Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz

1Which young Belgian reporter is about to be brought to life by Steven Spielberg?

2Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?is the inspiration for which 1982 film?

3What links Julie Delpy, Juliette Binoche and Irene Jacob?

4Pat McCabe adaptation. The source of Moon River. Five kids in detention. What are we eating?

5Who is Mick Jagger pretending to be (picture)?

6What happens at a tollgate, in a rowboat and, years later, on a chair in the garden?

7What 1970s comedy was, at various points, supposedly going to be called Anhedonia, It Had to Be Jew, Rollercoaster Named Desireand Me and My Goy?

8Who is the odd one out: EM Forster, Henry James, Tama Janowitz, Jane Austen, Kasuo Ishiguru?

9The protagonists of which 1983 film share their first names with those of the heroes of Thunderbirds?

10Who links Rudolph Hess, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Nelson and Douglas MacArthur?

Answers:


1. Tintin

2. Blade Runner

3. Played the protagonists of Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colours trilogy

4. Breakfast ( Breakfast on Pluto, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Breakfast Club)

5. Australian outlaw Ned Kelly in Tony Richardson's 1970 film

6. The deaths of the three (natural) brothers in The Godfathertrilogy

7 . Annie Hall

8. Jane Austen. All the rest have had at least one novel adapted by Ismail Merchant and James Ivory. (Although Merchant-Ivory did make Jane Austen in Manhattan.)

9. The Right Stuff( Thunderbirdsborrowed the names of the early astronauts)

10. Laurence Olivier ( Wild Geese 2, Lady Caroline Lamb, That Hamilton Woman, Inchon)