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This author’s 1926 essay “The Cinema” contains a passage admiring a tadpole-shaped projection artifact on a screen showing The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. At the end of an adaptation of a novel by this author, the title character’s daughter uses a camcorder to film a singing cherub wearing a foil dress; that film features title cards like “Death,” “Politics,” “Sex,” and “Birth.” Eileen Atkins’s expertise on this author informed her (-5[1])script for a 2018 Chanya Button film about this author’s love life. The cancelled 2020 Met Gala was themed around a film adaptation of a novel by this author in which a (*) gown magically (-5[1])changes into 1950s attire while the title character runs through a maze. For that adaptation of a novel by this author, Sally Potter cast Tilda Swinton as the title character (10[1])for her ability to express male body language. Reviewers disparaged the prosthetic nose Nicole Kidman wore to portray this author in The Hours. For 10 points, name this author of Orlando. ■END■ (10[2])

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