DONALD CLARKE's weekly movie quiz
1Which 1972 gangster epic begins with a wedding and ends with a closing door?
2What's in the box that is delivered to Detective David Mills in the desert?
3"This was the story of Howard Beale, the first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings." The last line of which classic?
4Why might a Sam Raimi smash, a David Cronenberg flick starring Ralph Fiennes and an Oscar-winning turn by William Hurt make you think of excised bits of The Exorcist?
5What links Alfred Hitchcock's Sabotage(1936), Ridley Scott's The Duellists(1977) and Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now?(1979)
6In what sense is Daniel Day Lewis about to follow in the footsteps of Raymond Massey, Walter Huston, Henry Fonda and Gregory Peck?
7Which winner of the best picture Oscar is named for a variety of rose?
8Bates has trouble with her daughter. What (apart from the subject) links the films described?
9Will Graham, Hawkeye, Vincent Hanna, Jeffrey Weigand (in that order). What are we talking about?
10Which classic film takes its title from Revelations 8:1-5?
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Answers:
1.
The Godfather
2. Gwyneth Paltrow’s head (In
Se7en
)
3.
Network
4.
Spider-Man
,
Spider
and
Kiss of the Spiderwoman
should remind you of the notorious spider-walk sequence cut from
The Exorcist
5. They are all based on (or inspired by) works by Joseph Conrad
6. He is playing Abraham Lincoln
7.
American Beauty
8. The titles are all the full names of the lead character: Mildred Pierce, Stella Dallas, Dolores Claiborne
9. Successive heroes of Michael Mann films (
Manhunter
,
The Last of the Mohicans,
Heat
,
The Insider
)
10.
The Seventh Seal
(“When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour”)
