Okay, I have like no time today. Should have prepared this yesterday. So today, we’re posting trivia questions in a round robin.
If you answer a question, you can post a question. Here’s the twist: Every movie must have a place name in the title. I’ll start:
Based on a true story, which became a fictional play, which became a movie with one or two songs (but not really a musical), which became a musical play, which became a musical movie.
Chicago. My turn?
Go for it.
I’m worried this is too oblique, but here we go:
Another gangland and jazz picture. The director also directed another, more famous movie that meets today’s rule, and the lead actress also starred in four consecutive movies that meet the rule; this was the second of the four.
Hmm…At first I thought it was New York, New York, but Liza Minelli doesn’t fit the bill. Gonna have to cogitate.
Kansas City? The more famous movie being Nashville?
Ah, and now I understand the part about the actress.
(Who cares! New House tonight… sans the Scoobies!)
(I kid. I care. It’s just my first guess was wrong too, but I’m keeping quiet about it ’cause it’s a good one to use.)
Yes, Tom’s turn.
Okay, this one may be easy: a dystopian satire that takes place thousands of miles from the location in its title.
Brazil?
The City of Lost Children?
That didn’t take long; Roberta has it.
Holy crap! That is so not my movie (compared to the way people are all about that movie).
I can never tell if I’m giving too much away… it’s hard when you know the answer.
Jazz. New York. Mega-famous director. Music but I don’t consider it a musical (but maybe I’m wrong.) The film was a gorgeous, star-studded train wreck, both on and off-screen. Female lead has worked steadily since childhood, and finally got her props (and an Oscar nom) a few years ago in a film with the same male lead.
Cotton Club?
Is it The Cotton Club
Argh! Beaten by LESS than a minute this time!
See? I gave too much away. I think I blew it with ‘train wreck’.
Tom, you’re up. Or you could pass to Mel.
I’ll let Mel post one…I’ve got one in reserve for later, assuming I guess correctly again…
Shoot, too busy at work to get one I knew–in fact, I was thinking Cotton Club since the Kansas City question…..
Thanks, Tom. Here’s a simple one (or difficult, if you haven’t seen it): A married couple takes a trip to the titular city to visit their adult children. That’s it, that’s the whole plot. It’s also on my personal list of 10 greatest movies of all time (if anyone cares. 🙂 )
Tokyo Story?
George is correct!
Tokyo Story is a great film, indeed, but you have to be in the mood for it. The first time I tried to watch it I was too antsy and had to give up, but the second time I found it sublime.
Ok–this Oscar-nominated film, based on a photograph, includes the line “I didn’t realize there were two 10 o’clocks in the same day.”
A Great Day in Harlem?
Edit: oh, duh–it could be the obvious
Flags of Our FathersLetters from Iwo Jima.Nope, you got it with the un-obvious (well, sort of–you did get the answer fast) Harlem.
Okay…this movie fictionalizes the history of a particular city, but the title location is not unique to that city.
Forget it, Tom, it’s Chinatown.
Nice incorporating of the quote, George.
Speaking of quotes, name the movie this one comes from: “I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me. “
That’s the one with Bogey and Gloria Graham where he’s a writer, but the name eludes me.
In A Lonely Place
Right!
And of course that quote was incorporated almost verbatim in the Smithereens song of the same name.
And yeah, Chinatown is correct.
I hope it’s ok my place name was “lonely place,” but I figured if we’re all bloggers we’ve all been there.
In this movie, a legendary filmmaker returns to his childhood, typically re-imagined. He also made two other films with place-name titles.
Easy! Liberty Heights.
Liberty Heights, dir. by Barry Levinson?
D’oh! Beaten by one minute!
It does fit, if you consider Barry Levinson legendary, but that’s not the movie or moviemaker I was thinking of.
Well, Neil Simon is legendary as a playwright…do you mean Brighton Beach Memoirs?
No, not Neil Simon.
I’m leaving work in 45 minutes, and won’t be back at a computer for a long period (long commute), so I’d better give a clue.
It’s not an American movie.
Scorsese? New York Stories?
D’OH. Never mind.
It’s a stretch, but Fellini’s Roma?
It’s a stretch, but Fellini’s Roma?
You’re almost there! 🙂
!!! Cinema Paradiso !!!
No.
But … but … it’s a theater! It qualifies as a place!