Withington Pub Quiz League - ACQ - Picture Round - 15/11/15

Date of compilation	Title	Description	Links
15/11/2015	French Cinema	Philip French, who died in 2015, was for many years The Observer’s film critic. In 2008 he compiled a list of what he considered the best 50 pictures of the last 50 years – 10 from each decade from the 1960s to the 2000s. 15 of these films (3 from each decade) have been chosen for this round. For each film a still image is shown alongside French’s brief description of the film. Name each film, and its Director.	Questions without Answers
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1.		2.
	1960s “A great Western, an allegory about Vietnam. It raised the ante on screen violence like no other film.”		1970s “Australian cinema establishes itself on the world scene.”
	The Wild Bunch – Sam Peckinpah		Picnic at Hanging Rock – Peter Weir
3.		4.
	1980s “One of greatest British Directors revisits his second world war childhood”		1990s “One of the best Hollywood-on-Hollywood movies.”
	Hope and Glory – John Boorman		The Player – Robert Altman
5.		6.
	2000s “A stunning diptych about the second world war from the Hollywood veteran.” (2 film titles required - same director)		1960s “The zeitgeist as gangster film.”
	Flags of Our Fathers/Letters from Iwo Jima – Clint Eastwood		Bonnie and Clyde – Arthur Penn
7.		8.
	1970s “The most overwhelming film to emerge from Vietnam.”		1980s “One of the best Thatcher’s Britain’s movies.”
	Apocalypse Now – Francis Ford Coppola		My Beautiful Laundrette – Stephen Frears
9.		10.
	1990s “A landmark in populist, personal, post-modernist cinema.”		2000s “Tragic epic with a towering performance from Daniel Day-Lewis.”
	Pulp Fiction – Quentin Tarantino		There Will Be Blood – Paul Thomas Anderson
11.		12.
	1960s “The American exile, the emerging playwright and the ambivalent actor interrogate the new Britain.”		1970s “Jack Nicholson in a great road movie.”
	The Servant – Joseph Losey		Five Easy Pieces – Bob Rafelson
13.		14.
	1980s “Astonishing debut thriller – it’s background the Northern Ireland troubles.”		1990s “One of the finest portraits of family life.”
	Angel – Neil Jordan		Secrets and Lies – Mike Leigh
15.
	2000s “The poised fraternal ironists excel themselves.”
	No Country For Old Men – Joel & Ethan Coen