Round 6: Tossup 19

This director gave the audience water guns at the premiere of a film featuring pastiches of Spaghetti western tropes, like a gang of coffee-addicted cowboys who smuggle espresso machines. This director created a Wikipedia account to add entries on films by Luis Buñuel and Sergio Corbucci, but his intentions later “expanded to include aspects of nuclear war policy.” Mark Cousins succeeded this UC Boulder professor as presenter of Moviedrome. In the 2000s, this director made crowdfunded “microfeatures” drawing on classics, like Searchers 2.0 and Tombstone Rashomon. Roger Deakins shot a 1982 film by this director whose title musicians are played by (*) Courtney Love and Gary Oldman. This Liverpudlian filmmaker was blacklisted for directing a biopic starring Ed Harris as William Walker. This director’s (10[1])fascination with punk culture inspired Sid and Nancy and his film about Otto’s pursuit of an otherworldly car. For 10 points, name this director of Repo Man. ■END■

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