Top 1000 films #1 by creedofhubris

Orson Welles directed and starred in Chimes at Midnight, which takes its dialogue from 5 different plays. WHAT IS THE MOVIE'S ALTERNATE TITLE, which is also the name of the character Welles plays?

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FILL IN THE XES from this 1978 movie review: “The wisdom of "A Woman of Paris," which was first released in 1923 but often feels as if it were made just yesterday, really does seem boundless; so do the affection and generosity with which Mr. XXXXXX presents his characters. The film, described by an introductory note from Mr. XXXXXXX as "the first serious drama written and directed by myself," has nothing of the Little YYYYY about it, although the director does appear in a tiny cameo role as a railway porter. Consequently, it was a commercial failure in its day. After that, it stayed out of circulation for more than 50 years, until Mr. XXXXXXX prepared a new score and allowed the film to be screened at the Museum of Modern Art two years ago.”

Predating the adoption of the 24-hour clock, THIS 1962 AGNES VARDA FILM features the title pop star, played by Corinne Marchand, awaiting a diagnosis and chatting up a soldier.

Robert Flaherty was notorious for embellishing his “documentaries” by adding what he felt were appropriate local touches. For Man of Aran, he hired outside fisherman to teach the islanders how to hunt WHAT SPECIES OF FISH, inaccurately identified in the film as the largest species to be found in the Atlantic Ocean, pictured here?

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Seasoned Japanese director Yasuhiro Ozu is perhaps best known for his “Noriko” trilogy, which features actress Setsuko Hara portraying a different young woman named Noriko in each film, and which ends with Tokyo Story. NAME EITHER OF THE OTHER TWO MOVIES that fall into this cycle.

WHO ARE THESE TWO ACTORS, whose characters have recently met on a train ride to Vienna?

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Originally based on the play “Parfumerie” and set at Matuschek and Company, THIS 1940 ERNST LUBITSCH FILM was remade as the broadway musical “She Loves Me”, as well as the 1949 film In The Good Old Summertime, and is the name of a bookstore owned by Meg Ryan in You’ve Got Mail.

Taking a new first name from a German silent film director and his last from a pulp author, WHICH JOURNALIST AND EDITOR AT CAHIERS DU CINEMA born Jean-Marie Maurice Schérer, was known for directing films in loose series such as “Comedies and Proverbs” and “Six Moral Tales”, of which the most famous in the US is My Night at Maud’s?

TWO ANSWERS REQUIRED: WHICH TITLE EVENTS of a 1939 film and its 1957 remake begin on board an ocean liner headed for New York, are interrupted due to an accident en route to the Empire State building, and recommence at an invalid’s apartment?

WHAT TYPE OF LOCATION is the main setting for the films Les Diaboliques, Les Quatre-Cents Buffes, and Zéro Pour Conduite?

WHO IS THIS MAN, a longtime companion as I watched films on the top 1000 list, who died in 2017?

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While L’Atalante, a drama about a difficult marriage and Paris nightlife, and The African Queen, an adventure story about outwitting Nazis in Tanganikya, are very different in tone and plot, they do share one similarity. WHAT DO THEIR TITLES REFER TO?