Round 1: Tossup 20

A shot by this director tracks a group of policemen frantically trying to break a series of speakers blasting the song “Hasta Siempre.” The end credits of a film by this director are prefaced by a list including Mark Twain, the Beatles, mini-skirts, and men with long hair. This director fictionalized the lives of Artur London and Dan Mitrione in the films The Confession and State of Siege. A monologue analogizing (15[1])“isms” to mold infections is delivered in an opening scene by this director preceded by a ballsy disclaimer asserting that its resemblance to real events is (*) “DELIBERATE.” A newsreader announces the fates of the protagonists in the pessimistic ending to that film by this director, which inspired the documentary-style camerawork of The French Connection. This director of Missing used a slogan meaning “he lives” to title a 1969 film that lambasted his home country’s military junta. For 10 points, the political thriller Z (10[1])is the magnum opus of what director from Greece? ■END■

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