Round 6: Tossup 21

In a film by this director, a skull and a statue of Christ in a cave morph into temptresses of Saint Anthony. At the end of a film by this non-Italian director, paradegoers join hands for a circle dance around a statue inscribed “labor omnia vincit.” (15[1])This director made a series of eleven films “reconstructing” a political scandal, in between two films in which disembodied heads are destroyed. Much of this director’s surrealism drew from the féerie (“fay-REE”) genre. This director retaliated against American film pirates like Siegmund Lubin and Carl Laemmle (“LEM-lee”) by using the logo of his production company, (*) Star Film, as a watermark. The music video for “Tonight, Tonight” by Smashing Pumpkins recreates a scene by this director in which umbrellas vaporize a group of “Selenites.” Brian Selznick illustrated this director’s toy automata in a novel that reproduces a shot of a spaceship piercing a celestial body’s eye. For (10[1])10 points, Scorsese’s Hugo is inspired by what director of A Trip to the Moon? ■END■

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