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The name of the film literally means "Sand woman," it is directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara. The surreal and, at times, absurd nature of The film has been compared to existentialist works such as Sartre's No Exit and Beckett's Happy Days. Aside from its intriguing premise, this film is notable for the life that Teshigahara brings to the ever-shifting sand, which almost becomes a character in its own right. Which film ?

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The Woman in the Dunes

2New techniques currently being developed in interactive movies, introduce an extra dimension into the experience of viewing movies, by allowing the viewer to change the course of the movie. In traditional linear movies, the author can carefully construct the plot, roles, and characters to achieve a specific effect on the audience. Interactive movies, introduce an extra dimension into the experience of viewing movies, by allowing the viewer to change the course of the movie. Where is this concept predominantly used ?

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Video games

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In his review of the film, X said ‘It's just science fiction, so it's allowed to be silly, and childish, and stupid. It's just science fiction, so it doesn't have to make sense. It's just science fiction, so you must ask nothing more of it than loud noises and flashing lights. That's the harm of Close Encounters; that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is’. His review was titled "The Reluctant Critic“ Who is X ?

3Isaac Asimov

4‘Twenty One’ scandal revealed that the quiz was rigged which is depicted in 1994 film ‘Quiz Show’. Contestant Herb Stempel testified that he had been ordered by producers to answer incorrectly to question ‘Who won the academy award for Best Picture in 1955?’, he answered “On The Waterfront”, which was wrong answer. What’s the right answer?

4Marty

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Connect (exhaustive)

5Films which beat Indian films at oscars.Nights of Cabiria – 1957 – Mother IndiaPelle The Conqueror – 1988 – Salaam BombayNo Man’s Land – 2002 - Lagaan

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This law is legislated by some states in the US. Colloquially known as "Make My Day Law“, which comes from the reference to a line uttered by Clint Eastwood's character Harry Callahan in the 1983 film Sudden Impact, "Go ahead, make my day”. What is its official name.

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Castle Doctrine

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This character was first played by Brian Cox but for the sequel Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro and Sean Connery were approached but they all turned down the role. X accepted it and won his only Academy award for the same role. Which character ?

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Hannibal LectorX is Anthony Hopkins

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After watching the unconventional, off-center camera techniques of his film, X praised "young Y," saying "He's the first one of us who doesn't see the proscenium arch." Or, to paraphrase, he was the first mainstream director to think outside the visual dynamics of the theater. X and Y ?

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X – Alfred HitchcockY – Steven SpielbergThe movie in question was Jaws

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• Robert Rich won the Oscar for ‘The Brave One’ in 1956 but was presented with a statuette in 1975.

• Ian Mclellan Hunter won the award in 1953 for Roman Holiday but in 1993 a statuette was awarded to someone else. Why ?

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• Dalton Trumbo.• Robert Rich was a fictional and Ian Mclellan Hunter was

a front.

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In the movie Hanna Tom Hollander is seen whistling this tune throughout the movie, why ? Composer and the song ?

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Devil Is In The Detail By Chemical Brothers. Song was especially composed for the film “Hanna”

11John Houston planned to make the film with Humphrey Bogart & Clark Gable. Then he thought of Burt Lancaster & Kirk Douglas, he later approached Paul Newman & Robert Redford but Newman suggested X & Y. This is the only film in which X & Y acted together and the only film in which Y has appeared with his wife who portrayed the character of Roxanne.

11X – Sean ConneryY – Michael Caine (wife is Shakira Caine)

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Dogme 95 is an avant-garde filmmaking movement started in 1995 by the Danish directors Thomas Vinterberg & X. This movement focuses on to create films based on the traditional values of story, acting and theme, excluding the use of elaborate special effects or technology. Who is X ?

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Lars Von Trier

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This is the only film in the Academy awards history to be a nominee in two separate non-consecutive years. It was a Best Foreign Film Nominee for 1966 and then a nominee for Best Screenplay and Direction in 1968. Name the film.

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The Battle of Algiers

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This film theory derived in part from Marxist film theory, semiotics & psychoanalysis was predominant during 1970s. It maintains that cinema is by nature ideological because its mechanics representation are ideological. It follows an institutional model of spectatorship. Which theory ?

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The Apparatus Theory

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She comes from the oldest family of Bollywood. But she is being launched as an actor in Karan Johar's upcoming film Student Of The Year and not by anyone in her family. Who is she or which family does she belong to ?

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Alia Bhatt

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Salman Rushdie calls X ‘a sci-fi masterpiece’ & has argued that this exploration of unreliability of the reality & the power of human unconsciousness, this great examination of the limits of rationalism & the perverse power of even most ill-fated love, needs to be seen as widely as possible before it is transformed by Steven Soderberg and James Cameroon into what they ludicrously threaten will be ‘2001 meets Last Tango in Paris’, What? Sex in space with floating butter ? Y must be turning over in his grave.

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X – SolarisY – Andrei Tarkovsky

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A term was coined to describe a British cultural movement theatre, art, novels, film and television plays, whose 'heroes' usually could be described as angry young men. It used a style of social realism, which often depicted the domestic situations of working class Britons living in rented accommodation and spending their off-hours drinking in grimy pubs, to explore social issues and political controversies. Most notable examples are Room At The Top, Billy Liar and Alfie (1966).

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Kitchen Sink Realism

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Aamir Khan apart from being an actor and a director is a writer as well, but so far he has written only one screenplay. Which film ?

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Hum Hain Rahi Pyaar Ke

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Sergio Corbucci was an Italian film director. He is best known for his very violent yet intelligent spaghetti westerns. He was for a long time considered an exploitation director, but has now attained a vast following and is easily compared to Sam Peckinpah or Sergio Leone. He was know better in the industry by his nickname, what was it ?

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‘The Other Sergio’

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Which film is being shot ?

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Siegfried by Fritz Lang

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X is a motion picture process in 1916 & most widely used in Hollywood from 1922 to 1952 for special purposes. It was most commonly used for filming musicals, costume pictures & animated films. The downfall of this process began in 1950s because of the new process created by Y. X and Y ?

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Eastman ColorTechnicolor

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Lyrics of this song were written by X but he felt uncomfortable while writing the english lyrics so he asked Y and Z to do it. X,Y and Z please ?

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X – Javed AkhtarY – Farhan AZ – Zoya A

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Connect.

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Entire cast nominated for Academy Awards. Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis - who's afraid of virginia woolfLaurence Olivier, Michael Caine – SleuthJames Whitmore - Give'em Hell Harry

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-------- Cinema was a documentary film movement that emerged in England in the mid-1950s. The term referred to an absence of propagandised intent or deliberate box office appeal. Co-founded by Lindsay Anderson, films were ‘-----' in the sense that they were made outside the confines of the film industry and were distinguished by their style and attitude and the conditions of production. FITB (one word)

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