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In a film by this director, a man walking on a bar countertop kills the bartender by slashing his neck and face with the spur of his boot. (15[1])In another film by this director, the camera pans up and briefly holds on the face of the main character as Faith performs a rendition of PJ Harvey’s “Hardly Wait”; that film ends with the main character pulling his love interest out of a cop car and kissing her as the new year begins. During a shootout with police in one (15[1])film by this director, sun streaming into a (*) motel room through bullet holes burns the skin of the central group. This director, who cast Jenny Wright and Bill Paxton as vampires roaming the south in a 1987 (10[1])neo-western, (10[1])directed a film in which the Ralph Fiennes-played Lenny Nero illegally sells discs containing people’s memories. For 10 points, name this American director of Near Dark and Strange Days. ■END■ (10[1])

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