 Blows) (1959) premièred at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival which led them both to world-wide fame.

Claude Chabrol (1930–2010)

Éric Rohmer; born Jean-Marie Maurice Schérer (1920–2010)

François Truffaut (1932–1984)

Jean-Luc Godard (1930 – )

Jacques Rivette (1928–2016)

Question 3

This legendary Japanese film director was famous for his innovation of the Tatami-style camera setup.

A	Kon Ichikawa
B	Akira Kurosawa
C	Kenji Mizoguchi
D	Nagisa Ôshima
E	Yasujirô Ozu

Question 3 :

Answer: E. Yasujirô Ozu

Yasujirô Ozu filming and Setsuko Hara

Ozu’s innovative Tatami-style camera setup consists of a rigorous use of static camera positioned only a few feet from floor. Ozu felt that this camera angle best reflected Japanese life. Ozu’s most famous film, Tokyo Story (1953), is generally considered by critics and film buffs alike to be his "masterpiece" and is regarded as one of the best films ever made. It is also my favorite film of all time. The camera moves just once in the entire film. He also turned out such classics of Japanese film as I Was Born, But... (1932), The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952), Floating Weeds (1959) and An Autumn Afternoon (1962).

Akira Kurosawa

Kenji Mizoguchi

Nagisa Ôshima

Kon Ichikawa

Question 4

Name the only Ingmar Bergman film in which Ingrid Bergman appeared.

A	Persona
B	Cries and Whispers
C	Through a Glass Darkly
D	Autumn Sonata
E	Smiles of a Summer Night

Question 4 :

Answer: D. Autumn Sonata

Ingmar Bergman and Ingrid Bergman on the Autumn Sonata set

Ingmar Bergman Filmography

Ingrid Bergman Filmography

Question 5

Russian stamp featuring Andrei Tarkovsky

Name the film NOT directed by Andrei Tarkovsky.

A	The Sacrifice
B	Russian Ark
C	Stalker
D	Solaris
E	Andrei Rublev

Question 5 :

Answer: B. Russian Ark

Andrei Tarkovsky Filmography

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April 6, 2022April 7, 2022

Ouch!

Well, everyone still seems to be talking about The Slap at the recent Academy Awards telecast. Yes, even T-Boy has dropped our standards. Here’s a quiz of a few others from Hollywood movies.

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Movie Slaps in the Face

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January 10, 2022January 10, 2022

Trivia 67: Award-Winning Films Reimagined, Part 2

Award-winning films reimagined 2

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It's a bit too early for the T-Boy Society of Film & Music's Annual Best Films of 2021, but here's a few of our all time top film awards reimagined by our staff.

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Question 1

NAME THE BEST FILM WHERE A dog buries an intercostal clavicle bone.

A	Babe (1995)
B	Bringing up Baby (1938)
C	Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
D	Planet of the Apes (1968)
E	Turner & Hooch (1989)

Question 1 :

Answer: Bringing up Baby (1938)

Directed by Howard Hawks

Asta (played by George the Dog) buries an intercostal clavicle bone which mild mannered zoology professor Dr. David Huxley (Cary Grant) desperately needs to complete his brontosaurus skeleton.

Question 2

NAME THE BEST SUMMER BEACH FILM with a speech about an “eating machine.”

A	All Summer Long (2019) (TV Movie)
B	Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965)
C	How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965)
D	It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
E	Jaws (1975)

Question 2 :

Answer: E. Jaws (1975)

Directed by Steven Spielberg

Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) along with Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) beg town mayor (Murray Hamilton to close the beach due to an “eating machine” (The Great White Shark; Carcharodon carcharias) in Jaws.

Question 3

NAME THE BEST MUSICAL about a man with a clean uncle.

A	A Hard Day's Night
B	Gigi
C	Inside Llewyn Davis
D	Nashville
E	Yankee Doodle Dandy

Question 3 :

Answer:A. A Hard Day's Night

Bound for a London show via train, the Beatles escape a horde of fans, but Paul McCartney is forced to take with them his very clean uncle (played by comedian Wilfrid Brambell).

Prior to reaching international fame in A Hard Day’s Night, Brambell is best remembered for playing the grubby rag-and-bone man Albert Steptoe in the long-running BBC television sitcom Steptoe and Son (considered a precursor to the Sanford & Son TV series in the U.S.). A running joke is made throughout A Hard Day’s Night of his character being "a very clean old man," in contrast to his “You dirrrty old man”in Steptoe and Son.

Question 4

NAME THE BEST BOXING FILM where broken boxer in a hospital begs manager to perform a “Mercy Killing."

A	Fat City
B	Golden Boy
C	Kid Galahad
D	Million Dollar Baby
E	Raging Bull

Question 4 :

Answer: D. Million Dollar Baby

Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank), paralyzed from the shoulders down, lies in a hospital bed after a leg amputation and the biting off of her own tongue, and begs manager and devoted Catholic, Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood), to perform a mercy Killing.

Question 5

NAME THE BEST 1988 FILM not to feature Alec Baldwin in an acting role.

A	Beetlejuice (1988)
B	Bird (1988)
C	Married to the Mob (1988)
D	She's Having a Baby (1988)
E	Talk Radio (1988)
F	Working Girl (1988)

Question 5 :

Answer:B. Bird

Bird is a 1988 American biographical film, produced and directed by Clint Eastwood. The film is a tribute to the life and music of jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker. It is constructed as a montage of scenes from Parker's life: from his childhood in Kansas City through his early death at the age of 34.

