Round 1: Tossup 7

In a scene by a director with this surname, a woman out of focus in the background breaks a glass cup to interrupt her husband desperately trying to absolve himself of a hit-and-run. A director with this surname created a harrowing, nearly silent scene in which two men wearing hairnets use a taser, puffer, and syringe to assassinate a lawyer. Five of the six films separately directed by two brothers with this surname were scored by James Newton Howard and shot by DOP Robert Elswit. A director with this surname paid homage to The Long Good Friday by ending a film with a two-minute-long close-up on the (*) title character riding in a taxi after he tells a meek businesswoman, “I’m Shiva, the god of death.” Weegee’s photography inspired a film by a director with this surname in which a morning news director is courted by the coyote-like stringer Lou Bloom. For 10 points, give this shared surname of the brothers who wrote and directed Michael Clayton and Nightcrawler. (-5[1])■END■

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