Round 11: Tossup 19

In a long take by this director, an actor retells W. Somerset Maugham’s version of a Mesopotamian folk tale. A film by this director pans across a classroom as a teacher reads Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale.” At the end of that film by this director, a woman quivers while pouring coffee before shouting, “what am I doing apologizin’ to you?” The productions of (15[1])this director’s early films, like one that won Ben Johnson an Oscar for playing Sam “the Lion,” were designed by his first wife, Polly Platt. The parallel narratives of a film by this director converge at a (*) drive-in theater (-5[1])showdown between a sniper and a horror star played by Boris Karloff. This director’s Esquire essay “The Kane Mutiny” rebuts Pauline Kael’s allegations against the subject of his book This is Orson Welles. This director of Targets adopted his trademark neckerchief (10[1])while shooting an adaptation of a Larry McMurtry novel about a small Texas town. For 10 points, name this director of The Last Picture Show. ■END■ (10[1])

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