Packet 7: Tossup 11

The short film You’ve Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know… honors this organization’s 50th anniversary. (15[1])A pan to a sign reading “closed” hanging on the locked gates outside this organization opens the film Stolen Kisses. Wim Wenders (-5[1])dedicated Paris, Texas to a mentor (-5[1])who co-founded this organization, Holocaust survivor Lotte Eisner. This organization has a logo inspired by the (15[1])Hollywood sign. An American exchange student meets two incestuous siblings at a protest involving (-5[1])this organization (15[1])in Gilbert Adair’s novel (15[1])The Holy Innocents, which Bernardo Bertolucci adapted as The Dreamers. (-5[1])Since (-5[1])2007, Costa-Gavras has been the (*) president of this organization co-founded by the director of Eyes (-5[1])Without a Face. In 1968, directors across the world protested Minister of Culture André Malraux’s (“mal-ROH’s”) attempted sacking of this organization’s director Henri Langlois (“on-REE lawn-GWAH”). For 10 points, name this French organization dedicated to film preservation. ■END■ (10[1]0[7])

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