Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz

1 What is Billy Crystal up to on Sunday night?

1 What is Billy Crystal up to on Sunday night?

2 Whose first features were Who's That Knocking at My Door?and Boxcar Bertha?

3 Which character has been played by Jack Black, Ted Danson and Richard Harris?

4 Which comedy later inspired Blue Murder, Pure Helland a Train Robbery?

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5 René Clement, Anthony Minghella and Wim Wenders have all adapted novels by which writer?

6 Which director and producer's autobiography is entitled (tellingly) How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime?

7 Ripped window adornment. Semi-precious stone. A state of severe agitation. Where the clan is buried. Whose last four films?

8 Name the famous acting guru pictured in The Godfather Part II.

9 Which chaotic film was directed by (among others) Val Guest, John Huston, Ken Hughes and Robert Parrish?

10 What, according to pedants, is wrong with Two Weeks Notice, The 40 Year-Old Virgin, Who Framed Roger Rabbitand Eight Legged Freaks?

ANSWERS

1. Hosting the Oscars

2. Martin Scorsese

3. Gulliver in Gulliver's Travels

4. The Belles of St Trinian's

5. Patricia Highsmith

6. Roger Corman

7. Alfred Hitchcock ( Torn Curtain, Topaz, Frenzy, Family Plot)

8. Lee Strasberg

9. Casino Royale

10. The titles (all rendered as on the poster) features errors in punctuation.