Release Date: June 27, 1960 @ the Paris Theater in Manhattan

Distrib: Warwick Films

Awards: BAFTA : Best British Actor (winner) Nom for Best Film, Best British Film, Best British Actor (2) and Best Screenplay

United Artists Classics was formed in the late 70s to rescue United Artists films that had failed at the boxoffice the first time around. TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE was rereleased in 1981 and had a nice arthouse run.

UA Classics in the 80s also released eclectic foreign and arthouse films to varying results.

Trivia: Name these UA Classics films that were retitled for rerelease. Name the original film title.

A) GOING APE

B) CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER

C) CUUTER'S WAY

D) SECOND CHANCE

TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE premiered at Manhattan's premiere arthouse theater (still around today)-The Paris.


An Oscar nomimated film in the 70s played the Paris theater for 10 months-unprecedented today. It received 3 Oscar nominations including one for Best Foreign film. Name this fi9lm?

That film was replaced by a film that beat it at the Oscars by a director who would later make a landmark film that incorporated a totally fabricated language. Name the film, the director and the landmark film from the 80s?

The film that ran for 10 months next went into another famed Manhattan arthouse theater that had a film run there for an unprecedented 19 months. It also garnered 3 Oscar nominations and spawned a sequel that would occupy that same theater 2 months after the followup film bombed there. Name this film?

These two films share something in common other than 3 Oscar nominations apiece and the same theater. What is it that they share?