MID-SUMMER MOVIE QUIZ

The always interesting Dennis Cozzalio over @ Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule throws these cinematic aptitude tests together every now & again for nerdy film types. This one is titled PROFESSOR SEVERUS SNAPE'S SORCERER-TASTIC, MUGGALICIOUS MID-SUMMER MOVIE QUIZ.. The questions & responses always make for an amusing read. 

Here's mines.










1) 

2ND-FAVORITE 

        KUBRICK FILM?
DR. STRANGELOVE (1968)

Coming only after 

the SPACE ODYSSEY (1968).

2) MOST SIGNIFICANT - 

IMPORTANT - INTERESTING 

TREND IN MOVIES OVER 

PAST DECADE, FOR GOOD 

OR EVIL?
Didn't know if this meant on the technical 

front or something more contextual; but I'd 

say Digital filmmaking in general. 

Completely CG rendered enviros, green 

screen/blue screen, mo-cap, HDV replacing 

celluloid, etc.. So depending on how they're used: 

some good. Some very lazy + toxic to creativity. 

Therefore evil.

3) BRONCO BILLY 

(CLINT EASTWOOD) OR 

BUFFALO BILL CODY 

(PAUL NEWMAN)?
Buffalo Bill... sorry, Clint.

(take that, Dick Schickel!)

4) 

BEST FILM OF 1949?
THE BICYCLE THIEF. Technically a 1948 release in 

Europe, but it’s '49 in the States. Best American film 

of that year was King Vidor’s BEYOND THE FOREST.
1949 at 24fps

5) JOSEPH TURA (JACK BENNY) 

OR OSCAR JAFFE 

(JOHN BARRYMORE)?
Def John Barrymore

6) 

HAS HAND-HELD SHAKY-CAM DIRECTORIAL STYLE BECOME 

VISUAL CLICHE?
Only in the hands of certain filmmakers.

7) WHAT WAS THE 1ST 

FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM 

YOU EVER SAW?
CINEMA PARADISO (1989), that I can remember. 

& Even though I couldn't read yet, I believe it was easy 

enough for me to follow the story. At least the 

childhood parts

8) CHARLIE CHAN (WARNER OLAND) 

    OR MR. MOTO (PETER LORRE)?
These character's are both very racially 

offensive to me. Yet Peter Lorre somehow 

hammed it up to such a degree as the 

stereotype that it's sort of a guilty pleasure

 to me that cracks me up from time to time. 

Lorre was such an odd odd little man.

9) FAVORITE WWII DRAMA 

            (1950-1970)?
THE GREAT ESCAPE (1963).. 

No doyeeeee!

10) 

FAVORITE ANIMAL MOVIE STAR?
That pig from BABE because 

he could talk.

11) WHO OR WHATEVER IS 

TO BLAME, NAME AN IRRESPONSIBLE 

MOMENT IN CINEMA
Even if some of the things she shot have a 

shallow aesthetic brilliance to them, Leni 

Riefenstahl’s propaganda films for the 

Nazi party are particularly troubling... 

Also, BIRTH OF A NATION (1915)

12) BEST FILM OF 1969?
Peckinpah's WILD BUNCH 

 (1969 at 24fps)

Lol "69"

13) LAST MOVIE YOU SAW 

THEATRICALLY, AND ALSO 

ON DVD OR BLU-RAY
Theatrically: BRUNO
Dvd: CORALINE
Blu ray: FOR ALL MANKIND

14) 

2ND-FAVORITE ALTMAN FILM?
NASHVILLE (1975)

15) FAVORITE INDEPENDENT OUTLET 

FOR READING ABOUT MOVIES, 

EITHER ONLINE OR IN PRINT?
Sight & Sound magazine in print. Slant Magazine online.

16) 

ANGELA MAO OR MEIKO KAJI?
Meiko Kaji is more my type <3

17) MONA LISA VITO (MARISA TOMEI) 

OR OLIVE NEAL (JENNIFER TILLY)?
A tough one. But I'm gonna go with Marisa Tomei. 

Especially in MY COUSIN VINNY. She’s adorable.. 

