Question

A film by this director includes a theme for flute and tar meant to evoke “space frozen in a dynamic equilibrium.” That film by this director transitions from sepia into full color when a group of men arrive at a field (10[1])littered with abandoned military equipment. (-5[1])Another (10[1])film by this director includes a “levitation” scene in which the camera pans across Brueghel’s Hunters in the Snow, (10[1])a painting to which he returned in his autobiographical film Mirror. This director (10[1])adapted the Strugatsky brothers’ novel Roadside Picnic into a film about a professor and a writer (10[1])journeying into the “Zone.” In another film by this director, Kris Kelvin encounters his dead wife on a space station orbiting the title planet. For 10 points, name this Soviet director of Stalker and Solaris. (10[1])■END■ (10[1]0[2])

ANSWER: Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Jake GrodnerPrinceton AColumbia B4010
Sam MacchiVassarColumbia A45-5
Owen MimnoNYU ANYU B4610
William HelmanBard ARowan A6510
Karsten RynearsonYale APrinceton B7810
Nathan ZhangCornell CRutgers B9410
Audrey ChoHaverfordYale C12910
William GrogerColumbia AVassar13010
Srikar VenkatesanPenn BPenn A1300
Vishal KanigicherlaPenn APenn B1300

Summary

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