Packet 10: Tossup 1

A director with this surname has cast his wife, a folk dancer, in all of his movies since a 2000 film about a decade in the lives of a theatre troupe. A comedienne with this surname lost 100 pounds in 6 months to play a boxer in her film YOLO, and was once the world’s highest-grossing female director due to her time travel film Hi, Mom. English pop music’s influence on a director with this surname is evident in the Joy Division-inspired title of his third film and his use of the Pet Shop Boys’ “Go (15[1])West” to bookend the film Mountains May Depart. (15[1])The deliberate, realist (15[2])style (15[1])of a director with this surname is typified (-5[1])by films like Platform, Caught By the (15[1])(*) Tides, (10[2])and a four-part (10[1])2013 anthology based on real-life violence. Several films by that director with this surname, including Still Life and a 2018 drama (10[1])about a gangster’s girlfriend, use the backdrop of the Three Gorges Dam. For 10 points, give this family name of the Sixth Generation Chinese director of A Touch of Sin and Ash is Purest White. ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

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