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Quizmasters
Avaneendra Bhargav
Rohan Jain

2. 1
The name of the film literally means
"Sand woman," it is directed by Hiroshi
Teshigahara. The surreal and, at times,
absurd nature of The film has been
compared to existentialist works such as
Sartre's No Exit and Beckett's Happy Days.
Aside from its intriguing premise, this film
is notable for the life that Teshigahara
brings to the ever-shifting sand, which
almost becomes a character in its own
right. Which film ?

3. 1
The Woman in the Dunes

4. 2
New techniques currently being developed in
interactive movies, introduce an extra
dimension into the experience of viewing
movies, by allowing the viewer to change the
course of the movie. In traditional linear
movies, the author can carefully construct the
plot, roles, and characters to achieve a specific
effect on the audience. Interactive movies,
introduce an extra dimension into the
experience of viewing movies, by allowing the
viewer to change the course of the movie.
Where is this concept predominantly used ?

5. 2
Video games

6. 3
In his review of the film, X said ‘It's just
science fiction, so it's allowed to be
silly, and childish, and stupid. It's just
science fiction, so it doesn't have to make
sense. It's just science fiction, so you must
ask nothing more of it than loud noises
and flashing lights. That's the harm of
Close Encounters; that it convinces tens of
millions that that's what just science
fiction is’. His review was titled "The
Reluctant Critic“ Who is X ?

7. 3
Isaac Asimov

8. 4
‘Twenty One’ scandal revealed that
the quiz was rigged which is
depicted in 1994 film ‘Quiz Show’.
Contestant Herb Stempel testified
that he had been ordered by
producers to answer incorrectly to
question ‘Who won the academy
award for Best Picture in 1955?’, he
answered “On The
Waterfront”, which was wrong
answer. What’s the right answer?

9. 4
Marty

10. 5
Connect (exhaustive)

11. 5
Films which beat Indian films at oscars.
Nights of Cabiria – 1957 – Mother India
Pelle The Conqueror – 1988 – Salaam Bombay
No Man’s Land – 2002 - Lagaan

12. 6
This law is legislated by some states in the US.
Colloquially known as "Make My Day Law“,
which comes from the reference to a line
uttered by Clint Eastwood's character Harry
Callahan in the 1983 film Sudden Impact, "Go
ahead, make my day”. What is its official name.

13. 6
Castle Doctrine

14. 7
This character was first played by Brian
Cox but for the sequel Dustin
Hoffman, Robert De Niro and Sean
Connery were approached but they all
turned down the role. X accepted it and
won his only Academy award for the
same role. Which character ?

15. 7
Hannibal Lector
X is Anthony Hopkins

16. 8
After watching the unconventional, off-center
camera techniques of his film, X praised "young
Y," saying "He's the first one of us who doesn't
see the proscenium arch." Or, to paraphrase, he
was the first mainstream director to think
outside the visual dynamics of the theater. X and
Y?

17. 8
X – Alfred Hitchcock
Y – Steven Spielberg
The movie in question was Jaws

18. 9
• Robert Rich won the Oscar for ‘The Brave One’ in 1956
but was presented with a statuette in 1975.
• Ian Mclellan Hunter won the award in 1953 for Roman
Holiday but in 1993 a statuette was awarded to
someone else. Why ?

19. 9
• Dalton Trumbo.
• Robert Rich was a fictional and Ian Mclellan Hunter was
a front.

20. 10
In the movie Hanna Tom Hollander is seen whistling this tune
throughout the movie, why ? Composer and the song ?

21. 10
Devil Is In The Detail By Chemical
Brothers. Song was especially
composed for the film “Hanna”

22. 11
John Houston planned to make the
film with Humphrey Bogart & Clark
Gable. Then he thought of Burt
Lancaster & Kirk Douglas, he later
approached Paul Newman & Robert
Redford but Newman suggested X &
Y. This is the only film in which X & Y
acted together and the only film in
which Y has appeared with his wife
who portrayed the character of
Roxanne.

