Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz

1 Which 1982 blockbuster featured the hit Up Where We Belong?

2 “If someone says ‘stop’ or goes limp, taps out, the fight is over.” The third rule of what?

3 Name the film-maker in the photo. (There may by a clue lurking somewhere.)

4 Michael Cimino in 1978. Francis Ford Coppola in 1979. Stanley Kubrick in 1987. Brian DePalma in 1989. Where are we?

5 Combine a popular reindeer with an Italian fashion label to create a star of the silent era.

6 Who links Vivien Leigh, Claudette Colbert, Elizabeth Taylor and Amanda Barrie?

7 “My name is Addison DeWitt. My native habitat is the theatre. In it I toil not, neither do I spin. I am a critic and commentator.” Sound words from which film?

8 Which film franchise will, from next year, go “Into Darkness”?

9 Whos letters have recently been collected under the title Furious Love?

10 Which film-maker inspired a song by Scott Walker, a musical by Stephen Sondheim and a horror film by Wes Craven?

ANSWERS

1. An Officer and a Gentleman

2. Fight Club

3. Billy Wilder

4. Vietnam (The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, Casualties of War)

5. Rudoplh Valentino

6. Cleopatra (played in Caesar and Cleopatra, Cleopatra (1934), Cleopatra (1963), Carry on Cleo)

7. All About Eve (1950)

8. Star Trek

9. Richard Burton

10. Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal; A Little Night Music based on Smiles of a Summer Night; Last House on the Left based on The Virgin Spring)