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Professor Serverus Snape’s Sorcerer-Tastic, Muggalicious Mid-Summer Movie Quiz<\/a>. Long anticipated. Questions are awesome, thought-provoking (your SECOND favorite Francis Ford Coppola movie? Love it!) – and the answers are even better. I was unable to participate in the last two quizzes because of everything that has been going on – but I gave this one a shot. I put my answers in the comments section over there, but true to form, I have put my answers below – in pictorial form. It’s fun for me that way.<\/p>\n


\n1) Second-favorite Stanley Kubrick film.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n2) Most significant\/important\/interesting trend in movies over the past decade, for good or evil.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Things like Netflix. I really CHOOSE what movies I want to see in the theatres now. Other than that, I wait.<\/p>\n

3) Bronco Billy (Clint Eastwood) or Buffalo Bill Cody (Paul Newman)?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n4) Best Film of 1949.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Toss up between:<\/p>\n

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\nand<\/p>\n

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Jimmy Cagney’s breakdown in the prison is an all-time high point for me in the history of movies. But boy, The Third Man!<\/p>\n

5) Joseph Tura (Jack Benny) or Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore)?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n6) Has the hand-held shaky-cam directorial style become a visual clich\u00c3\u00a9?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes. If used well, it’s awesome. But if you don’t know what you’re doing and why then, well, you shouldn’t do it.<\/p>\n

7) What was the first foreign-language film you ever saw?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I believe it was<\/p>\n

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\n8) Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) or Mr. Moto (Peter Lorre)?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n9) Favorite World War II drama (1950-1970).<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n10) Favorite animal movie star.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nThat dog had a quite a fruitful career.<\/p>\n

11) Who or whatever is to blame, name an irresponsible moment in cinema.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n12) Best Film of 1969.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nMy thoughts here<\/a>. There are other movies from that year that I love more, but in terms of scope and accomplishment, I have to go with this one.<\/p>\n

13) Name the last movie you saw theatrically, and also on DVD or Blu-ray.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Theatre:<\/p>\n

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DVD:<\/p>\n

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\n14) Second-favorite Robert Altman film.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It hurts me to choose. I know I’m in the minority but I am going with a movie I absolutely loved:<\/p>\n

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\n15) What is your favorite independent outlet for reading about movies, either online or in print?<\/strong><\/p>\n

So many come to mind! Kim Morgan, Sergio Leone, my entire blogroll basically.<\/p>\n

16) Who wins? Angela Mao or Meiko Kaji? (Thanks, Peter!)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n17) Mona Lisa Vito (Marisa Tomei) or Olive Neal (Jennifer Tilly)?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n18) Favorite movie that features a carnival setting or sequence. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n19) Best use of high-definition video on the big screen to date.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hands down:<\/p>\n

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\n20) Favorite movie that is equal parts genre film and a deconstruction or consideration of that same genre.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n21) Best Film of 1979.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I must go with:<\/p>\n

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\nwhich is, frankly, one of my favorite films of all time, but I am also forever haunted by:<\/p>\n

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\nso I feel I should mention it.<\/p>\n

22) Most realistic and\/or sincere depiction of small-town life in the movies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hmm.
\nRealistic:<\/p>\n

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\nit’s chilling how this girl who is NOT a bad girl gets the reputation for being one and the scenes of gossiping neighbors and passive-aggressive shunning is really ahead of its time. More thoughts here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sincere:<\/p>\n

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\nMay be a bit sentimentalized but I grew up in a town like that and have a lot of fondness for it – and although it is a cynical movie, the representation of small-town life and its regular rhythms is quite spot-on.<\/p>\n

23) Best horror movie creature (non-giant division).<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nI am thankful for caller ID every time I see that movie. Tell that beeyotch I’m not in!<\/p>\n

24) Second-favorite Francis Ford Coppola film.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n25) Name a one-off movie that could have produced a franchise you would have wanted to see.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nAlthough there is this<\/a>, so perhaps there is hope.<\/p>\n

26) Favorite sequence from a Brian De Palma film.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Opening sequence of<\/p>\n

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\nTo quote within context: Untouchable.<\/p>\n

27) Favorite moment in three-strip Technicolor.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n28) Favorite Alan Smithee film. (Thanks, Peter!)<\/p>\n

Ha!!<\/p>\n

I was coming up blank but then I saw someone else’s choice:<\/p>\n

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\nLove Richard Widmark. Good ol’ Allen Smithee. What underrated work he does.<\/p>\n

29) Crash Davis (Kevin Costner) or Morris Buttermaker (Walter Matthau)?
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\nOh what the hell, I’ll take Crash.<\/p>\n

30) Best post-Crimes and Misdemeanors Woody Allen film.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nIt is my favorite Woody Allen film in general.
\nDiane Keaton: “I’m gonna bust this case WIDE OPEN.”
\nWoody Allen: “What the hell has happened to you?”<\/p>\n

And then of course there’s the homage to Lady from Shanghai<\/i> that makes up the ending.<\/p>\n

31) Best Film of 1999.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n… although<\/p>\n

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\nis a sentimental favorite. Right, Bill? More thoughts here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

32) Favorite movie tag line.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s gotta be:<\/p>\n

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\n33) Favorite B-movie western.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not sure of the definition of B movie. How about:<\/p>\n

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\n34) Overall, the author best served by movie adaptations of her or his work.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dashiell Hammett. Shakespeare. Stephen King. Argh.<\/p>\n

35) Susan Vance (Katharine Hepburn) or Irene Bullock (Carole Lombard)?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sorry, Susan! I love you, you ditzy heiress, but I have to go with:<\/p>\n

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\n36) Favorite musical cameo in a non-musical movie.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Great question. Cameo. Hmm. This doesn’t really qualify as a cameo since they both are in the movie but here we go. Glorious.<\/p>\n

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\n37) Bruno (the character, if you haven\u00e2\u0080\u0099t seen the movie, or the film, if you have): subversive satire or purveyor of stereotyping?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m gonna go with neither.<\/p>\n

38) Five film folks, living or deceased, you would love to meet. (Thanks, Rick!)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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