Round 10: Tossup 8

Maurice Ravel and Erik Satie inspired this composer’s song “Bolerish,” which opens his score for Brian De Palma’s Femme Fatale. During a recording session, Bernardo Bertolucci made the orchestra wait while forcing this composer to rewrite his score for The Sheltering Sky on the spot. A 2017 documentary subtitled Coda (15[1])chronicles (15[1])this composer’s (15[3])anti-nuclear (15[2])activism. (15[1])Alva Noto and The National’s Bryce Dessner often collaborated with this composer, who used the idea of scoring a nonexistent Tarkovsky film to conceptualize his album async. This composer used the instrumental of his song “Forbidden (*) Colours,” which was named after Yukio Mishima’s novel, as the theme for a war film starring David Bowie. This composer (-5[1])had just a week to write his Oscar-winning score for The Last Emperor. For 10 points, the scores for The Revenant and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence were composed by what late member of the Japanese band Yellow Magic Orchestra? ■END■ (10[2])

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