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 by this director, another of whose films uses a 220-degree VR lens to shoot fictional scenes of Abu Ghraib. (15[1])This director has ended multiple films with a man and woman touching through prison glass, (15[1])one of many nods to Robert (*) Bresson’s (10[1])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 (-5[1])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 Taxi Driver. (10[1])■END■ (0[2])

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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
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