Match the film quote
"Look at me, jerking off in the shower. This will be the highlight of my day"
Kevin Spacey in American Beauty
Christian Bale in American Psycho
John Cusack in High Fidelity
Tom Hanks in Toy Story 2
"I am the drum on which God is beating out His message"
Ridley Scott in Gladiator
Angelina Jolie in Girl, Interrupted
Milla Jovovich in Joan of Arc
Denzel Washington in The Hurricane
"Are we shooting people or what?"
Spike Jonze in Three Kings
Tommy Lee Jones in Space Cowboys
Jason Statham in Snatch
Mel Gibson in The Patriot
Awards and festivals Which film was booed when it scooped the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival?
Girl Fight
Vatel
In the Mood for Love
Dancer in the Dark
In Kevin Spacey's Oscar acceptance speech for American Beauty, which actor in which film did he cite as his direct inspiration?
Humphrey Bogart in The Harder they Fall
Jack Lemmon in The Apartment
James Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life
Spencer Tracy in Woman of the Year
What was the name of the sponsor for this year's London Film Festival and what do they actually do?
Rigus, a company which provides projection equipment to cinemas across Europe
Rugus, the film industry's leading supplier of wigs for period movies
Regus, a company which provides furnished offices for media businesses
Rogus, who arrange corporate hospitality for members of the international film industry
Love matches Which Hollywood couple sold the exclusive wedding rights to their wedding for a reported $1m and then sued another publication for printing them?
Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones
Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston
Drew Barrymore and Tom Green
Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor
Which of the following women did NOT have a baby this year?
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Jennifer Lopez
Kate Winslet
Madonna
How did a troubled Angelina Jolie spend the night before her Las Vegas wedding to Billy Bob Thornton?
She drank a bottle of vodka while watching a collection of Thornton's films on video and later explained: "I was crying the whole way through, because my man looked so beautiful."
She ordered Thornton's name tattooed on "a place no-one but he can see" and later explained: "This way he's with me forever."
She blew $62,000 on a roulette table and later explained: "I figured that marriage is a gamble so I'd better learn to take the rough with the smooth."
She checked in overnight at a local hospital and later explained: "I wasn't thinking clearly, but I didn't want to hurt myself or anyone else."
Reviewing the reviewers "This is a witless, half-baked enterprise, soulless and inert. Its spirit is perhaps summed up in the American's line: 'It's just a £2 cab fare from Carnaby Street to Bethnal Green, but it's another world'" The Observer's Philip French reviewing which British gangster flick?
Rancid Aluminium
Essex Boys
Honest
Snatch
Which film did the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw refer to as: "One of funniest, cleverest films of the year, a Fabergé egg of comic delight?"
Being John Malkovich
Meet the Parents
Nurse Betty
Me, Myself and Irene
"Leaden and conservative... it's all too cosy and self-satisfied for comfort." Film Unlimited's Xan Brooks takes issue with which much-praised movie?
American Beauty
Chicken Run
Billy Elliot
Toy Story 2
Casting news Which of the following projects was Kevin Spacey NOT rumoured to be attached to at some stage in the past twelve months?
The Mask 2
The Pink Panther
Ocean's Eleven
K-PAX
Who recently signed up to play the Green Goblin in the forthcoming Spider-Man picture?
Mickey Rourke
John Malkovich
Willem Dafoe
Nicolas Cage
Which of the following British actors has NOT been cast in the eagerly anticipated Harry Potter film?
Alan Rickman
Maggie Smith
Robbie Coltrane
Joseph Fiennes
Film feuds A top director branded his female star a "mad woman" and claimed that she once tried to "eat her costume" during filming? Name the director/star/film?
Lars Von Trier, describing Bjork on Dancer in the Dark
Bruce Paltrow, describing Gwyneth Paltrow on Duets
Bryan Singer, describing Anna Paquin on X-Men
Ron Howard, describing seven year-old Taylor Momsen on The Grinch
Universal studios were annoyed when Mike Myers walked off their film, Dieter. According to a bizarre lawsuit, what tactics did the studio allegedly resort to in order to force him back on set?
