In an interview, this film’s cinematographer Robby Müller likened himself to a pianist in discussing how he constructed a scene of a man seeing his reflection imposed on a woman’s face in the one-way glass of a peep show. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this film whose opening scene uses natural light to depict a man wearing a suit and red baseball cap wandering in a desert. A Blind Willie Johnson song inspired Ry Cooder’s slide guitar-heavy score for this film.
ANSWER: Paris, Texas (by Wim Wenders)
[10e] Müller invented the Kino Flo system for this aspect of cinematography supervised on set by gaffers. Müller eschewed this filmmaking aspect’s terminology, like “key,” “fill,” and “back.”
ANSWER: lighting
[10h] Müller’s first color film for this director features standout splashes of red seen in the suitcase of two Japanese blues fans. A monochrome film by this director begins with the arrest of an Italian tourist, a pimp, and a disc jockey.
ANSWER: Jim Jarmusch [or James Robert Jarmusch] (The films mentioned are Mystery Train and Down by Law.)
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