Questions... and Answers
Questions:
1. Which film details the tuneful adventures of the Von Trapp family?
2. Which of this week’s releases features copious numbers from the mighty AC/DC?
3. Which great actor and director turns 80 tomorrow?
4. What film is referenced on the covers of Low and Station to Station?
5. “I never knew the old Vienna before the war, with its Strauss music, its glamour and easy charm. Constantinople suited me better.” The first line of which classic?
6. Which studio boss was born Schmuel Gelbfisz in Warsaw in 1879?
7. Gena Rowlands flees with a young boy. Eisenstein's Ten Days That Shook the world. 1971 bisexual drama with Peter Finch. Cronenberg's insect. Which band?
8. Edith Head, Cecil Beaton and Sandy Powell all excel in which field?
9. Robert Donat, Kenneth More and Robert Powell have done what?
10. Joe Wright. Roger Michell. Paul Schrader. John Schlesinger. What’s the connection?
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1. The Sound of Music.
2. Iron Man 2. (Well, it was hardly the Peter Greenaway film.)
3. Clint Eastwood.
4. The Man who Fell to Earth.(They are David Bowie LPs)
5. The Third Man.
6. Samuel Goldwyn
7. U2 ( Gloria; October; Sunday, Bloody, Sunday; The Fly)
8. Costume design.
9. Played the hero (Richard Hannay) in The 39 Steps
10. Directed adaptations of Ian McEwen novels ( Atonement, Enduring Love, The Comfort of Strangers, The Innocent.)
