Donald Clarke's movie quiz

This week's movie quiz

This week's movie quiz

1. Which film tells the inspiring story of Christy Brown?

2. Which current hit is based on an elderly Johnny Depp TV series?

3. What links Cloverfield, The Blair Witch Project, Cannibal Holocaust and Project X?

4. Which director was born John Martin Feeney and occasionally called himself Sean O'Fearna?

5. What links The Birds, Don't Look Now and Rebecca?

6. Which 1980s war film ends with a rendition of the Mickey Mouse Song?

7. Which current film is set in a country called Panem?

8. US hoodlum. A collection of untruths. A 12th-century avenger. Fire bringer. (In that order). What's the link?

9. What text links Cecil B De Mille and Krzysztof Kieslowski?

10. Who is Richard E Grant pretending to be in The Iron Lady?


And here with the answers . . . .



1. My Left Foot

2. 21 Jump Street

3. They are all "found footage" films

4. John Ford

5. All based on stories by Daphne Du Maurier

6. Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket

7. The Hunger Games

8. The most recent films by Ridley Scott (American Gangster, Body of Lies, Robin Hood and the upcoming Prometheus)

9. The Ten Commandments (The Decalogue in Kieslowski's sequence)

10. Michael Heseltine