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Seventies Cinema and New Hollywood
Bold directors, gritty streets and studios that let the rebels run the show. Grab your flares and find out how well you know the wild decade of New Hollywood.
🎬 Movies
hard
20 questions
~8 min
What this quiz asks
- Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper ride these across America in which 1969 film?
- Chinatown (1974) is a mystery built around a scandal over which resource in 1930s Los Angeles?
- Which Woody Allen comedy beat Star Wars to the Best Picture Oscar?
- Apocalypse Now (1979) moves which Joseph Conrad story to the Vietnam War?
- Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971) adapts a novel by which British writer?
- Jaws (1975) was the first feature film Steven Spielberg directed for cinemas.
- The Sting (1973) reunited Paul Newman and Robert Redford, who had starred together in which 1969 western?
- In All the President's Men (1976), who plays reporter Carl Bernstein alongside Robert Redford's Bob Woodward?
- Did Robert De Niro win an Oscar for playing the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II (1974)?
- Select ALL of these 1970s films that were directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
- Which 1972 thriller follows four city men on a canoe trip down a wild river in Georgia?
- Midnight Cowboy (1969) is the only X-rated film ever to win the Oscar for Best Picture.
- Order these films by release year, earliest first.
- Which 1971 black-and-white film by Peter Bogdanovich is set in a fading small town in Texas?
- Select ALL of these actors who appear in both The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974).
- Who wrote the screenplay of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976)?
- Which Paramount production chief oversaw The Godfather and went on to produce Chinatown?
- Terrence Malick shot much of Days of Heaven (1978) at which time of day?
- In what year did Bonnie and Clyde, often seen as the spark of New Hollywood, reach cinemas?
- Which 1980 western by Michael Cimino became a byword for runaway budgets and helped sink United Artists?