Trying to change up a bit the topics I write quizzes on, as it seems all I've done recently on here is knock together twenty questions and post them up. So, today's topic is 1970s film. I do love films, and I think the 1970s was very possibly the best decade in the medium's history, so here goes. Everything from mainstream to foreign cinema. Some of the questions may be fairly difficult, but I've tried to have a decent mix.
I'll try to write one of these a day for the next few days, but we'll see how that goes.
1 Dubbed India's first "angry young man" for his Bollywood roles, which actor is regarded as one of the greatest in the history of Indian cinema, and starred alongside Rajesh Khanna in 1970s films such as Anand and Namak Haraam?
2 Which 1977 surrealist horror marked the feature-length directorial debut of David Lynch?
3 Badlands (1973) and Days of Heaven (1978) were both works by which director?
4 Bernardo Bertolucci's 1970 film, The Conformist, was based on an earlier 1951 novel by whom?
5 Who directed the so-called "paranoia trilogy" of films which consisted of Klute (1971), The Parallax View (1974), and All the President's Men (1976)?
6 What is the name of the commercial spacecraft that serves as the principal setting in the film Alien?
7 Which world city serves as the predominant setting for the following films: The Aristocats (1970), The American Friend (1977), Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)?
8 Based on the 1966 novel, Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square, what was Alfred Hitchcock's penultimate film?
9 What was the first R-rated film to win the Best Picture Academy Award since the introduction of the MPAA film rating system?
10 Which Argentinian composer - perhaps best known for his Mission: Impossible theme - scored films such as Dirty Harry, Charley Varrick, and The Amityville Horror?
Answers:
1 Amitabh Bachchan
2 Eraserhead
3 Terrence Malick
4 Alberto Moravia
5 Alan J Pakula
6 Nostromo
7 Paris
8 Frenzy
9 The French Connection
10 Lalo Schifrin
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