In a 1992 essay in Sight & Sound, B. Ruby Rich coined a type of “Queer Cinema” described by this adjective, which is exemplified by Todd Haynes’s film Poison. For 10 points each:
[10e] What adjective appears in the names of both an auteur-driven Hollywood movement of the 1970s and an experimental French movement whose films include Breathless?
ANSWER: new [or nouvelle; accept New Hollywood or French New Wave or Nouvelle Vague]
[10h] Rich’s essay cites this director’s queer film The Living End, which preceded his Teenage Apocalypse trilogy. Joseph Gordon-Levitt starred in this Japanese-American director’s film Mysterious Skin.
ANSWER: Gregg Araki
[10m] Rich praised My Own Private Idaho, which starred Keanu Reeves and an actor with this surname as hustlers. In a 2012 film, an actor with this surname played Freddie Quell, who joins Lancaster Dodd’s cult “The Cause.”
ANSWER: Phoenix [or Bottom; accept River Phoenix or Joaquin Phoenix or River Jude Bottom or Joaquin Rafael Bottom] (The latter film is The Master.)
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