Weekly Movie Quiz

1.Which 1972 film spawned the instrumental hit Duelling Banjos?

2.

Who, according to Barbra Streisand in

Funny Girl

, are the “luckiest people in the world”?

3.

Which Kerryman links Carl Gustav Jung, Magneto and Bobby Sands?

4.

Which famous movie building was modelled on Edward Hopper’s

House by the Railroad

(photo)?

5.

Bernardo Bertolucci’s film about political strife. Steven Spielberg’s film about wartime panic. Stanley Kubrick’s film about everything. What’s the link?

6.

Who are the only two actors to win Oscars for playing the same fictional character?

7.

“Shoot his right profile,” The Clash bellowed in

The Right Profile

. Which unlucky actor required such careful camerawork?

8.

What began with

The Deadly Companions

and ended 22 years later with

The Osterman Weekend

? (pictured)

9.

What have Martin Ritt, Sidney Lumet, Fernando Meirelles and Tomas Alfredson all done?

10.

Which is the odd one out:

Funny Games, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Heat, The Vanishing, The Ten Commandments

?

Answers:

1.

Deliverance

2.

People who need people

3.

Michael Fassbender

4.

The Bates Motel in

Psycho

5.

Film’s title are all years: 1900, 1941,

2001: A Space Odyssey

6.

Robert De Niro and Marlon Brando (as Vito Corleone in the first two parts of

The Godfather

)

7.

Montgomery Clift

8.

The directing career of Sam Peckinpah

9.

All directed films based on John le Carré novels (

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Deadly Affair, The Constant Gardener, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

)

10.

Heat

. All the others are projects that were made twice by the same director under the same title. Michael Mann’s Heat was a remake of his own

LA Takedown

(a TV movie).