Round 2: Tossup 5

A homeless man in this city quotes Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy to a film’s protagonist, who himself quotes The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance after finding his wife cheating on him in a bathroom. The protagonist of a film set in this city buys a red table for 30 grand and sees a vision of God who resembles himself with a beard. That film set in this city plays helicopter sounds and “Ride of the Valkyries” in a scene in which 3,000 pigeons are poisoned. A poet from this metro area recites a profane poem called “Evidently Chickentown” in a 2007 Anton Corbijn (“kor-BANE”) film inspired by the memoir Touching from a (*) Distance. A musician from this city hung himself while watching Werner Herzog’s Stroszek. In a 2002 Michael Winterbottom film, Tony Wilson breaks the fourth wall in a slow-motion scene set in this city’s Haçienda (“hah-see-EN-duh”) nightclub. For 10 points, 24 Hour Party People and Control depict Factory Records bands in what city’s 1980s “mad” music scene, like Joy Division? (10[1])■END■

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