It's Quiz Time!
Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule has posted another quiz, so I feel compelled to give it a go. ymmv!
MISS JEAN BRODIE’S MODESTLY MAGNIFICENT, MATRIARCHALLY MANIPULATIVE SPRINGTIME-FOR-MUSSOLINI MOVIE QUIZ
1) The classic movie moment everyone loves
except me is:
Beyond the opening tracking shot, Touch of Evil.
2) Favorite line of dialogue from a film noir
“I wouldn't give you the skin off a grape.”
– Tommy Udo in Kiss of Death
3) Second favorite Hal Ashby film
I guess Shampoo (Harold and Maude is my favorite, natch)
4) Describe the moment when you first
realized movies were directed as opposed to simply pieced together anonymously.
For all the flaws, Intolerance. In particular The Babylonian sequence and
the chase/rescues from The Mother and the
Law and all the intercutting between the four stories.
5) Favorite film book
Kevin Brownlow’s The
Parade’s Gone By. (Cue gasps of surprise)
6) Diana Sands or Vonetta McGee?
Who?
7) Most egregious gap in your viewing of
films made in the past 10 years
Mr. Bean’s Holiday? ;-)
8) Favorite line of dialogue from a comedy
"Why do you have to paint everything so
black? Suppose you got hit by a truck. Suppose the stock market crashes.
Suppose Mary Pickford divorces Douglas Fairbanks. Suppose the Dodgers leave
Brooklyn!" – Some Like it Hot9) Second favorite Lloyd Bacon film
Marked Woman. (Fav is Footlight Parade)
10) Richard Burton or Roger Livesey?
Hands down, Roger Livesey.
11) Is there a movie you staunchly refuse to
consider seeing? If so, why?
I’ll get roasted over the coals for this, but 90% of silent
film slapstick comedies by 3rd rate comedians. I lack the slapstick gene, I’m sure it’s a boy
thing. I adore Keaton, love Lloyd and
some of Chaplin. Lloyd Hamilton, not so
much. Okay, so that means more than one movie. My bad.
12) Favorite filmmaker collaboration
Powell and Pressburger. Wilder and Brackett and Diamond. Hitchcock and Grant.
13) Most recently viewed movie on
DVD/Blu-ray/theatrical?
Douglas Fairbanks 1924 epic, The Thief of Bagdad (theatrical and home on blu-ray)
14) Favorite line of dialogue from a horror
movie
“Its Alive! It’s
Alive!”
15) Second favorite Oliver Stone film
The Doors
16) Eva Mendes or Raquel Welch?
Raquel Welch17) Favorite religious satire
Monty Python’s The Life of Brian
18) Best Internet movie argument? (question
contributed by Tom Block)
Pass
19) Most pointless Internet movie argument?
(question contributed by Tom Block)
Best 100 anything to do with film
20) Charles McGraw or Robert Ryan?
Robert Ryan
21) Favorite line of dialogue from a western
I was going to say “Candygram for Mongo,” but really it’s “Shane! Come Back!”
22) Second favorite Roy Del Ruth film
The Maltese Falcon
(1931) 
23) Relatively unknown film or filmmaker you’d
most eagerly proselytize for
Two silents I love that should be better known: The Shakedown from 1929 (William Wyler)
or Stella Dallas 1925 (Henry King)
24) Ewan McGregor or Gerard Butler?
Ewan McGregor
25) Is there such a thing as a perfect movie?
To me, 1941’s The
Maltese Falcon. Tightly scripted,
beautifully cast and acted, gorgeously photographed, good underscoring and not one
second too long. I do not care how many
times I’ve seen it, it never fails to please.
26) Favorite movie location you’ve most recently
had the occasion to actually visit
I pass by my favorite location every day on the way to work,
all seen in Vertigo, The Fairmont
Hotel, The Pacific Union Club and 1000 Mason Street. 
27) Second favorite Delmer Daves film
Destination Tokyo
28) Name the one DVD commentary you wish you
could hear that, for whatever reason, doesn't actually exist
Charles Laughton on Night
of the Hunter.
29) Gloria Grahame or Marie Windsor?
Tough one! I’ll go
with Gloria Grahame who could go from Sudden
Fear to Oklahoma and still
delight me.
30) Name a filmmaker who never really lived up
to the potential suggested by their early acclaim or success
I’ll get killed for this, too. Francis Ford Coppola. Well, he lived up to it and then completely obliterated it. ymmv.
31) Is there a movie-based disagreement serious
enough that it might cause you to reevaluate the basis of a romantic relationship or a
friendship?
Nope, because it’s only a movie.
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