A recurring character in this director’s films was present at the discovery of uranium and the fall of the Berlin Wall. The opening titles of one of this director’s films are interspersed with shots of two kids pulling a Dalmatian and of a tiger pacing next to a zebra’s decapitated head. In a film by this director, a woman’s dress inexplicably switches from red to white whenever she enters the bathroom, thus matching the palette (15[1])of her surroundings. A librarian is killed by being force-fed pages of his books, after which his killer is forced to (*) eat some of his dead body. In that film by this director, a gangster torments his wife Georgina and the staff at his French restaurant. Several of this director’s films are scored by Michael Nyman and reference Renaissance and Baroque art, such as the Vermeer-inspired A Zed & Two Noughts. For 10 points, name this director of The Draughtsman’s Contract and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover. ■END■