An overhead shot in a film by this director slowly pans left to show a boy swinging on a bar above a staircase, and then sitting at a movie, at Mass, and in a drab classroom. A scene by this director scored to “The Carousel Waltz” shows a boy bathed in a triangle of light between his mother and aunt, before a dissolve of the three walking around a carnival. This director’s literary biopics include Benediction, about Siegfried Sassoon, and A Quiet Passion, about Emily Dickinson. Diegetic a cappella singing of (*) music hall songs and slow pans characterize this director’s films set in the 1950s, such as a coming-of-age film about Bud. For 10 points, name this director who drew on his childhood in working-class Liverpool for his films Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes. ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 11 | 64% | 55% | 18% | 79.71 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ani Perumalla | The RAND Coöperation | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | 34 | 15 |
| Tim Morrison | BHSU B | It's not X, but... defenders | 77 | 15 |
| William Golden | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | Broken Socal Scene | 77 | 15 |
| Alvin Guo | Please sir, may I have some morb? | Floridovician | 77 | 15 |
| Connor Mayers | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | BHSU X | 77 | 15 |
| Halle Friedman | Big is moving to Evanston! | Halifax Shipping Services | 78 | -5 |
| Emmett Laurie | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | 78 | 15 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | 111 | -5 |
| Omkar Marathe | Halifax Shipping Services | Big is moving to Evanston! | 138 | 0 |
| Henry Atkins | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | Do re mi fa serving negs | 138 | 0 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Do re mi fa serving negs | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | 138 | 0 |
| Seth Ebner | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 138 | 0 |
| Shahar Schwartz | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 138 | 0 |
| Mitch McCullar | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | 138 | 10 |
| Adrian Wong | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | 138 | 0 |