Weekly Movie Quiz

Donald Clarke's weekly movie quiz.

Donald Clarke's weekly movie quiz.

THE QUESTIONS

1.Which white soul band was led by Jimmy Rabbitte?

2.Who's up against the Monsters this week?

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3.Who's that in the photo?

4. Kill Bill. Che. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. What's the connection?

5. Apocalypse Now. Platoon. Repo Man. Who shines everything clean?

6.Lynch's follow up to Blue Velvet. Stephen Fry plays his hero. Peckinpah's most celebrated. Bergman considers old age. Which is the odd one out?

7.What might you hear in Lawrence of Arabia, Dr Zhivago, Witnessand Ghost?"

8.Makes Ben Hurlook like an epic." Which much-loved British comedy?

9.Which film reaches its moment of truth on the steps at the end of M Street in Georgetown?

10. Needles and Pins. Buddy Holly. Taxi Driver. What's the inspiration?

THE ANSWERS

1. The Commitments.

2. Aliens.

3.It's Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

4.They were (or will be) all released in two parts.

5.Mr Sheen (or Mr Estevez). The films star members of the Sheen clan.

6.Wilde. All the rest include the word "wild". The question refers to, in order, Wild at Heart, Wilde, The Wild Bunchand Wild Strawberries.

7.A score by Maurice Jarre (who died last week).

8. Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

9. The Exorcist.

10.The Searchers. Needles and Pinswas sung by The Searchers. Buddy Holly took the title of That'll be the Dayfrom the film. Paul Schrader claims that Taxi Driveris a version of The Searchers.