Round 3: Tossup 14

The English subtitles of a film titled for this common noun jump between being nonexistent, combined into single words like “nocrimes” and “wariswar,” and written as if a speaker of Navajo were the translator. In a film titled for this noun, the eyes of a goldfish, parrot, chihuahua, and cat frighten an eyepatched man played by Buster Keaton; that film titled for this noun was written by Samuel Beckett. Three “movements” comprise a Jean-Luc (-5[1])Godard film whose title follows this noun with “Socialisme.” (15[1])This noun and (*) “love” are the two title nouns of a Krzysztof Kieślowski (“SHEESH-toff kyesh-LOFF-skee”) film about a post office worker who spies on an older woman. A flash drive hidden in a cake smuggled a 2011 Jafar Panahi film whose title asserts it “is not” this noun. For 10 points, what noun is smashed together with the word “movie” in the title of the “subsequent” sequel to Borat? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: film [or Film Socialisme; or A Short Film About Love; or Krótki film o miłości; or This is Not a Film; or In film nist; or Borat Subsequent Moviefilm; reject “movie”; reject “cinema”] (The film in the lead-in is Film Socialisme. The Beckett–Keaton film is simply titled Film.)
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Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Superpower %Power %Neg %Avg. Buzz
2025 Absolute Cinema - Canada2025-11-082100%0%50%50%116.00
2025 Absolute Cinema - Chicago Open2025-11-085100%0%40%40%117.60
2025 Absolute Cinema - Minnesota2025-11-082100%0%50%0%96.50
2025 Absolute Cinema - Online (1)2025-11-083100%0%33%33%106.00
2025 Absolute Cinema - Online (2)2025-11-165100%0%80%0%71.80