DONALD CLARKE'SMovie Quiz
1.
Which of next week's releases ends with a message saying "A film from Heath Ledger and friends"?
2.
Which upcoming release are Colin Firth and Robin Wright Penn promoting? (The clue's in the picture.)
3.
Which recent release boasts (in terms of letters) the shortest title of the year so far?
4.
Next week, Jigsaw somehow manages to return in part six of which series?
5.
"So we'll hunt him because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector." Very nearly the last line of which noughties smash?
6.
What species of baby were Hepburn and Grant bringing up in
Bringing Up Baby
?
7.
Which word has recently connected Hollywood, zombie and adventure?
8.
Cabbie. Former New Amsterdam, former New Amsterdam. Final dance. Angry bovine male. Successive examples of what?
9.
Franklyn Delano Roosevelt. Howard Cosell. Joe Buck. Which eccentric?
10.
In a recent sale of whose possessions did a very special chess set sell for £120,000?
ANSWERS
1.
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
2.
A Christmas Carol
3.
Up.
(Does the upcoming
9
beat it? The upcoming
Nine
certainly does not.)
4.
Saw
5.
The Dark Knight.
The very last word are, of course, "The Dark Knight".
6.
A leopard
7.
Land
8.
Martin Scorsese features. The question refers to
Taxi Driver, New York, New York, The Last Waltz
and
Raging Bull
.
9.
Jon Voight. He played those roles in
Pearl Harbor
,
Ali
and
Midnight Cowboy.
10.
Ingmar Bergman. It was the chess set from
The Seventh Seal.