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1. "Brazil" (1985) is a film about a "retro-futuristic" society. Bureaucracy is running amuck and nothing is as simple as it seems. A network of ducts form a lifeline for the people of this regimented society, which often explode or fail. The terrorists in the film are the good guys and might help to repair your duct work. Who plays one of the lead terrorists?
2. "Pennies from Heaven" (1981) cost 22 million to make and grossed nine million. Audiences were probably not prepared for a dark musical, actors who lip-synched, and a plot that was downbeat to say the least. It was made clearly 25 years before it could really be appreciated. In the film a well known actor does a wild and woolly striptease. Who is he?
3. "Mondo Cane" (1962) is a compilation of archive film and reenactments. When first released, it was called a shockumentry because of its startling views of rites and practices all over the globe. If you enjoy watching pigs being clubbed to death, snakes being skinned, or people being gored by bulls, this is the film for you. Some scenes, however, are mild by any measure. The movie introduced a song which went on the garner an Academy Award nomination, although it did not win. What is this song?
4. "Battleship Potemkin" (1925) is Sergei Eisenstein's film experiment with several movie techniques, such as the use of film montage. This film is the darling of film schools and students of film art. Sailors, upset with their treatment, mutiny and support the anti-tsarist movement in Odessa, that results in the massacre of the rebels by Tsarist Cossacks on the Steps of Odessa in 1905. The sailors rebel when the ship's officers do what?
5. "Blue Velvet" (1986) is a moody film-noir that pushes the envelope with themes of perversity. The idyllic village of Lumberton has, beneath the surface, a network of evil, personified by the character of Frank Booth. David Lynch's writing and direction creates stunning scenes that etch on one's memory. Who plays the despicable Frank Booth?
6. "Reservoir Dogs" (1992) is the story of a well-planned but botched robbery. The film deals with the preparations and the outcome but not with the robbery itself. A team of professional criminals unite for a big score. To keep the identities of the gang anonymous, code names are assigned to members. Steve Buscemi's character does not like his assigned name. What was it?
7. Pink Floyd is a band with a cult movie, called simply "Pink Floyd-The Wall"(1982). "The Wall" is tri-faced in that is a recording, a stage presentation, and a movie. The plot line deals with the development and struggles of a rock star and somewhat mirrors the life of the band members. Images of war, social protests, and death come in rapid succesion. "The Wall" refers to which of the following?
8. Steven Frears draws a frightening picture of the status of immigrants in London with his film "Dirty Pretty Things". They live in fear that they will be deported and returned to situations that they have escaped. The protagonist in the film was a trained physcian in his native country but here he is a cab driver and desk clerk. He is asked to unplug a toilet. What does he find is the cause of the blockage?
9. Canadian director, Atom Egoyan, spins a magic spell in this ensemble film "Exotica" (1994). The film presents scenes to the viewer that finally climax in the end but may leave the casual movie-goer confused. The themes of depression and compulsion center around a strip-joint called Exotica. We see a baby-sitter with no child to watch; a stripper who dances as a Catholic school girl; and contraband being sneaked into Canada. Bruce Greenwood's character, Francis, goes regularly to Exotica, but who does he go to see?
10. "The Gods Must Be Crazy" (1980) was a surprise hit in the 80s. Coming from an unlikely country, South Africa, and featuring a bumbling biologist, a comely school teacher, a bushman, inept terrorists, and a Landrover with a mind of its own, it pulls all these elements into a movie that entertains, a rarity for a cult film. Something falls from the sky that initiates a variety of plot twists. What was it?
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