This is the poster of a 2014 film by an independent American filmmaker whose filmography includes the 1979 grindhouse classic Driller Killer, the 1981 rape-revenge film Ms. 45, the 1990 gangster film The King of New York and 1992’s Bad Lieutenant, about the final days of another controversial and visionary filmmaker and poet. Identify both.

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Abel Ferrara, Pier Paolo Pasolini

The following rules, known as the “Vow of Chastity” must be followed by a film in order for it to be certified as what?

Shooting must be done on location. Props and sets must not be brought in (if a particular prop is necessary for the story, a location must be chosen where this prop is to be found).The sound must never be produced apart from the images or vice versa. (Music must not be used unless it occurs where the scene is being shot.)The camera must be hand-held. Any movement or immobility attainable in the hand is permitted.The film must be in colour. Special lighting is not acceptable. (If there is too little light for exposure the scene must be cut or a single lamp be attached to the camera).Optical work and filters are forbidden.The film must not contain superficial action. (Murders, weapons, etc. must not occur.)Temporal and geographical alienation are forbidden. (That is to say that the film takes place here and now).Genre movies are not acceptable.The film format must be Academy 35 mm.The director must not be credited.

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This novel, the first in a pentalogy, revolves around a confrontation between two opposing supernatural groups (“the others”), one of which polices the activities of the Dark Others, and the other polices the activities of the Light Others. Made into a 2004 film, and its 2006 follow-up, both directed by Timur Bekmambetov, it was also the basis of a video game. Name the book/2004 film.

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X is the name of multiple fictional characters in comic books published by Marvel Comics. Each X is a supervillain in the Marvel Universe, with the first and latest appearing as prominent members of Iron Man's rogues gallery. The newest X (Ivan Vanko) is based on the version of the character that appears in the 2010 film Iron Man 2.

ID X.

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Whiplash

Scenes from the Suburbs is a half-hour short film directed by X, inspired by Arcade Fire’s Grammy-winning album The Suburbs. A shortened form of this film served as the music video for the single “The Suburbs” from the same album. This was the beginning of a collaboration between X and Arcade Fire that helped the members of the band secure a nomination for Best Original Score at the 86th Academy Awards. ID X.

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Spike Jonze

Which Nobel Prize-winning writer, primarily known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, and the title of one of whose more famous works derives from Book XI of Homer’s The Odyssey, also wrote many unproduced, and a few produced screenplays, including Gunga Din (1939, uncredited), To Have and Have Not (1944) and, most notably, The Big Sleep (1946)?

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William Faulkner

Which narrative device, coined in 1961 by Wayne C. Booth in The Rhetoric of Fiction, connects the following films (inexhaustive)?

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Detour (1945), Rashomon (1950), Fight Club (1999), A Beautiful Mind (2001).

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Unreliable narrator

This is a 1972 British horror anthology film, directed by Freddie Francis, based on an eponymous series of comic books, in which five strangers encounter a mysterious “horror host” who tells each in turn the manner of their death. However only two of the stories are actually from the comic books. ID.

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According to a popular story, X had asked to be tied to the mast of a steam-ship during a nocturnal storm at sea, and was there for four hours in order to experience the feeling required to paint this 1842 painting, the full title of which is ____ _____ - ____-____ ___ _ _______ _____ Signals in Shallow Water, and going by the Lead. The Author was in this Storm on the Night the “Ariel” left Harwich. Name the painter and the painting.

ANSWERJ.M.W. Turner, Snow Storm – Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth

The title of this book, about paraphilia in the USA, inspired the name of which band, who found it evocative of the cinematic movement it was associated with?

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The Velvet Underground

The name of which band, which means “grave” in Portuguese, was chosen after co-founder Max Cavalera translated the lyrics to the Motorhead song “Dancing on Your Grave”?

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Sepultura

The second studio album by The White Stripes was named after which art movement founded in 1917 in Amsterdam, which also provided inspiration for the album art? The album was dedicated to Blind Willie McTell, a blues singer, and Gerrit Ritvel, a major proponent of the movement who had designed the Ritvel Schroder House.

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De Stilj

The creator of which TV series, which has episodes titled “Burnt and Purged Away”, “To Be”, “To Thine Own Self” and “What a Piece of Work is Man”, all quotes taken from Hamlet, has creator Kurt Sutter said, “It was Jack’s father who started the club, so he’s the ghost in the action… It’s not a version of Hamlet but it’s definitely influenced by it”?

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The ______ Award is a Japanese award given since 2011 to comic books created outside Japan and translated to Japanese. The word ______ (short for gaikoku no manga, i.e. foreign manga) encompassing styles like American comics, Franco-Belgian comics and Korean manhwa, is incidentally eponymous with a major figure in the world of comics. ID.

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Gaiman Awards

Which novel, which inspired Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera in part and introduced the term for a man with dominating powers over a female protégé, also has a hat named after it that was originally won onstage by the lead actress during one of its adaptations?

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Trilby by George du Maurier

This scene, from a 1994 biopic X, depicts a chance encounter in which X meets Y, played by Vincent D’Onofrio in a cameo, who complains that Universal wants him to make a “thriller with Charlton Heston as a Mexican”. It is often debated whether this meeting actually happened or not , the general consensus being that the scene was fabricated to highlight the main question the film raises, i.e. whether or not an artist has validity even if he is a bad artist. Give X and Y.

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X – Ed WoodY – Orson Welles

Connect the term for “deliberately incorrect entries or articles in reference works such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps, and directories having no external source, often to detect plagiarism or copyright infringement” to a 2008 novel being made into an upcoming film.

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The title of this film, directed by Larry Cohen, about an infant that turns out to be a vicious mutant monster that kills when frightened, is derived from one of the most iconic lines in horror movies, uttered in a 1931 film. ID.

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It’s Alive!