Round 7: Tossup 11

The short film You’ve Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know… honors this organization’s 50th anniversary. A pan to a sign reading “closed” hanging on the locked gates outside this organization opens the film Stolen Kisses. Wim Wenders dedicated Paris, Texas to a mentor who co-founded this organization, Holocaust survivor Lotte Eisner. This organization has a logo inspired by the Hollywood sign. An American exchange student meets two incestuous siblings at a protest involving this organization in Gilbert Adair’s novel The Holy Innocents, which Bernardo Bertolucci adapted as The Dreamers. (-5[1])Since 2007, Costa-Gavras has been the (*) president of this organization co-founded by the director of Eyes Without a Face. In 1968, directors across the world protested Minister of Culture André Malraux’s (“mal-ROH’s”) attempted sacking of this organization’s director Henri Langlois (“on-REE lawn-GWAH”). For 10 points, name this French organization dedicated to film preservation. ■END■ (0[3])

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