Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz

1 The hero of which new film first appeared in the Shrek series?

1The hero of which new film first appeared in the Shrekseries?

2I am a former marine who now works in New York City. My interests include pornography and cleaning the streets of "scum". Who am I?

3All three parts of only two trilogies have been nominated for best picture Oscars. Name them.

4Who is James Mason pretending to be (pictured)?

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5The soundtrack LP to which Oscar-winner features the tracks Eric's Theme, Abraham's Themeand 100 Metres?

6John Getz, Nicolas Cage, Gabriel Byrne, John Turturro (in that order). What are we talking about?

7Dietrich's first talkie and two Neil Jordan films. What's the connection?

8"It would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic". Lew Grades famous comment on which ruinously expensive epic?

9What ends with James Donald mouthing the words "madness, madness"?

10What was filmed under Wandsworth Bridge, at the Chelsea Drugstore, in Kingston Upon Thames and – most famously – on Thamesmead Estate?

Answers:

1. Puss in Boots

2. Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver

3. The Godfatherand The Lord of the Rings

4. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in The Desert Fox(1951)

5. Chariots of Fire(1981)

6. The male leads in the first four Coen brothers films ( Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink)

7. Angels ( The Blue Angel, Angeland We're No Angels)

8. Raise the Titanic(1980)

9. The Bridge on the River Kwai

10. A Clockwork Orange