Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz

1 Cyril, Sinead, Niamh and Sorcha. Which acting dynasty?

1 Cyril, Sinead, Niamh and Sorcha. Which acting dynasty?

2 Whose first major film was Love Me Tender (1956), in which he played “Clint Reno”?

3 The last act of which 1970s smash takes place almost entirely on the Orca?

4 Greta Garbo, Vivien Leigh, Sophie Morceau and, now, Keira Knightley. Which doomed heroine?

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5 Identify the hermit (left).

6 Which film begins (or almost begins) with the “The Dawn of Man”?

7 Whom did Werner Herzog famously describe as “My Best Fiend”?

8 What list has been topped by only Bicycle Thieves, Citizen Kane and, most recently, Vertigo?

9 Marcello Mastroianni is Guido Anselmi. John Doe addresses the deadly sins via murder. Catherine Hardwicke directs a tale of teenage rebellion. Daniel Day Lewis is Guido Contini. Which is the greatest?

10 Sean Penn as a secluded rock star in Dublin. Todd Solondz’s sequel to Happiness. Cate Blanchett as a bomber in a story by Krzysztof Kieslowski. Epic western by William Wyler. What’s the connection?

And the answers . . .

1. The Cusacks

2. Elvis Presley

3. Jaws

4. Anna Karenina

5. Gene Hackman in Young Frankenstein (1974)

6. 2001: A Space Odyssey

7. Klaus Kinski

8. The Sight & Sound poll of best ever movie

9. Thirteen (question refers to 8 ½, Se7en, Thirteen and Nine)

10. Songs by Talking Heads (This Must Be the Place, Life During Wartime, Heaven, The Big Country)