Question
A film by this director has a modal jazz soundtrack that Miles Davis recorded in one sitting and opens with a murderer forgetting a grappling hook on the side of an office building. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this director of Elevator to the Gallows and The Lovers. A 1981 film by this director records a dinner conversation between a theater director and Wallace Shawn.
ANSWER: Louis Malle (“lwee mall”) [or Louis Marie Malle] (The film is My Dinner with Andre.)
[10m] This other film is frequently compared to Elevator to the Gallows because of its soundtrack by Martial Solal and its plot about a criminal obsessed with Humphrey Bogart. Multiple jump cuts of Jean Seberg in a car chase appear in this 1960 film.
ANSWER: Breathless [or À bout de souffle or Out of Breath] (by Jean-Luc Godard)
[10e] Elevator to the Gallows was Malle’s first feature film after producing the underwater documentary The Silent World with this French oceanographer, who inspired Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic of Steve Zissou.
ANSWER: Jacques Cousteau [or Jacques-Yves Cousteau]
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| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 80% | 20% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ MIT | 01/27/2024 | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
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| UNC A (Grad) | UNC C (UG) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| GWU B (Grad) | JMU A (UG) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Duke A (UG) | Liberty C (DII) | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |