Re: Game #167: Ready for My Close-Up
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2017 7:06 am
All the matches and partials on this are correct. One definite answer is wrong - the lead character did not appear in any other movies - and the one with a question mark is also wrong.
mellytu74 wrote:I think this is everything.... There are some directors for whom we don't have a second movie yet (Cukor, Lubitsch, Clarence Brown, etc.) who I am sure are here.
Identify the 140 movies below. Match them into 100 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Sixty movies will be used twice, each time in a different capacity.
Tangredi … Director of a film (and a film title contained within another film)
Matches
Albert Brooks = 51. MOTHER (WAS A FRESHMAN) and 84. LOST IN AMERICA
Alfred Hitchcock = 135. (RANCHO) NOTORIOUS and 46. NORTH BY NORTHWEST
John Frankenheimer = 96. (THROW MAMMA FROM) THE TRAIN and 125. THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE
The Coen Brothers = 33. (WELLS) FARGO and 94. RAISING ARIZONA
Billy Wilder = 34. WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION and 111. (THE TAKING OF PELHAM) ONE TWO THREE
Tod Browning = 62. DRACULA and 116. (EIGHT LEGGED) FREAKS
Robert Aldrich = 69. FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX and 82. (AMERICAN) HUSTLE
Orson Welles = 140. CITIZEN KANE and 31. THE TRIAL (OF BILLY JACK)
Steven Spielberg = 78. CATCH ME IF YOU CAN and 29. (NIGHT TRAIN TO) MUNICH
William Wyler = 79. THE BIG COUNTRY and 25. (VALIANT IS THE WORD FOR) CARRIE
William Wellman = 107. THE STORY OF GI JOE and 21. (I WANTED) WINGS
Penny Marshall = 60. A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN and 79. BIG (COUNTRY)
Gregory LaCava = 124. MY MAN GODFREY and 61. STAGE DOOR (CANTEEN)
WS Van Dyke = 87. MANHATTAN MELODRAMA and 39. (HOMEWARD BOUND II: LOST IN) SAN FRANCISCO
Vincente Minnelli = 88. THE BAND WAGON and 53. (ROCK AROUND ) THE CLOCK
Howard Hughes = 70. THE OUTLAW (JOSEY WALES) and 130. HELL'S ANGELS
Costa Gavras = 91. Z and 13. (BUNNY LAKE IS) MISSING
FW Murnau = 77. THE LAST LAUGH and 58. (BEFORE) SUNRISE
Rob Reiner = 46. NORTH (BY NORTHWEST) and 132. STAND BY ME
Blake Edwards = 45. DARLING LILI and 90. 10 (THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU)
Mike Nichols = 85. (HOUR OF THE)WOLF and 32. POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE
Joshua Logan = 11. CAMELOT and 73. PICNIC (AT HANGING ROCK)
Frank Perry = 122. (SUDDENLY) LAST SUMMER and 12. MOMMIE DEAREST
Oliver Stone = 105. ALEXANDER (NEVSKY) and 28. PLATOON
John Cassavetes = 71. THE KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE and 40. HUSBANDS (AND WIVES)
Jane Campion = 75. THE PIANO (TEACHER) and 23. BRIGHT STAR
Henry King = 64. IN OLD CHICAGO and 41. (MEET DANNY) WILSON
Sam Wood = 117. (FOR LOVE OF) IVY and 72. A NIGHT AT THE OPERA
Jonathan Demme = 134. PHILADELPHIA (STORY) and 18. SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
Otto Preminger = 59. (THE EYES OF) LAURA and13. BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING
Victor Sjostrom = 67. Swedish movie and 138. (GONE WITH) THE WIND
Frank Lloyd - 33. WELLS FARGO and 93. (HOLLYWOOD) CAVALCADE
John Huston - 4. THE MALTESE FALCON and 110. (DAWN OF ) THE DEAD
George Stevens - 5. TALK OF THE TOWN and 129. (GENTLE) GIANT
Mervyn LeRoy - 43. GYPSY (MOTHS) and 120. RANDOM HARVEST
David Lean - 8. THE BRIDGE ....RIVER KWAI and 121. (IN THE GOOD OLD) SUMMERTIME
Joe Mankiewicz - 65. CLEOPATRA (JONES) and 122. SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER
Luchino Visconti = 36. (VILLAGE OF ) THE DAMNED and 101. DEATH IN VENICE
Andrew Davis = 99. THE FUGITIVE (KIND) and 37. COLLATERAL DAMAGE
Louis Malle = 37. (COLLATERAL) DAMAGE and 81. VANYA ON 42ND STREET
Ridley Scott = 112. ALIEN (NATION) and 26. THELMA AND LOUISE
Richard Lester = 97. (THE GIRL CAN'T) HELP and 16. SUPERMAN II
Ben Affleck = 106. ARGO and 5. (TALK OF) THE TOWN
David Fincher = 139. (RULES OF) THE GAME and 50. THE SOCIAL NETWORK
Martin Ritt = 56. MURPHY'S ROMANCE and 103. THE FRONT (PAGE)
F. Gary Gray = 30. (HIS GIRL) FRIDAY and 133. STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON
Josef von Sternberg = 109. THE BLUE ANGEL and 54. (ROAD TO) MOROCCO
Lloyd Bacon = 81. (VANYA ON) 42ND STREET and 51. MOTHER WAS A FRESHMAN
Woody Allen = 40. HUSBANDS AND WIVES and 87. MANHATTAN (MELODRAMA)
John Schlesinger = 45. DARLING (LILI) and 136. MIDNIGHT COWBOY
Mitchell Leisen = 136. MIDNIGHT (COWBOY) and 21. I WANTED WINGS
Peter Weir = 34. WITNESS (FOR THE PROSECUTION) and 73. PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK
Stanley Kubrick + 114. (FEMALE) ON THE BEACH and 68. IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD
POSSIBLE PARTIALS
20. A FACE IN THE CROWD = THE CROWD (King Vidor directed this and the Joel McCrea Billy the Kid but that’s two parens, so it doesn’t work)
38. PATHS OF GLORY = GLORY = Zwick
44. MICHAEL CLAYTON = MICHAEL
64. IN OLD CHICAGO = CHICAGO
123. STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER = STRIPES
63. THE HARVEY GIRLS = HARVEY
Movies
1. THE GENERAL
2. BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID
3. HIROSHIMA, MON AMOR
*4. THE MALTESE FALCON
**5. TALK OF THE TOWN
6. MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
7. This movie about drug addiction was based on a Broadway hit by a playwright who, seventeen years later, would earn an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
*8. THE BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KWAI
9. Many of the scenes in this movie were filmed through a mirror, since the actor playing the lead role couldn’t quite manage to live up to the title of the movie.
10. JOY LUCK CLUB
*11. CAMELOT
*12. MOMMIE DEAREST
**13. BUNNy LAKE IS MISSING
14. KINDERGARTEN COP
15. THIS SPORTING LIFE
*16. SUPERMAN II
17. PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID
*18. SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
19. To ward off threatened protests by the American Legion, Columbia Pictures made a short film to accompany this movie in which business professors decried its iconic lead character. (Ah, the 1950s….)
DEATH OF A SALESMAN
20. A FACE IN THE CROWD
**21. I WANTED WINGS
22. BEING JOHN MALKOVICH
*23. BRIGHT STAR
24. AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON
*25. VALIANT IS THE WORD FOR CARRIE
*26. THELMA AND LOUISE
27. THE BAKER'S WIFE
*28. PLATOON
*29. NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH
30. HIS GIRL FRIDAY
31. THE TRIAL OF BILLY JACK
*32. POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE
**33. WELLS FARGO
**34. WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION
35. The fourth installment of a highly lucrative franchise, it was actually based on an award-winning fantasy novel unrelated to the rest of the series.
*36. VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED
**37. COLLATERAL DAMAGE
38. PATHS OF GLORY
*39. HOMEWARD BOUND II: LOST IN SAN FRANCISCO
**40. HUSBANDS AND WIVES
*41. MEET DANNY WILSON
42. ROCKY
*43. THE GYPSY MOTHS
44. MICHAEL CLAYTON
*45. DARLING LILI
**46. NORTH BY NORTHWEST
47. BOUDU SAVED FROM DROWNING
48. THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER
49. A CERTAIN SMILE
*50. THE SOCIAL NETWORK
**51. MOTHER WAS A FRESHMAN
52. THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER
*53. ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK
*54. ROAD TO MOROCCO
55. The subject of this biopic was posthumously inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame four years before the movie was released.
GENTLEMAN JIM?
*56. MURPHY'S ROMANCE
57. THE RETURN OF MARTIN GUERRE
*58. BEFORE SUNRISE
*59. THE EYES OF LAURA MARS
*60. A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN
*61. STAGE DOOR CANTEEN
*62. DRACULA
*63. THE HARVEY GIRLS
*64. IN OLD CHICAGO
*65. CLEOPATRA JONES
*66. SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS
67. This 1921 horror film is perhaps the greatest masterpiece of Sweden’s Golden Age.
SOME SJOSTROM MOVIE
*68. IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD
*69. FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX
*70. THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES
*71. THE KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE
*72. A NIGHT AT THE OPERA
**73. PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK
74. LOVE AND OTHER DRUGS
*75. THE PIANO TEACHER
76. THE NAKED GUN
*77. THE LAST LAUGH
*78. CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
**79. THE BIG COUNTRY
80. AIR FORCE ONE
**81. VANYA ON 42ND STREET
*82. AMERICAN HUSTLE
83. BLACK SWAN
*84. LOST IN AMERICA
85. HOUR OF THE WOLF
*86. JULIE AND JULIA
**87. MANHATTAN MELODRAMA
*88. THE BAND WAGON
89. With the release of this film, its creator became the first American animator since Disney to have two financial successes in a row.
*90. 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU
*91. Z
92. THE SOUND OF MUSIC
93. HOLLYWOOD CAVALCADE
*94. RAISING ARIZONA
95. GREY GARDENS
*96. THROW MOMMA FROM THE TRAIN
*97. THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT
98. KING KONG
*99. THE FUGITIVE KIND
100. UP IN SMOKE
*101. DEATH IN VENICE
102. DIE ANOTHER DAY
*103. THE FRONT PAGE
104. CHINATOWN
*105. ALEXANDER NEVTSKY
*106. ARGO
*107. THE STORY OF GI JOE
108. THE MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE
*109. THE BLUE ANGEL
*110. DAWN OF THE DEAD
*111. THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE (original)
*112. ALIEN NATION
113. THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME
*114. FEMALE ON THE BEACH
115. HAMLET (Kenneth Branagh version)
*116. EIGHT LEGGED FREAKS
*117. FOR LOVE OF IVY
118. SECRETS AND LIES
119. OUTSIDE PROVIDENCE
*120. RANDOM HARVEST
*121. IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME
**122. SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER
123. STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER
*124. MY MAN GODFREY
*125. THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE
126. THE LIFE OF PI
127. COPS AND ROBBERSONS
128. NATIONAL VELVET
*129. GENTLE GIANT
*130. HELL'S ANGELS
131. DEATH BECOMES HER
*132. STAND BY ME
*133. STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON
*134. THE PHILADELPHIA STORY
**135. RANCHO NOTORIOUS
**136. MIDNIGHT COWBOY
137. THE GOLD RUSH
*138. GONE WITH THE WIND
*139. RULES OF THE GAME
*140. CITIZEN KANE