Movie Quiz

DONALD CLARKE'Sweekly movie quiz

Questions:

1. Which French footballer appears magically before the hero of Ken Loach’s upcoming Looking for Eric? (The clue is in the question.)

2. In which current hit might you encounter Napoleon, Ivan the Terrible, Al Capone, Teddy Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart?

3 Who’s that punching the mirror in the picture below?

4 “Love is in the Hair” The tagline for which Farrelly smash?

5 “This is a true story. The events depicted in this film took place in Minnesota in 1987.” The (misleading) opening of which contemporary classic?

6 What will you not see (or seem not to see) in either Rope (1948) or Russian Ark (2002)?

7 Max de Winter. Archie Rice. Heathcliff. Which peer?

8 Trainspotting. Hallam Foe. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. The Battle of the Sexes. What’s the link?

9 Emir Kusturica. Wong Kar-wai. Stephen Frears. AO Scott. Sean Penn. Isabelle Huppert. Which honour?

10 Which is the odd one out: Mission: Impossible, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Terminator: Salvation, The Lost World: Jurassic Park.

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Answers:

1. Eric Cantona
 

2. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian


3. It's Richard Harris in This Sporting Life (1963)


4. There's Something About Mary


5. Fargo


6. A cut. Both films appear to take place in one take.


7. Lawrence Olivier


8. They were all set in Edinburgh


9. The last six presidents of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival


10. Terminator: Salvation (or, rather, Terminator Salvation). It, alone, does not take a colon.