From the blood simple to the die hard

1. Who, according to Bananarama, was "waiting" while "talking Italian"?

2. The poster for which recent animated release carries a phonetic
pronunciation guide to its title?

3. "What are they gonna say about him? What are they gonna say? That he was
a kind man? That he was a wise man? That he had plans?" Who?

4. What began at The Dawn of Manand ended six years ago?

5. Why are sections of the Scottish media annoyed with Simon Pegg?

6. Despite reports to the contrary in last week's media, only one man has
been awarded both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize. Who?

7. Look at me. I'm waving a white handkerchief while shouting "Attica!
Attica!" Who am I?

8. Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot, Coal Miner's Daughter, Once We Were Warriors,
The Mask of Zorro(in that order). What connects the directors?

9. A typical John Ford film. The National Guard get butchered in the
Louisiana swamps. The latest David Cronenberg film. But, controversially,
not the first episode of His Dark Materials. Explain.

10. Robert De Niro's debut as director. Jennifer Jason Leigh plays a
prostitute. More than one Helen Mirren. Isaac Davis falls for a younger
woman. What's missing?

Answers

1. Robert De Niro

2. Ratatouille

3. Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando) in Apocalypse Now

4. 2001: A Space Odyssey

5. Despite being conspicuously English, Pegg has been cast as Scotty in the
upcoming Star Trek movie.

6. George Bernard Shaw. Al Gore collected the Oscar for An Inconvenient
Truth, but it really belonged to Davis Guggenheim, the film's director.

7. Sonny (Al Pacino) in Dog Day Afternoon

8. Films by the directors of the last four James Bond films

9. The question refers to the western, Southern Comfort and Eastern
Promises. The opening section of the film adaptation of Philip Pullman's His
Dark Materialsis named The Golden Compassafter the American title of the
book. In this country that volume was called Northern Lights.

10. Staten Island. The question refers to the five boroughs of New York. The
relevant films are A Bronx Tale, Last Exit to Brooklyn, The Queen(s) and, of
course, Manhattan.