Question

In one film, this director zooms in on a shot of pepto-bismol mixing into a glass of whisky. A wide shot of a man approaching from the distance on a winding snowy forest path cuts to the bloody remains of a man lying dead in a film (15[1])by this director, another of whose films uses a 220-degree VR lens to shoot fictional scenes of Abu Ghraib. This director has ended multiple films with a man and woman touching through prison glass, one of many nods to Robert (*) Bresson’s Pickpocket. This director, who takes studio-requested breaks from Facebook before releases, filmed a character who wraps himself in barbed wire before kissing a woman as the camera rotates around them at the end of another film. For 10 points, name this director of The Card Counter and First Reformed, who also wrote (10[1])Taxi Driver. ■END■ (0[2])

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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Henry AtkinsLibrary of Babel School of Continuing StudiesWaterloo Hatsune4615
Nicolas EdwardsLa Clique du ChâteauToronto Weary13910
Ishan JoshiMixed-Affiliated Contingency, Off the Team & Absent: Wong, AdrianWaterloo Miku1420
Micah ColmanWaterloo MikuMixed-Affiliated Contingency, Off the Team & Absent: Wong, Adrian1420

Summary

2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)10/21/2023Y250%0%0%141.00
2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)10/21/2023Y540%20%20%79.50
2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal)10/28/2023Y10%0%0%0.00
2023 Penn Bowl (South Central)10/28/2023Y1100%0%0%142.00
2023 Penn Bowl (UK)10/28/2023Y580%40%20%93.25
2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo10/28/2023Y367%33%0%92.50
2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC10/28/2023Y20%0%0%0.00
2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU10/28/2023Y20%0%50%0.00