Preliminaries.ppt

BALLY UTSAV 2012

• THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ARE MEANT FOR THE PRELIMINARY ROUND

1. X, a 2000 movie starring Jared Leto, Reese Witherspoon and Willem Dafoe, among others, is often considered the only movie of its kind to have been directed by a woman, Mary Harron. Based on a violent and sexually explicit novel published in 1991, X was deemed highly controversial and inappropriate. The open-ended ending of X was also of note, followed by the conclusion with an interior monologue we get to hear, occuring in the protagonist’s mind. In the S01E06 of Dexter, he used the above character’s name as an alias while purchasing drugs. Identify X.

2. To what did this sculptor, born in 1921, lend his name?

3. Supposedly made on a budget only $2500, and based on a real life incident involving the director’s daughter, X was in the official selection for the New York and Toronto film festivals in 2006. Most of the characters in X remained unnamed, and the director had two different endings for X, depending on the outcome of the pivotal event being depicted in it. Identify X.

4. Which is the only country from Latin America to have won the Best Foreign Film Award at the Academy Awards, most recently having garnered it in 2010, and once previously in 1986?

5. X founded the theatre group “Chalachal”. X was first noticed during the production of “Angar” by Aurobindo Mukhopadhyay, and X made his debut in a small role in his 1959 movie, “Ahoban”. X worked at Bankshal court from 1953 to 1959. Identify X.

6. Minimalist poster for?

7. The etymological origins of the word X are difficult to determine. It is commonly thought that Gerard introduced X, in connection with a belief held by local peasants, into print in her travelogue The Land Beyond the Forest. However, X had already appeared in an 1865 journal article by Wilhelm Schmidt. A common etymology suggests that X meant "not breathing", which appears to be attempting to read a derivative of the Latin verb spirare ("to breathe"). Identify X, immortalised just after the end of World War 1.

8. Identify the man on the left with Victoria Abril, in this photograph snapped in 1993 in Paris.

9. X, literally translating to “shadow warrior”, was one of the last major films by the concerned director. With George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola credited as executive producers in the international version and released in 1980, X focuses on a major battle that took place in 1575. 5000 extras were apparently used in the climactic battle scene, after which it was cut down to a mere 90 seconds. X shared the 1980 Palme d’Or. Identify X.

10. X is honoured with a feast day on the liturgical of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America on 29 January. The X museum was opened in 1959, at the Andronikov monastery. The Nativity, The Baptism of Jesus, Theotokos from Deesis and Harrowing of Hell are some of X’s most famous works. Identify X.

11. Minimalist poster for?

12. The tagline of which iconic 2002 movie, adapted by Braulio Mantovani from a eponymous 1997 novel by Paulo Lins, but based loosely on real events in a suburb:-

“If you run, the beast catches; if you stay, the beast eats.”

13. To facilitate this, a software named “Effects Plus” was created over eighteen months. The project is estimated to have cost several crore rupees. Umar Siddiqui headed this, having put together a group of around a hundred individuals. It was co-ordinated by Deepesh Salgia, who partnered with a number of companies. The commercial viability of undertaking this was debated upon initially. What is being talked about?

14. Poster for which pre-eminent director’s 1968 debut?

15. Minimalist poster for?

16. X was started in 1951. Traditionally losing money, X attempted a make-over in 1999 to gain new readers, leading to a first split among writers and resulting in a magazine addressing all visual arts in a post-modernist approach. Le Monde took full editorial control of the magazine in 2003, appointing Jean-Michel Frodon as editor-in-chief. In February 2009, X was acquired from Le Monde by Phaidon Press, a worldwide publishing group which specialises in books on the visual arts. Id X.

17. X was launched in October 1900, and commissioned in 1904. Several innovations were introduced into X’s structure. X came massively into the news in 1905. X was named after the above, an 18th century military figure, Grigory X. Id X.

18. Christian Brevoort X was born in 1864. He was an adroit businessman who made a lot of money in the borax industry. His work took him a lot to California, in areas like Yerrno and Trona. He died in 1939. Which place, to the east of something iconic in the state, was named after him?

19. Minimalist poster for?

20. He was born in Vienna in 1956. He is fluent in German, French and English. He hails from a family of actors and stage-designers. He has been slated to feature in a major role in Disney’s Muppets 2, to be released in 2013. He holds a dual German citizenship, because his father was also one. Name him, or identify the iconic role he is most well known for playing, one that the writer director initially considered “unplayable”.

ANSWERS

1. X, a 2000 movie starring Jared Leto, Reese Witherspoon and Willem Dafoe, among others, is often considered the only movie of its kind to have been directed by a woman, Mary Harron. Based on a violent and sexually explicit novel published in 1991, X was deemed highly controversial and inappropriate. The open-ended ending of X was also of note, followed by the conclusion with an interior monologue we get to hear, occuring in the protagonist’s mind. In the S01E06 of Dexter, he used the above character’s name as an alias while purchasing drugs. Identify X.

