Question

Intertitles from poems by Walt Whitman are interspersed in a 1921 short film by Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler titled for this place. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this place. A couple on a park bench under a bridge watches the sunrise in a scene of a Woody Allen film titled for this place, in which his character answers the question “Why is life worth living?” from a couch.
ANSWER: Manhattan [accept Manhatta; prompt on New York City or NYC] (The second film is Woody Allen’s Manhattan.)
[10m] Manhatta pioneered a genre of avant-garde documentary whose name appends “city” to this sort of work, also in the subtitle of Walter Ruttmann’s Berlin. Nosferatu’s subtitle identifies it as this sort of work “of horror.”
ANSWER: symphony [accept city-symphony; or Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis; or Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror]
[10e] The Paris city symphony Nothing But Time was shot by a director from this country known mononymously as Cavalcanti. Rocket grows up in a slum in this country in Fernando Meirelles’s (“may-RELL-lees’s”) film City of God.
ANSWER: Brazil [or Federative Republic of Brazil]
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