Donald Clarke's weekly movie quiz
1Who's the lovable character back in a dinner jacket for the upcoming When in Rome(pictured)?
2Which entertainment legend and gay icon gets to warble Beyoncé's Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)at the start of Sex and the City 2?
3"I am Frank Booth!" Which late actor famously pressed David Lynch for a role in Blue Velvetwith this declaration?
4Why might Horizon, Highwayand Boysremind you of a recently defunct TV series?
5Neeson, Cooper, Biel, Copley, Jackson. Which team?
6Whose last dramatic appearance on screen to date was as Prince Hopi in 2004's Around the World in 80 Days?
7 The Virgin Spring, Through a Glass Darklyand Fanny and Alexanderare the only Bergman films to achieve what feat?
8What have Wallace Beery, Robert Newton, Charlton Heston, Orson Welles and Tim Curry all done?
9Loach, Mungiu, Cantet, Haneke. Who's next?
10 From where did 3epkano, the Irish avant- garde musical collective, derive their peculiar name?
Answers
1.It's Danny DeVito
2.Liza Minnelli
3.Dennis Hopper
4.The word "Lost" turns them all into popular movies
5.The A-Team. Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Quinton Jackson, Sharlto Copley, Jessica Biel appear in the upcoming film version.
6.Arnold Schwarzenegger. (However, he will make a brief appearance in this summer's The Expendables.)
7.Win the Oscar for best foreign language picture
8.Played Long John Silver is different versions of Treasure Island
9.Weerasethakul. The question refers to recent winners of the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Apichatpong Weerasethakul triumphed last month for Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.
10.It's an approximation of the original Cyrillic title of Andrei Tarkovsky's
Mirror.
