4. Salaam Bombay; the five nominees for the Best
Foreign Film at the 61st Academy Awards in 1988.
5. 2. X, born in 1940, has made over 40
films, including shorts and documentaries. X’s
first film was The Bread and Alley, released in
1970, which talks of a young boy with a loaf of
bread who encounters a hungry dog. X is
known for his stories in rural
villages, and, most notably, conversations that
take place inside cars. X has often been
compared to Ray, Rohmer and Tati, among
11. 4. In a letter to the author, Barack Obama
described X, a novel, as, “an elegant proof of
God, and the power of storytelling”. X was
published by Knopf Canada, after numerous
rejections by London publishers. X is set in
1977. Self(1996) and Beatrice and Virgil(2004)
are other novels by X’s author. Id X.
14. 5. X’s (a 1957 movie) title translates idiomatically to an
underrated gem of a place ,often with personal or
sentimental value. Apparently, X was drawn up on a
drive from to Dalarna. The director spoke thus of the
movie, “So it struck me — what if you could make a
film about this; that you just walk up in a realistic way
and open a door, and then you walk into your
childhood, and then you open another door and come
back to reality, and then you make a turn around a
street corner and arrive in some other period of your
existence, and everything goes on, lives. That was
actually the idea behind X.” X won the Golden Bear. X
influenced Woody Allen’s 1988 movie Another Woman.
X was also very highly rated by Kubrick. Id X.
17. 6. The X test is a test to gauge whether a
computer-based synthesized voice can tell
a joke with sufficient skill to cause people
to laugh. It was proposed by X at the 2011 TED
conference as a challenge to software
developers . X famously lost his voice
after surgery to treat cancer. The test is similar
to the Turing test proposed by Alan Turing in
the 1950s. X employed employed a Scottish
company called CereProc to develop this
voice, and it was used by X for the first time
on March 2nd, 2010. Id X.
23. 8. X’s first movie was Crocodile, released in
1996, which got sensational reviews in his
home country. In 2004, X won two best
director awards at two different major film
festivals, for two major films. X’s work has
been in the news recently. A major 2000 film
by him was banned in the United Kingdom for
issues of animal cruelty. Many of X’s assistants
have later on made movies from scripts by X.
Id X, who studied in Paris from 1990 to 1993.
26. 9. X, made in 1983, was a remake of an 1958
movie of the same name. Set in a small village
in the 19th century, X details the practice of
Ubasute, the custom of a person going to a
remote place and dying of starvation, upon
turning 70. Keisuke Kineshota had directed the
first movie. The director of X, went on to win a
shared Palme D’Or in the next decade as
well, as X won the Palme D’Or outright. Id X.
29. 10. X is the final installment in a multi-platform
art project called Primitive, dealing with the
Isan region. The director had said that a man
named Y had approached a Buddhist monk
with the story of his remembrances, and the
latter was so impressed that he came out with
a book about this in 1983. In an interview, the
director had stated, “When you make a film
about recollection and death, you realise that
cinema is also facing death. X is one of the last
pictures shot on film - now everybody shoots
digital. It's my own little lamentation.” Id X.
32. 11. Which phrase in relation to cinema appeared
during the epics made from the 1930s to the
1960s, when such movies used numerous
extras for crowd and battle scenes?
35. 12. X is spoken twice during the movie, once in
the middle, and then the movie’s last line. X
proved to be very popular. John Lennon
offered a contrary version to X. Lisa Simpson,
while watching the movie in a season 15
episode, says in reply to the line, “No, it
doesn’t!” X has been parodied and disparaged
due to what it professes multiple times. X was
voted #13 on AFI’s “100 Years, 100 Quotes”
list. Id X.
