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Decode the Director's Signature
Every auteur has a fingerprint. Can you spot who held the clapperboard just from their habits, obsessions and quirks? Test your director IQ now.
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20 questions
~7 min
What this quiz asks
- Which director is known for the 'trunk shot', filming characters from inside a car boot?
- Stanley Kubrick shot the candlelit scenes of Barry Lyndon with lenses originally made for NASA.
- The 'Spielberg face' is a trademark shot of a character doing what?
- Did Christopher Nolan crash a real Boeing 747 into a building for Tenet instead of using CGI?
- How many feature films did Stanley Kubrick direct?
- Select ALL of these films directed by David Lynch.
- Which director composed the synthesiser scores for many of his own films, including Halloween and The Fog?
- Order these directors by birth year, oldest first.
- Which director had a real steamship hauled over a hill in the Peruvian jungle for Fitzcarraldo?
- Alfred Hitchcock made a cameo in Lifeboat, even though the whole film takes place on a small boat.
- Did Ingmar Bergman shoot several films on the island of Fårö, where he later lived?
- In what year did Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon win the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival?
- Which director is famous for perfectly symmetrical, centred compositions?
- Select ALL of these directors who won the Palme d'Or twice between 1980 and 2020.
- Which director filmed so many westerns in Monument Valley that a lookout there is named after him?
- Order these Christopher Nolan films by release year, earliest first.
- Which director co-founded the Dogme 95 movement with Thomas Vinterberg?
- Sergio Leone shot the desert landscapes of his Dollars westerns in the American West.
- Does Spike Lee's signature 'double dolly' shot make a character seem to float through the scene?
- In what year did Alfred Hitchcock shoot The Pleasure Garden, his first completed film as director?