Packet 3: Tossup 14

The English subtitles of a film titled for this common noun jump between being nonexistent, combined into single words like “nocrimes” and “wariswar,” and written as if a speaker of Navajo were the translator. (15[1])In a film titled for this noun, the eyes of a goldfish, parrot, (15[1])chihuahua, and cat frighten an eyepatched man played by Buster Keaton; that film titled (-5[1])for this noun was written by Samuel Beckett. (15[1])Three “movements” (-5[1])comprise a Jean-Luc (15[1]-5[1])Godard film whose title follows this noun with “Socialisme.” (15[3])This noun (15[2])and (*) “love” (10[1])are the two title nouns of a (-5[1])Krzysztof Kieślowski (“SHEESH-toff kyesh-LOFF-skee”) film about a post office worker who spies on an older woman. A flash drive hidden in a cake smuggled a 2011 Jafar Panahi film (10[1])whose title asserts it “is not” (10[1])this noun. (10[1])For 10 points, what noun is smashed together with the word “movie” in the title of the “subsequent” (10[1])sequel to Borat? ■END■ (10[3])

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