Tossup
A director with this first name was inspired by the friendship of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett to make a film about a garbageman who writes a pornographic “great American poem.” A director with this first name referenced his editing job on Norman Jewison’s The Thomas Crown Affair in a scene in which a married woman fails to seduce a man by re-enacting that movie’s “chess kiss” scene. A director with this first name used deadpan dialogue in 90s indie films like Amateur, Trust, and Henry Fool. In a film by a director with this first name, a man leaves his apartment for the first time in (*) decades as the soundtrack plays a funk remix of “Thus Spake Zarathustra.” A lifelong gardener carries a remote around Washington, D.C. in a satire by a director with this first name, who had Cat Stevens score a rom-com whose title lovers have a 60-year age gap. For 10 points, the director of Being There and Harold and Maude had what first name and the surname Ashby? ■END■
ANSWER: Hal [or Hal Hartley; or Hal Ashby; accept William Hal Ashby; prompt on William by asking “what was the first name of his stage name?”]
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