DONALD CLARKE'sWeekly Movie Quiz
1 Which animator and studio mogul still holds the record for the most number of Oscar wins?
2 Max Irons, co-star of this week’s Red Riding Hood, has two famous parents. They are?
3 Which oversexed comic is currently voicing the Easter Bunny?
4 Who is the Liverpudlian comic in unfamiliar combat mode (below)?
5 “I drink your milkshake! I drink it up.” Which contemporary classic?
6 Who links an Andrei Tarkovsky sci-fi mind- spinner, a starry 1960 heist thriller and a Channel 4 series about the drug trade?
7 Who connects Source Code, The Falcon and the Snowmanand Just a Gigolo?
8 Which film featured the credits “Møøse trained by Yutte Hermsgervørden brøtbørda” and “Special Møøse Effects Olaf Prot”?
9 The location of Rebecca. The fools. Jesus’s evil counterpart. Town for canines. Who are we thinking about?
10 What have directors Lewis Milestone, Billy Wilder and Howard Hawks done?
Answers
1. Walt Disney
2. Jeremy Irons and Sinead Cusack
3. Russell Brand (in Hop)
4. John Bishop in Route Irish
5. There Will Be Blood
6. Steven Soderbergh, who remade all of them ( Solaris, Oceans 11, Traffik)
7. David Bowie. (Son Duncan Jones directed Source Code. Bowie contributed the song This Is Not Americato The Falcon and the Snowmanand acted in Just a Gigolo.)
8. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
9. Lars von Trier ( Manderlay, The Idiots, Antichrist, Dogville)
10. Directed versions of The Front Page (Hawks’s was, of course, His Girl Friday). Ted Kotcheff also directed a version, called Switching Channels.