(Even though she didn't deserve her Oscar that year)

18) FAVORITE MOVIE THAT 

FEATURES A CARNIVAL 

SETTING OR SEQUENCE?
Hitchcock’s STRANGERS ON A TRAIN 

19) BEST USE OF HIGH-DEFINITION 

VIDEO ON THE BIG SCREEN TO DATE?
MIAMI VICE (2006). Those wide vistas of the city 

skyline would not have looked the same without it. 

Digital is perfect for shooting urban settings at night..

20) 

FAVORITE MOVIE THAT IS EQUAL 

PARTS GENRE FILM AND A 

DECONSTRUCTION OR 

CONSIDERATION OF THAT SAME 

GENRE?
MCCABE & MRS. MILLER (1971).. 

my favorite Altman.

21) BEST FILM OF 1979?
ALL THAT JAZZ. 1979 at 24fps

22) MOST REALISTIC OR SINCERE 

DEPICTION OF SMALL-TOWN LIFE?
John Sayles does small-town communities better than 

anybody. Favorite being LONE STAR (1996)

23) BEST HORROR MOVIE CREATURE? 
(NON-GIANT DIVISION)
George Romero-style slow zombies. And if those don’t 

count as “creatures”, than the ALIEN (1979) xenomorph.

24) 

2ND-FAVORITE FRANCIS COPPOLA?
THE CONVERSATION (1974)

25) NAME A ONE-OFF MOVIE 

THAT COULD HAVE PRODUCED 

A FRANCHISE YOU WOULD 

HAVE WANTED TO SEE
THE INCREDIBLES (2004)

26) FAVORITE 

DE PALMA SEQUENCE?
Though not his best, the BATTLESHIP 

POTEMKIN stairwell shoot-out from the 

climax of UNTOUCHABLES (1987) 

always gives me chills.

27) FAVORITE 

MOMENT IN TECHNICOLOR

The "Munchkin Parade" Medley & "Follow the Yellow 

Brick Road" numbers from  WIZARD OF OZ (1939).. 

Elation.

28) 

FAVORITE 

ALAN SMITHEE FILM?
They are all pretty terrible. But SUPERNOVA (2000) had 

the most potential & was most tolerable of what I've seen.

29) CRASH DAVIS (COSTNER) 

OR MORRIS BUTTERMAKER 

(MATTHAU)?
Walter Matthau 

in BAD NEW BEARS. Any day.

30) BEST POST-CRIMES & 

MISDEMEANORS WOODY 

ALLEN FILM?
BULLETS OVER BROADWAY

31) BEST FILM OF 1999?
Kubrick's EYES WIDE SHUT
1999 at 24fps

32) 

FAVORITE MOVIE TAG LINE?
“THIS SUMMER; GO APE-SHIT!” from 

Tim Burton’s 2001 remake of PLANET OF THE APES..

Just kidding. In all seriousness, 

"THE ULTIMATE TRIP" from the ads for 

Kubrick's SPACE ODYSSEY (1968). 

Because it was the truth.

33) 

FAVORITE 

B-MOVIE WESTERN?
THE SHOOTING (1967) 

by Monte Hellman.

34) OVERALL, THE AUTHOR 

BEST SERVED BY MOVIE 

ADAPTATIONS OF HER

 OR HIS WORK?
Elmore Leonard, 

off the top of my head.

35) SUSAN VANCE 

(KATHARINE HEPBURN) 

OR IRENE BULLOCK 

(CAROLE LOMBARD)?
Hepburn in BRINGING UP BABY. 

Still hilarious.

36) FAVORITE MUSICAL 

CAMEO IN A NON-MUSICAL 

MOVIE?
“Knights of the Round Table” sequence from 

MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1975). 

haha

37) 

BRUNO (THE CHARACTER, 

IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE 

MOVIE, OR THE FILM, IF 

YOU HAVE): SUBVERSIVE 

SATIRE OR PURVEYOR OF STEREOTYPING?
I think it’s mostly really calculated satire.. 

It's funny regardless.

38) FIVE FILM FOLKS, LIVING 

OR DECEASED, YOU WOULD 

LOVE TO HAVE A 

CONVERSATION WITH

Living: 

Werner Herzog, George A. Romero, Agnes Varda, 

Christiane Kubrick, Terrence Malick

Deceased: 

Stanley Kubrick, Ingrid Bergman, Samuel Fuller, 

Orson Welles, Chris Farley