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Trivia 66: Award-Winning Films Reimagined, Part I

Award-winning films reimagined

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NAME BEST CRIME DRAMA where son of powerful family is sent to Vegas to learn the casino business.

A	Bugsy (1991)
B	Casino (1998)
C	Croupier (2003)
D	The Godfather (1972)
E	Oceans 11 (1960)

Question 1 :

Answer: D. The Godfather (1972)

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola

Son Fredo Corleone (played by John Cazale) is sent to Vegas to learn the casino business by the Corleone crime family.

Question 2

NAME BEST CRIME DRAMA where gangster shoves a grapefruit half into girlfriend’s face.

A	The Grifters (1990
B	Little Caesar (1931)
C	The Long Good Friday (1980)
D	The Long Goodbye (1973)
E	The Public Enemy (1931)

Question 2 :

Answer: E. The Public Enemy (1931)

Director William A. Wellman

At breakfast table, gangster on-the-rise Tom Powers (James Cagney) shoves a grapefruit half into girlfriend’s face (Mae Clark).

Question 3

NAME BEST CRIME DRAMA that features a new kind of coffee service which will knock your sockets out.

A	Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)
B	The Dark Knight (2008)
C	The Big Heat (1953)
D	Promising Young Woman (2020)
E	Some Like It Hot (1959)

Question 3 :

Answer C. THE BIG HEAT

Directed by Fritz Lang

Debby Marsh (Gloria Grahame) returns to the penthouse she shares with mobster Vince Stone (Lee Marvin) who accuses her of talking to ex-cop Dave Bannon (Glenn Ford). Stone throws a pot of boiling coffee in her face, one of the most shocking images in noir history

Question 4

NAME BEST CRIME DRAMA where ruthless head of gang sits on his mother's lap.

A	Animal Kingdom (Australian feature film; 2010)
B	Bloody Mama (1970)
C	The Krays (1990)
D	The Roaring Twenties (1939)
E	White Heat (1949)

Question 4 :

Answer: E. White Heat

Director Raoul Walsh

Cody Jarrett (James Cagney) sits on mother Ma Jarrett’s (Margaret Wycherly) lap in times of strife.

Question 5

Name BEST DETECTIVE CRIME DRAMA about a murder weapon hidden in tall clock case.

A	The Big Sleep (1946)
B	Chinatown (1974)
C	Laura (1944)
D	The Maltese Falcon (1941)
E	While the City Sleeps (1956)

Question 5 :

Answer: C. Laura

Directed by Otto Preminger

Clifton Webb hides murder weapon in tall clock case.

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A	Apocalypse Now
B	In the Heat of the Night
C	Nightmare Alley (2021)
D	The Power of the Dog
E	Schindler’s List

A	Daniel
B	Get Out
C	Lee Daniels’ The Butler
D	The Road to Perdition
E	There will be Blood

A	The Birds
B	Halloween
C	The Maltese Falcon
D	The Omen
E	The Purple Rose of Cairo

A	Bringing Up Baby
B	Chinatown
C	The Omen
D	Rosemary's Baby
E	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

A	From Here to Eternity
B	GI Jane
C	The Godfather (1972)
D	Limelight
E	Saint Jack

Global Trivia 45

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Name the Hollywood actor who was NOT foreign born.

Name the French New Wave (La Nouvelle Vague) director who was NOT initially a film critic for "Cahiers du Cinéma."

This legendary Japanese film director was famous for his innovation of the Tatami-style camera setup.

Name the only Ingmar Bergman film in which Ingrid Bergman appeared.

Name the film NOT directed by Andrei Tarkovsky.

Movie Slaps in the Face

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There was a time where I could have had you shot!

Answer B In the Heat of the Night (1967) - Directed by Norman Jewison; Written for the screen by Stirling Silliphant; Based on novel by John Ball.

When are we going to get our money, Daniel?

Answer E There Will Be Blood (2007) - Directed and written for the screen by Paul Thomas Anderson; Based on Upton Sinclair novel, “Oil!”

Who are You? What are you? Where did you come from? I think You’re evil. EVIL!!!

Answer A The Birds (1963) - Directed by Alfred Hitchcock; Written for the screen by Evan Hunter; Based on short story by Daphne Du Maurier.

She’s my sister AND my daughter!

Answer B Chinatown (1974) – Directed and co-written (uncredited) by Roman Polanski; Original screenplay by Robert Towne.

You can act like a man!

Answer C The Godfather (1972) - Directed by Francis Ford Coppola; Screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo; Based on novel by Mario Puzo.

Award-winning films reimagined 2

Answer: Bringing up Baby (1938)

Answer: E. Jaws (1975)

Answer:A. A Hard Day's Night

Answer: D. Million Dollar Baby

Answer:B. Bird

Award-winning films reimagined

Answer: D. The Godfather (1972)

Answer: E. The Public Enemy (1931)

Answer C. THE BIG HEAT

Answer: E. White Heat

Answer: C. Laura

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Answer B
In the Heat of the Night (1967) - Directed by Norman Jewison; Written for the screen by Stirling Silliphant; Based on novel by John Ball.

Answer E
There Will Be Blood (2007) - Directed and written for the screen by Paul Thomas Anderson; Based on Upton Sinclair novel, “Oil!”

Answer A
The Birds (1963) - Directed by Alfred Hitchcock; Written for the screen by Evan Hunter; Based on short story by Daphne Du Maurier.

Answer B
Chinatown (1974) – Directed and co-written (uncredited) by Roman Polanski; Original screenplay by Robert Towne.

Answer C
The Godfather (1972) - Directed by Francis Ford Coppola; Screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo; Based on novel by Mario Puzo.