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Here are the answers to the two movies from Monday, 10th March, 2008:

Answer to movie number one:

The first movie for Monday was from 1998 and, set in the mid-1980s, tells of oppressive architecture and totalitarian gloom. A reporter is assigned to an anniversary investigation into the disappearance of a European singing artist who engineered the fake murder of his stage persona, only to see his career take a real nosedive. The reporter hunts down the man’s ex-wife, now a second-rate cabaret performer, and his wheelchair-bound former manager, trying unsuccessfully to contact an American artist whose career was briefly, but spectacularly, intertwined with the European artist’s.

This movie was "Velvet Goldmine", written and directed by Todd Haynes and starring Ewan McGregor, Christian Bale and Toni Collette. Sandy Powell received the only Academy Award ® nomination - for Best Costume Design.

Answer to movie number two:

The second movie for Monday was from 1944 and tells of a secret investigator for an insurance company trying to locate a payroll stolen a few years earlier. He obtains a job singing on a showboat vessel from a woman whose father was convicted and imprisoned for the robbery. When the father breaks jail to clear himself of the framed charge, the investigator helps to get the evidence that traps the real culprit.

This movie was "The Yellow Rose of Texas", directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers, Dale Evans and Grant Withers. The script was written by Jack Townley.

The first movie for today is from 1959 and tells of the fortunes of a Grand Duchy somewhere in Europe - a mythical land on the verge of bankruptcy because it’s one and only export has been copied and undercut by an American company. The Prime Minister and the female monarch of the land get together and cook up a scheme to solve the problem - they will declare war on America, lose immediately, then get back in the black with all the aid that America usually bestows on it’s beaten foes. They send out a laughingly called "army" - clad in armour and carrying ancient weapons. The arrival of these ragtag warriors on the east coast of America has everyone wondering just what on earth is going on and doesn’t help their cause very much, either.

The second movie for today is from 2000 and tells of a man who is terrified that he is a mere one-hit-wonder - his first novel was a huge success but the manuscript of his follow-up book - a long time in the making and still counting - has ballooned to a massive diatribe, with no ending in sight. While working on his magnum opus, he has gotten married, secured a post teaching writing at a small college and embarked on an affair with a colleague - whose husband, inconveniently enough, also chairs one of the departments at the college. His troubles multiply during the school’s big weekend spectacular. His wife leaves, his agent arrives to nag him about the accursed book, the woman he’s having an affair with announces she is pregnant and one of the students turns up at a faculty-student shindig swearing that the weapon in his pocket is really a toy - until the moment he uses it and proves otherwise. The answers will be in Monday's edition. Good luck.

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