Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz

1Alec Guinness and Ewan McGregor have both played which inter-galactic hero?

2Whose 29-year wait finally ended on Sunday night?

3Name the actor undergoing yet more motion-capture (pictured).

4"La-di-da, la-di-da, la la." The title character of which 1970s classic?

5"Love means never having to say you're sorry". The gloopy tagline to which smash?

6The soundtrack LP for which film features the tracks The Bioluminescence of the Night, Jake's First Flightand Quaritch?

7What links Dorothy Michaels, Brandon Tina and Albert Nobbs?

8What sort of men are Fonda, Balsam, Klugman and nine others?

9Whose production company is called Scott Free?

10 Which Robert De Niro character is the odd one out: Jimmy Conway, Rupert Pupkin, Ace Rothstein, Noodles Aaronson?

Answers

1. Obi-Wan Kenobi

2. Meryl Streep (won her third Oscar after that wait)

3. Andy Serkis

4. Annie Hall

5. Love Story

6. Avatar

7. They are all cross-dressing characters (Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie, Hilary Swank in Boys Don't Cry, Glenn Close in Albert Nobbs)

8. Angry (in 12 Angry Men)

9. Tony and Ridley Scott

10. Noodles Aaronson. All the rest were played by De Niro in Martin Scorsese films (GoodFellas, The King of Comedy, Casino). Noodles appears in Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in America.