Thursday, March 18, 2004

Answers to the World's Hardest Movie Quiz by Michael Atkinson

The Village Voice: Film: "the climactic spoken words (1) belonged to Psycho (A), Ashes of Time (B), Grand Illusion (C), 2001: A Space Odyssey (D), Woman in the Dunes (E), Champion (F), The Last Detail (G), The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (H), and L'Avventura (I). Breathless (2) had its final subtitle restored from the cryptic 'A little what? I don't understand.' to the fabulously wry 'What's a scumbag?' The first Arab feature film (3) was The Girl From Carthage, made in Tunisia in 1924. The peak moment for working movie theaters in the U.S. (4) was 1929, with over 23,350 one-screen establishments cranking away. "

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