DONALD CLARKE's Weekly Movie Quiz
1 Which angry creature first appeared in Porky's Duck Huntand went on to star in Duck Amuckand Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century?
2 "Calm down. Calm down." Which colourful British director has, in recent years, become well known for flogging car insurance?
3 Which team of paranormal investigators operated out of an firehouse in New York's Tribeca?
4 Which series of films focuses on the adventures of Thomas A Anderson?
5 What begins and ends with The End?
6 Which current film is advertised with the tagline "The hilarious true story of two nobodies who took on the biggest somebody on earth"?
7 If Russell Brand is Dudley Moore and Greta Gerwig is (somewhat implausibly) Liza Minnelli, then who is John Gielgud?
8 What, according to the trade paper Variety, is an "oater"?
9 The soundtrack to which recent film includes the tracks LaBoeuf Takes Leave, The Snake Pitand I Will Carry You?
10 Why might a 1980 Robert Altman flop and a 1991 Alan Parker smash make you think of The French Connection?
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1. Daffy Duck
2. Michael Winner
3.
Ghostbusters
4.
The Matrix
5.
Apocalypse Now
6.
Killing Bono
7. Helen Mirren (We’re talking about the upcoming remake of
Arthur
)
8. A western
9.
True Grit
10. The Altman film is
Popeye
. The Parker film is
The Commitments
, which was written by Roddy Doyle. Popeye Doyle (Gene Hackman) is the protagonist of
The French Connection.
