Q 01/05

Which 2019 film was the first since Marty, over 60 years earlier, to win both the Palme d'Or and Best Picture?

A) Minari

B) Parasite

C) Decision to Leave

D) Memories of Murder

Answer · why

B) Parasite

Parasite was the first South Korean film to receive any Academy Award recognition. Its Palme d'Or also came on a unanimous jury vote, the first since ...

Q 02/05

Which 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet film has a shy young Parisian secretly engineer small joys for the people around her?

A) Delicatessen

B) A Very Long Engagement

C) Amélie

D) Micmacs

Answer · why

C) Amélie

Amélie's workplace, the Café des 2 Moulins at 15 Rue Lepic, is a real café. Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant wrote Audrey Tautou's heroine as ...

Q 03/05

Which Guillermo del Toro fantasy has a girl named Ofelia meet a faun in Francoist Spain in summer 1944?

A) The Devil's Backbone

B) Cronos

C) Pan's Labyrinth

D) The Orphanage

Answer · why

C) Pan's Labyrinth

Pan's Labyrinth's faun is not Pan, del Toro has insisted; the Spanish title El laberinto del fauno names the fauns of Roman myth. The film won three O...

Q 04/05

Which 2002 Brazilian film, cast largely with real favela residents, charts gang wars in a Rio housing project?

A) City of God

B) Elite Squad

C) Neighbouring Sounds

D) Bacurau

Answer · why

A) City of God

City of God earned four Oscar nominations, including Best Director for Fernando Meirelles. Most of its actors were residents of favelas such as Vidiga...

Q 05/05

Which brothers gave their first paid public film screening at Paris's Grand Café in December 1895?

A) Pathé

B) Lumière

C) Skladanowsky

D) Warner

Answer · why

B) Lumière

The Lumière brothers were beaten to a paying audience by Berlin's Skladanowsky brothers, whose Bioscop shows ran through November 1895. The Paris debu...