QUESTIONS FOR THE WEEK 14/09/2008

A SPECIAL QUIZ ON FILMS

1. He was born as Leslie Andrews in 1916 and his voice was an exquisite blend of torment and anguish, tenderness and joy. He made his debut in playback singing in 1951. He died in 1977 under another name. Who?

2. Merlin Holland is a publisher, a dealer in glass and ceramics, and a writer who has edited and published several works about his very famous grandfather. his grandmother was constance lloyd before she married, and she changed her surname in 1895, to holland. who was the famous grandfather

3. Andre Jurieu broke Charles Lindbergh’s record for flying solo across the Atlantic, but Christine, the woman he loves, is not there to greet him. After Christine’s husband invites Andre to go hunting, Christine discovers her husband is having an affair with her niece Genevieve. Marceau, the poacher, flirts with the gamekeeper’s wife, Lisette, which leads the gamekeeper to chase Marceau with a gun. A major influence on Robert Altman’s Gosford Park, Name this 1939 portrait of the French upper class directed by Jean Renoir.

4. This film ends with an optimistic news broadcast abruptly interrupted by an offscreen narrator’s epilogue about an authoritarian right-wing coup. Inspired by the real-life assassination of Grigoris Lambrakis, it depicts an investigation conducted by a deputy played Yves Montand. The investigation is covered up, but the martyr’s supporters paint graffiti declaring “He Lives,” a reference to the film’s title. Directed by Costa-Gavras, Name this 1969 Best Foreign Film Oscar winner with a one-letter title.

With love and regards jithesh maniyat