American Psycho

2. To what did this sculptor, born in 1921, lend his name?

The Cesar Award (Cesar Baldaccini).

3. Supposedly made on a budget only $2500, and based on a real life incident involving the director’s daughter, X was in the official selection for the New York and Toronto film festivals in 2006. Most of the characters in X remained unnamed, and the director had two different endings for X, depending on the outcome of the pivotal event being depicted in it. Identify X.

Offside by Jafar Panahi.

4. Which is the only country from Latin America to have won the Best Foreign Film Award at the Academy Awards, most recently having garnered it in 2010, and once previously in 1986?

Argentina. (The Official Story and The Secret in Their Eyes)

5. X founded the theatre group “Chalachal”. X was first noticed during the production of “Angar” by Aurobindo Mukhopadhyay, and X made his debut in a small role in his 1959 movie, “Ahoban”. X worked at Bankshal court from 1953 to 1959. Identify X.

Rabi Ghosh.

6. Minimalist poster for?

Kuch Kuch Hota Hain.

7. The etymological origins of the word X are difficult to determine. It is commonly thought that Emily Gerard introduced X, in connection with a belief held by local peasants, into print in her travelogue The Land Beyond the Forest. However, X had already appeared in an 1865 journal article by Wilhelm Schmidt. A common etymology suggests that X meant "not breathing", which appears to be attempting to read a derivative of the Latin verb spirare ("to breathe"). Identify X, immortalised just after the end of World War 1.

s

Nosferatu.

8. Identify the man on the left with Victoria Abril, in this photograph snapped in 1993 in Paris.

Pedro Almodovar.

9. X, literally translating to “shadow warrior”, was one of the last major films by the concerned director. With George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola credited as executive producers in the international version and released in 1980, X focuses on a major battle that took place in 1575. 5000 extras were apparently used in the climactic battle scene, after which it was cut down to a mere 90 seconds. X shared the 1980 Palme d’Or. Identify X.

Kagemusha, by Akira Kurosawa.

10. X is honoured with a feast day on the liturgical of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America on 29 January. The X museum was opened in 1959, at the Andronikov monastery. The Nativity, The Baptism of Jesus, Theotokos from Deesis and Harrowing of Hell are some of X’s most famous works. Identify X.

Andrei Rublev.

11. Minimalist poster for?

The Big Lebowski.

12. The tagline of which iconic 2002 movie, adapted by Braulio Mantovani from a eponymous 1997 novel by Paulo Lins, but based loosely on real events in a suburb:-

“If you run, the beast catches; if you stay, the beast eats.”

City of God.

13. To facilitate this, a software named “Effects Plus” was created over eighteen months. The project is estimated to have cost several crore rupees. Umar Siddiqui headed this, having put together a group of around a hundred individuals. It was co-ordinated by Deepesh Salgia, who partnered with a number of companies. The commercial viability of undertaking this was debated upon initially. What is being talked about?

The colourization of Mughal-E-Azam.

14. Poster for which pre-eminent director’s 1968 debut?

Werner Herzog’s Signs of Life.

15. Minimalist poster for?

Enthiran/Robot.

16. X was started in 1951. Traditionally losing money, X attempted a make-over in 1999 to gain new readers, leading to a first split among writers and resulting in a magazine addressing all visual arts in a post-modernist approach. Le Monde took full editorial control of the magazine in 2003, appointing Jean-Michel Frodon as editor-in-chief. In February 2009, X was acquired from Le Monde by Phaidon Press, a worldwide publishing group which specialises in books on the visual arts. Id X.

Cahiers du Cinema.

17. X was launched in October 1900, and commissioned in 1904. Several innovations were introduced into X’s structure. X came massively into the news in 1905. X was named after the above, an 18th century military figure, Grigory X. Id X.

Potemkin.

18. Christian Brevoort X was born in 1864. He was an adroit businessman who made a lot of money in the borax industry. His work took him a lot to California, in areas like Yerrno and Trona. He died in 1939. Which place, to the east of something iconic in the state, was named after him?

Zabriskie Point.

19. Minimalist poster for?

Fahrenheit 451.

20. He was born in Vienna in 1956. He is fluent in German, French and English. He hails from a family of actors and stage-designers. He has been slated to feature in a major role in Disney’s Muppets 2, to be released in 2013. He holds a dual German citizenship, because his father was also one. Name him, or identify the iconic role he is most well known for playing, one that the writer director initially considered “unplayable”.

Christoph Waltz, who played Colonel Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds.