MOVIE QUIZ How many

Movie Quiz

Know the Quote

Over its 40 years of existence, the Mill Valley Film Festival has screened thousands of acclaimed and highly quotable movies. How many of these can you identify from chosen lines alone? Clues are given; answers are provided below. BY DAVID TEMPLETON

1“YOU ARE THE MOST OBEDIENT MAN I’VE EVER MET IN MY LIFE. LOOK AT ME! AREN’T

YOU?” Shirley Knight to James Caan, in this early film by Francis Ford Coppola. The movie, originally released in 1969, was screened during MVFF’s inaugural year, 1977, at a tribute to Coppola and George Lucas. 6 “ALBANIA’S HARD TO RHYME.” Willie Nelson, playing a drunken songwriter hired to write a fake song about a fake war, in the 1997 film by Barry Levinson.

2 “IT’S NOT THAT THEY’RE STUPID. IT’S JUST

THAT THEY DON’T KNOW ANYTHING.” Edward James Olmos, as real-life teacher Jaime Escalante, in describing his math students in this inspirational 1988 drama co-written and directed by Ramón Menendez.

7 “WELL, WE’RE SAFE FOR NOW. THANK GOODNESS WE’RE IN A BOWL

ING ALLEY.” J.T. Walsh to a panicked group of 1950s-era men whose wives all failed to make them dinner that night, in Gary Ross’s 1998 fable about changing American morality.

3“GO ON, CHRISTY. GO ON,

MAKE YOUR MARK.” Brenda Fricker to young Hugh O’Conor, in this 1989 Jim Sheridan film that went on to give Daniel Day Lewis his first Academy Award for Best Actor.

4“HMMM … HEADS. HEADS. HEADS. HEADS. HEADS. HEADS. HEADS. HEADS.

HEADS. HEADS.” Gary Oldman to Tim Roth, in the opening moments of this 1990 movie, directed by Tom Stoppard, and adapted from his own 1966 play.

8“YOU KEEP ON ROWIN’, AND I’LL

KEEP ON SMILIN’.” Sally Hawkins to Alexis Zegerman, while in an actual rowboat at the end of Mike Leigh’s 2008 crowd-pleaser about a stubbornly optimistic English schoolteacher.

9“IT’S NO SLURPEE.” James Franco, to his camera, describing a queasy attempt at drinking his own urine in Danny Boyle’s 2010 drama about a true-life rock-climbing accident in the desert.

5“I’M LOUD, DARLING,

BUT NEVER CHEAP.” Jaye Davidson to Stephen Rea, in Neil Jordan’s 1992 thriller with one of the biggest twists in cinematic history.

10 “DON’T WORRY ABOUT IT. IT’S JUST THE FIRST 100 YEARS THAT ARE TOUGH.”

Shahab Hosseini, translated from the original Iranian, in this Oscar-nominated 2016 drama that became a focus of the Trump administration’s travel ban when the director, Asghar Farhadi, elected not to attend the Academy Awards in protest.

6. Wag the Dog. 7. Pleasantville. 8. Happy-Go-Lucky. 9. 127 Hours. 10. The Salesman (Forushande). 1. The Rain People. 2. Stand and Deliver. 3. My Left Foot. 4. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. 5. The Crying Game.