For 10 points each, answer the following about the intersection of Martin Scorsese’s advocacy interests: film preservation and world cinema.
[10e] Scorsese’s World Cinema Project helped restore The Chess Game of the Wind, a film from this country that was banned and presumed lost. Abbas Kiarostami’s Close Up is another film from this country.
ANSWER: Iran [or Persia; or Islamic Republic of Iran; or Jomhuri-ye Eslâmi-ye Irân]
[10m] The Project funded the restoration of this director’s film Black Girl, about an African maid who is mistreated by her French employers. This father of African cinema adapted his novel Xala (HA-la).
ANSWER: Ousmane Sembène [or Sembène Ousmane]
[10h] This 1960 film by Bengali director Ritwik Ghatak was restored by the Project. Its Shakespearean title describes the saintlike woman Nita, the main earner for a family of refugees from the 1947 partition.
ANSWER: The Cloud-Capped Star [or Meghe Dhaka Tara] (The phrase “cloud-capped towers” appears in Prospero’s Act IV, scene 1 monologue in The Tempest.)
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