Round 8: Tossup 20

Upon meeting David Cronenberg at TIFF, this director kissed his feet and confessed to rejecting previous invitations since he was terrified that Toronto would be like its depiction in Videodrome. This director depicted a couple’s marriage in a single shot by showing them walking off-camera into a greenhouse, after which a boy runs out and embraces them. In a film by this director, a doctor reveals that a “very important matter” he’s been thinking about is just his struggle to solve a riddle about a duckling. This director, John (*) Lurie, and Tom Waits play the three protagonists of Down by Law. This director thanked his parents for giving him the “biggest gift” ever, poverty, upon receiving an Oscar from Sophia Loren. At age fifty, this director played the title character of his panned film Pinocchio. The protagonist of a film by this director calls his wife (10[1])“principessa” even when in a concentration camp. For 10 points, what Italian (10[1])comedian directed and starred in Life is Beautiful? ■END■

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