23. 11
X – Sean Connery
Y – Michael Caine (wife is Shakira
Caine)

24. 12
Dogme 95 is an avant-garde
filmmaking movement started in
1995 by the Danish directors
Thomas Vinterberg & X. This
movement focuses on to create
films based on the traditional values
of story, acting and theme, excluding
the use of elaborate special effects
or technology. Who is X ?

25. 12
Lars Von Trier

26. 13
This is the only film in the Academy awards
history to be a nominee in two separate non-
consecutive years. It was a Best Foreign Film
Nominee for 1966 and then a nominee for Best
Screenplay and Direction in 1968. Name the
film.

27. 13
The Battle of Algiers

28. 14
This film theory derived in part from
Marxist film theory, semiotics &
psychoanalysis was predominant
during 1970s. It maintains that
cinema is by nature ideological
because its mechanics
representation are ideological. It
follows an institutional model of
spectatorship. Which theory ?

29. 14
The Apparatus Theory

30. 15
She comes from the oldest family of Bollywood.
But she is being launched as an actor in Karan
Johar's upcoming film Student Of The Year and
not by anyone in her family. Who is she or which
family does she belong to ?

31. 15
Alia Bhatt

32. 16
Salman Rushdie calls X ‘a sci-fi masterpiece’ & has
argued that this exploration of unreliability of the
reality & the power of human unconsciousness, this
great examination of the limits of rationalism & the
perverse power of even most ill-fated love, needs to be
seen as widely as possible before it is transformed by
Steven Soderberg and James Cameroon into what they
ludicrously threaten will be ‘2001 meets Last Tango in
Paris’, What? Sex in space with floating butter ? Y must
be turning over in his grave.

33. 16
X – Solaris
Y – Andrei Tarkovsky

34. 17
A term was coined to describe a British cultural
movement theatre, art, novels, film and television
plays, whose 'heroes' usually could be described as
angry young men. It used a style of social realism,
which often depicted the domestic situations of
working class Britons living in rented accommodation
and spending their off-hours drinking in grimy pubs, to
explore social issues and political controversies. Most
notable examples are Room At The Top, Billy Liar and
Alfie (1966).

35. 17
Kitchen Sink Realism

36. 18
Aamir Khan apart from being an actor and a
director is a writer as well, but so far he has
written only one screenplay. Which film ?

37. 18
Hum Hain Rahi Pyaar Ke

38. 19
Sergio Corbucci was an Italian film director. He is
best known for his very violent yet intelligent
spaghetti westerns. He was for a long time
considered an exploitation director, but has now
attained a vast following and is easily compared to
Sam Peckinpah or Sergio Leone. He was know
better in the industry by his nickname, what was it
?

39. 19
‘The Other Sergio’

40. 20
Which film
is being shot ?

41. 20
Siegfried by Fritz Lang

42. 21
X is a motion picture process in 1916 & most
widely used in Hollywood from 1922 to 1952 for
special purposes. It was most commonly used
for filming musicals, costume pictures &
animated films. The downfall of this process
began in 1950s because of the new process
created by Y. X and Y ?

43. 21
Eastman Color
Technicolor

44. 22
Lyrics of this song were written by X but he felt uncomfortable while writing the
english lyrics so he asked Y and Z to do it. X,Y and Z please ?

45. 22
X – Javed Akhtar
Y – Farhan A
Z – Zoya A

46. 23
Connect.

47. 23
Entire cast nominated for Academy
Awards.
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton,
George Segal, Sandy Dennis - who's
afraid of virginia woolf
Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine –
Sleuth
James Whitmore - Give'em Hell
Harry

48. 24
-------- Cinema was a documentary film movement
that emerged in England in the mid-1950s. The
term referred to an absence of propagandised
intent or deliberate box office appeal. Co-founded
by Lindsay Anderson, films were ‘-----' in the sense
that they were made outside the confines of the
film industry and were distinguished by their style
and attitude and the conditions of production.
FITB (one word)

49. 24
Free Cinema