Yet the current production by his Atlantic Theatre Company, with its quiet, deliberate direction and understated performances, only heightens the bitter themes for which Mr Mamet's distinctive, biting dialogue was meant.
He was a great early American cartoonist who drew Sunday comics in a loose slapstick style that'll make you chortle before you even get to his distinctive Yiddishy dialogue.
He checks in with his flight-dynamics and conceptual-paradigm officers at Colorado Command (and we ask ourselves — has there ever been a more distinctive exponent of dialogue than Don DeLillo?): "We have a deviate, Tomahawk".
The Coen brothers's adaptation of the Charles Portis novel "True Grit" deserves high praise for its faithfulness to the original's distinctive Western-baroque dialogue and to its inscrutable comedic timing.
By Ian Crouch January 11 , 2011The Coen brothers's adaptation of the Charles Portis novel "True Grit" deserves high praise for its faithfulness to the original's distinctive Western-baroque dialogue and to its inscrutable comedic timing.
He checks in with his flight-dynamics and conceptual-paradigm officers at Colorado Command (and we ask ourselves has there ever been a more distinctive exponent of dialogue than Don DeLillo?): "We have a deviate, Tomahawk".
With its gloriously free-wheeling cinematography, pungent improvised dialogue, distinctive ambient sound and dramatic scenes that appear to have been serendipitously discovered by Burnett's camera, this is a hidden gem that sparkles in the light.
When "Lush Life" was published, in 2008, our reviewer, James Wood, discussed Price's distinctive talent for dialogue: "Lush Life," which is filled with page after page of vital speech, shows [Price] inventing a life for dialogue rather than just taking it from life; and this spoken magic is often indistinguishable from Price's apparently more formal, descriptive prose….
For the French, the main value of these films lies in the work of Michel Audiard, who, over the course of 20 films, wrote a distinctive style of dialogue grounded in the imaginatively insolent slang of the Parisian working class, which does not translate easily into subtitles.
Indeed, his sparkling, distinctive gift for dialogue and whiplash changes in emotion from sincere to silly are on full display.
In an issue of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, where Buffy travels to the future, Whedon writes Buffy's reaction to the future dialect of Manhattan; this allows Whedon to comment on the series' distinctive style of dialogue.
