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Simply e-mail the answers to the following questions under the subject heading "Wider Screenings Quiz" along with a mention of your favourite film, and a brief description of why it is your favourite, to: quiz@widerscreenings.com Please include the name and address where the prize should be sent out to in the event of a win. The winning entries will be selected both for providing the correct answers and for the account of a favourite film. OR: correctly tweet all 3 answers as a direct message to Wider Screenings and you could win instantly on Twitter! (Twitter entries given priority)

Prize for the winning entry is a copy of Film Tags: Promoting the Movies in the Age of DVD, the first book compiling movie taglines (also available May 4th as an e-book).

Correct, winning entries only will be notified by email.

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1) Video Question (contained in the embedded YouTube preview): What is the one simple question Victor bases his life on? (on DVD now - read review)

2) What is Kris Kristofferson's CB "handle" in Sam Peckinpah's classic trucker film Convoy?

3) In Sleepless in Seattle, scripter-director Nora Ephron stages a romantic finale with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan atop the Empire State Building in homage to which classic Deborah Kerr romance?

NOTE: The Wider Screenings Quiz is ongoing. Individuals may enter as often as they like, but if they have already won a prize are ineligible to receive the same prize twice: once the questions and prize change, anyone is again free to enter and win with the same provision.

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Congratulations to Our First Twitter Film Buff Quiz Winner!

meerkat23

Favourite Film: Ghostbusters

"Another favourite movie is Ghostbusters which I think can be described as multi-genre. It has just the right mix of comedy, romance, mystery, action, and supernatural themes to keep you guessing how it would all end. In my opinion it probably was the only way they could end it - almost as how it began. As I don't want to spoil the ending for anyone who may be reading this all I can add is that it is a movie I think everyone should see - all the special effects were very clever."

GHOSTBUSTERS TAGLINE featured in FILM TAGS:: "Who You Gonna Call?"
GHOSTBUSTERS MOVIE DIALOGUE featured in FILM TALK: "He slimed me!"

Previous Winners: Melissa Barker (SA); Debbie Thompson (NSW); Rebecca Carney (VIC); Vivienne Benson (NSW); Sally McInnes (QLD); Prue West (VIC); Josanne Stephens (WA);

MUSIC TO BROWSE THE QUIZ PAGE: with DJ Drifter
(courtesy of YouTube embedded video)
"Love, Sensuality, Devotion. LSD. From Timothy Leary to
rave culture, the drug rhythm driven freedom of the mind,
sexual in its imagination, yearning for rescue
with the voice of a true Enigma (and Invisible Love)"

Melissa Barker: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - "I like it because Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter are brilliant actors and do a wonderful job portraying their characters. Although it has put me off eating pies I watch it every week."

Debbie Thompson: (1) The Greatest Show on Earth - "The story of life in a circus, it has the right mix of suspense and romance. Spectacular circus performances, aerials, trapeze, elephants, many other animals too, and a clown, who no-one has seen without his make-up as he is using it to hide from his past. A train crash where people are hurt and the animals escape had me wondering how the film would end. A movie I have found I can watch over again many times."

Vivienne Benson: (1) Natural Born Killers - "Not only is it by Tarantino, but I love the soundtrack from the movie so much I have 2 copies of it. I don't see why any Tarantino fan would not like NBK, even if (Oliver) Stone did have a hand in it. I am trying to gather a collection of all Tarantino DVD movies-wish me luck."

Sally McInnes: The Dark Knight - "It keeps you captivated and is constant non stop action, and the brilliant remake of the Joker,where Heath Ledger plays such a convincingly believable part, leaves a lasting impression in your head long after you have left the cinema. Brilliant film."

Debbie Thompson: (2) Anastasia - "My favourite animated movie is Anastasia about a Russian Princess whose family was murdered but she escaped with the help of a young boy. Years later they meet as he is one of two con-artists trying to locate the granddaughter of a lady, unbeknownst to them she really is the lady's granddaughter and the younger con-artist is the boy who helped her to freedom all those years ago. Also features another scary train ride."

Prue West: Pretty Woman - "One of my favourite movies is Pretty Woman. You tend to forget the fact that Julia Roberts is playing a dirty hooker, and instead fall in love with her character. Its a great romantic film, and what woman doesn't dream of being rescued by a handsome Richard Gere..."

Vivienne Benson: (2) Slingblade - "Another film I quite like is Slingblade. Billy Bob Thornton really deserved to win the Academy with this movie. It is one of those films which lingers in my mind, Uhhuh!"

Josanne Stephens: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - "My favourite film is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, an old one but still thought provoking to watch as well as funny."

Debbie Thompson: (3) Ghostbusters - "Another favourite movie is Ghostbusters which I think can be described as multi-genre. It has just the right mix of comedy, romance, mystery, action, and supernatural themes to keep you guessing how it would all end. In my opinion it probably was the only way they could end it - almost as how it began. As I don't want to spoil the ending for anyone who may be reading this all I can add is that it is a movie I think everyone should see - all the special effects were very clever."