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The upbeat score of a scene in this film is briefly interrupted by a man saying “There I was. Staring square in the face of death.” In this film, the camera tracks two newspapers fluttering in the wind after a couple have sex out of joy for a poem one of them wrote. A still from this film appears on the print cover of Mark Harris’s book Pictures at a Revolution. (15[1])The telegram “I’m talking cinema, you’re talking weather. Au revoir” signalled the end of Jean-Luc Godard’s interest in directing this film. (15[1])Twice in this film, a man tells a joke about (15[1])a man who replaced his mother’s (*) milk with brandy. In honor of 50 years of this film, its two leads announced the 2017 Best Picture winner. A car chase in this film popularized Earl Scruggs’s bluegrass track “Foggy Mountain Breakdown.” The New York Times fired Bosley Crowther due to his hate for this 1967 Arthur Penn film. For 10 points, name this New Hollywood film starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as two bank robbers. ■END■

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