Packet 9: Tossup 1

The antagonist of a film by this director says, “saucy, eh?” about panties he pulled out of his pocket, after emphatically saying “you take it away to show them what they had.” That film by this director cuts from a close-up on the bloodied protagonist spitting out a glove to a shot of him with a black eye at a typewriter. (15[1])This red-green colorblind director made a documentary to promote the tour of a 35mm restoration (-5[1])of three films by the Quay Brothers. A man shuffles around trying to smash a creature on a room’s (15[1])floor in this director’s short film (15[1])(*) Doodlebug. (10[1])This director’s (10[1])second film, which he called a “strange cousin” (10[1])of a Borges story, adapts a short (10[1])story published in Esquire by his brother. (10[1])This director’s wife Emma Thomas contributed to the (10[1])6,000 dollar (10[1])budget of his debut feature, in which a Londoner (-5[1])develops a taste for burglary after meeting one of the strangers he (10[1])“shadows.” For 10 points, what director’s (10[1])film Following presages the non-linear (10[1])style of his film Memento? ■END■ (10[2])

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