Round 2: Tossup 12

In a surreal sequence by this director, a man dances with a tubelight before slicking back his hair and re-enacting a crime boss’s dialogue from an earlier scene, all while lip-syncing to the scene’s soundtrack. A film by this director introduces a blind woman with a shot framing her smiling in a three-way bathroom mirror. The song “Memo From Turner” was written for a Borgesian psychedelic gangster film by this director; that film’s poster displays the tagline, “Vice. And Versa.” above two pictures each of James Fox and (*) Mick Jagger. This filmmaker, who shot and co-directed Performance, opened another film with a sequence that cuts from a photo of a church to a shot of a creek reflecting a girl wearing a red raincoat. That 1973 film by this director enraged Warren (10[1])Beatty by intercutting shots of a couple wearing clothes and their intercourse. For 10 points, name this director who adapted a Venetian horror story by Daphne du Maurier into the thriller Don’t Look Now. ■END■

ANSWER: Nicolas Roeg (“rogue”) [or Nicolas Jack Roeg] (The first line refers to the “Memo from Turner” sequence from Performance.)
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzzpointValue
Matt Weinerleft sideright side13110

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Power %Neg %Avg. Buzz
2025 Spec Script - Canada2025-06-21250%0%50%96.00
2025 Spec Script - Online 12025-06-211080%10%10%98.63
2025 Spec Script - Online 22025-06-213100%0%0%125.67
2025 Spec Script - VCU2025-06-211100%0%0%131.00