It threatened to leak fictitious stories about him to the tabloids and "organised a meeting between Myers and a man who, it transpired, was a well-known prostitute"
It promised "to ruin [him] in this business" and sent him a memo stating: "By the time we're through, you'll be back doing stand-up in Canada"
It hired goons to stalk the actor and "chase [him] in a threatening manner down dark, winding and unlit streets"
It ordered his lunch box to be kicked across the studio lot, put drawing pins on his chair and "harassed him with prank phone-calls"
Which British film-maker described the films of Guy Ritchie as "crap" and argued that, with Snatch, the director had succumbed to "the pornography of violence"?
Ridley Scott
Richard Attenborough
Mike Leigh
Alan Parker
Cyber cinema Which two Hollywood film-makers co-founded the failed Internet venture Pop.com?
Ridley Scott and Tony Scott
Steven Soderbergh and Paul Thomas Anderson
George Lucas and Jeffrey Katzenberg
Ron Howard and Steven Spielberg
Film student Joe Nussbaum had a word-of-mouth hit when his spoof short George Lucas in Love premiered on the web this year. Which of the subsequent events is NOT true?
Amazon began distributing the film, which was at one stage out-selling copies of The Phantom Menace
Joe Nussbaum landed a deal to direct his first Hollywood feature
Steven Spielberg sent a copy to Lucas who described it as "the life story I wish I had"
A spoof of the spoof, entitled George Bush in Love, debuted on the web and proved an even bigger traffic generator
Which major director will create a series of "webisodes" about a bungling superhero called Stain Boy exclusively for the net?
Ingmar Bergman
Spike Jonze
Tim Burton
David Lynch
Box office turkeys On average, how much did the All Saints movie Honest make per cinema when it opened in May?
£2.50
£20,000
£6,500
£500
Wim Wenders' The Million Dollar Hotel opened in the UK to scathing reviews and feeble box office. On what did Wenders blame his film's failure?
Sunny weather on its opening weekend
The basic cynicism of British film-goers
Inept distributors who mistakenly marketed the film as a comedy
Complete incompetence on his part: "I buggered it"
Mischievous technicians on which film turkey put together a mock poster bearing a selection of (genuine) review quotes which included: "May well turn out to be the worst movie of this century" (New York Times) and "A million monkeys with a million crayons would be hard-pressed in a million years to create anything as cretinous as [this film]" (Washington Post)?
Joan of Arc
Mission to Mars
Battlefield Earth
Red Planet
Name that movie A screen split into four segments charts the overlapping experiences of a group of players in modern-day Hollywood. What was the film's title?
Time Code
The Talented Mr Ripley
Magnolia
American Movie
The advertising tag-line asserted that: "This ain't no chick flick!" Name the flick in question
Angela's Ashes
Coyote Ugly
Chicken Run
Charlie's Angels
An impoverished widow converts her greenhouse into a marijuana plantation. The poster said this film was a "joint venture that will have you rolling in the aisles". What film are they talking about?
Big Momma's House
The Next Best Thing
The Wind Will Carry Us
Saving Grace
The end is near... Which of these actors did NOT die in 2000?
Alec Guinness
Walter Matthau
Oliver Reed
Richard Farnsworth
John Gielgud passed away in May, aged 96. What did he consider his three greatest screen roles?
Julius Caesar, Becket and Gandhi
The Shoes of the Fisherman, The Browning Version and The Elephant Man
The Wicked Lady, Shining Through and Arthur 2: On the Rocks
Providence, Brideshead Revisited and Prospero's Books
Which actress who died this year once remarked: "My problem is that I'm a hell of a nice dame. The most horrible whores are famous. I did what I did for love. The others did it for money"?
Loretta Young
Francis Lederer
Sylvia Sidney
Hedy Lamarr
