Packet 2: Tossup 1

This author’s 1926 essay “The Cinema” contains a passage admiring a tadpole-shaped projection artifact on a screen showing The Cabinet (15[1])of Dr. Caligari. At the end of an adaptation of a novel by this author, the title character’s daughter uses a camcorder to film a singing cherub wearing a foil dress; (15[1])that film features title cards like “Death,” “Politics,” “Sex,” and “Birth.” Eileen Atkins’s expertise on this author informed her (-5[1])script for a 2018 Chanya Button film about this author’s love life. The cancelled 2020 Met (-5[1])Gala was themed around a film adaptation of a novel by (-5[1])this author in which a (*) gown magically (-5[1])changes into 1950s attire while the title character runs through a maze. For that adaptation of a novel by this author, Sally Potter cast Tilda Swinton as the title character (10[3])for her ability to express (10[1])male (10[1])body language. (10[1]-5[1])Reviewers disparaged the prosthetic nose Nicole Kidman wore to portray this author in (10[1])The Hours. (10[1])For 10 points, name this author of Orlando. ■END■ (10[2])

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