Packet 10: Tossup 9

This director included a much-maligned 90-second shot of a carpet in a film whose climactic overhead tracking shot, which depicts crowds at a school, a church, and a cinema, (15[1])is set to Debbie Reynolds’s “Tammy.” Soundbites from classic Hollywood films punctuate that 1992 film by this director, which is titled for a part song by Arthur Sullivan and is based on this director’s own Catholic boyhood. (15[1])This director’s breakthrough film, whose two parts (15[1])were shot two years apart in the 1980s with the same cast and (15[1])crew, is about a family whose patriarch is played by Pete (*) Postlethwaite. Before his 2023 death, this queer filmmaker directed two biopics of literary figures: A Quiet Passion, about Emily Dickinson, (10[2])and Benediction, about Siegfried Sassoon. For 10 points, name this Liverpudlian director of The Long Day Closes and Distant Voices, (10[1])Still Lives. ■END■ (10[1])

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