Packet 11: Tossup 19

In a long take by this director, an actor retells W. Somerset Maugham’s version of a Mesopotamian folk tale. A film by this director pans across a classroom as a teacher reads Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale.” At the end of that film by this director, a woman quivers while pouring coffee before shouting, “what (15[1])am I doing apologizin’ to you?” The productions of (15[1])this director’s (15[1])early films, like one that won Ben Johnson an Oscar for playing Sam “the Lion,” were designed by (15[1])his first (15[1])wife, Polly (15[2])Platt. The parallel narratives (15[1])of a film by this director converge at a (*) drive-in (10[1])theater (-5[1])showdown between a sniper and a horror star played by Boris Karloff. (10[1])This director’s Esquire essay “The Kane Mutiny” rebuts Pauline Kael’s allegations against the subject of his book This is Orson Welles. This director of Targets (-5[1])adopted his trademark neckerchief (10[1])while shooting an adaptation of a Larry McMurtry novel about a small Texas town. For 10 points, name this director of The Last Picture Show. ■END■ (10[2])

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