DONALD CLARKE'SWeekly Movie Quiz
1.
Which of this week’s releases is mostly concerned with the Duke of York’s speech patterns?
2.
What was the first ever full-length (cell) animated feature?
3.
Eating mushrooms (and nothing else). A tall building (and nothing else). A person sleeping (and nothing else). Thrilling films by which director?
4.
Identify the two excited ice hockey fans (photo).
5.
What are ILM and WETA?
6.
Which upcoming kids’ film carries the tagline “Life’s a Pic-a-nic”?
7.
Who is the odd one out: Helen Mirren, Judi Dench, Bette Davis, Cate Blanchett?
8.
What precedes Happy Feet, Ratatouille, Wall-E and Up?
9.
What was released as Stairway to Heaven in the US (apart from Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven, obviously)?
10.
The title of which Japanese film translates as “Bodyguard”?
Answers
1.
The King’s Speech
2.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
3.
Andy Warhol (Eat, Empire, Sleep)
4.
It’s Kevin James and Vince Vaughn in
The Dilemma
5.
Special effects houses
6.
Yogi Bear
7.
Helen Mirren. All the rest played Elizabeth I in feature films. (Mirren did play Elizabeth I on TV and Elizabeth II on film.)
8.
Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit
(winners of the Oscar for best animated feature)
9.
A Matter of Life and Death
(1946)
10.
Yojimbo
