[3] September 16, 2011
Sometimes it seems that everything playing at the megaplex was inspired by a comic book superhero. For today’s quiz you need to match the comic book superhero with the various actors who have played him/her on screen...
[3] Sometimes it seems that everything playing at the megaplex was inspired by a comic book superhero. For today’s quiz you need to match the comic book superhero with the various actors who have played him/her on screen...
[5] Australian director Peter Weir [6] is recognized for many things. Comedy is not among them. 1990's Green Card [7], in fact, is Weir's only true comedy in a career that spans more than 40 years. But it's a highly satisfying one.
[9] Good looking, versatile and almost impossible to pigeon hole, Cliff Robertson [10] was the kind of actor who left himself behind when he slipped into a role.
[12] Avalon [13] is a movie about becoming an American.
It’s also about losing, little by little, the connections to their previous lives that informed the original generation of immigrants.
[15] The American Heritage Dictionary defines a synecdoche as a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part...
Keep that in mind while watching Charlie Kaufman’s [16] Synecdoche, New York [17] (2008).
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/Film+Blog/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/movie-quiz-comic-book-heroes
[4] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/14489#comment-form
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-green-card-1990
[6] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001837/
[7] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=format:%22dvd%22+title:%22green+card%22
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/14471#comment-form
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/tribute-cliff-robertson
[10] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0731772/
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/14354#comment-form
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-avalon-1990
[13] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=format:%22video%22+title:%22avalon%22
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/14352#comment-form
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/wall-preview-synecdoche-new-york
[16] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0442109/
[17] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=format:%22dvd%22+title:%22Synecdoche?+New+York%22
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/14344#comment-form
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=56
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=53
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=54
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=55
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=58
[25] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=59
[26] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=60
[27] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=61