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In this state, a filmmaker gave a speech with the line “We ought to be grateful that the Universe out there knows no smile” as part of twelve “Lessons of Darkness” before a dialogue with Roger Ebert. This state names a “Declaration” positing that “cinema verite is devoid of verite,” given by Werner Herzog at an art museum in this state. (15[1])A film set in this state ends with a smash cut to the credits from an over the shoulder shot of a boy listening to Jefferson Airplane’s (*) “Somebody to Love” while he watches a tornado (10[1])slowly approach. In that film set in this state, a young rabbi tells a story about a dentist encountering (10[1])Hebrew inscribed on the teeth of one of his patients to a character played by Michael Stuhlbarg. For 10 points, name this state where professor Larry Gopnik’s life seems to fall apart in A Serious Man, the home state of directors Joel and Ethan Coen. ■END■ (10[1])

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