He featured Ivor Novello as a character and used several of his songs in a whodunit late in his career.
One of this director's films opens with a long sequence shot in which a character exalts a different director's Touch of Evil for using the same technique. He featured Ivor Novello as a character and used several of his songs in a whodunit late in his career. In another film by him, a sexual encounter broadcast over a PA system earns a woman the nickname "Hot Lips," and the main characters play a football game before heading home in their stolen Jeep. A large cast converges at an outdoor concert at the Parthenon Theater in one film by this director, and another focuses on Duke, Trapper, and Hawkeye, three army doctors during the Korean War. For 10 points, name this New Hollywood director of The Player, Gosford Park, MASH, and a film about country music called Nashville.
One of this director's films opens with a long sequence shot in which a character exalts a different director's Touch of Evil for using the same technique.
Robert Altman