Round 5: Tossup 12

This adjective describes the title “man of cinema” of the magnum opus of film theorist Jean Louis Schefer. Molly Haskell’s book From Reverence to Rape uses two forms of this adjective to describe the three sorts of cinematic women. This adjective titles a film in which a young man barks like a dog after his mother tries to steer a conversation away from a pigeon they treated like a pet. (-5[1])In a film titled for this adjective, a woman who finds her husband in tears in the middle of the night is told by him that she “buried all [her] (*) love.” That film titled for this adjective intersperses shots of a boat in a storm throughout a scene in which a teenager yells at a psychiatrist as if he was his brother. (10[1])Pachelbel’s (10[1])Canon (10[1])was brought to the mainstream by a 1980 film (10[1])titled for this adjective (10[1])that cast Mary Tyler Moore against (10[1])type (10[1])as Conrad Jarrett’s grieving mother Beth. For 10 points, that Robert Redford film (10[1])adapts a Judith Guest novel titled for what sort of “people?” (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

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