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This essayist juxtaposed the lengthy highway sequence in Solaris with Kris Kelvin’s much shorter journey to the space station to emphasize the humanistic approach of the film in his work Auteur in Space. Another essay by this director posits that Hirokazu Kore-eda may have created “the most existential running scene in the history of cinema” in the film Nobody Knows. This director initially gained popularity as a contractor for the BFI producing video (*) essays for Sight and Sound. (10[1])This director took his popular name from a screenwriter who worked with Yasujirō Ozu on films like Tokyo Story. In a film by this director, the son of an architectural scholar finds himself stranded amongst the many modernist buildings of the title city, while another follows a family whose android has stopped working. For 10 points, name this American director of Columbus and After Yang. ■END■

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