Speaking of his experiences watching Ingmar Bergman's Swedish-language productions, he argues: "With a master director at work and a troupe of finely drilled actors, the real essence of the theatrical event is communicated visually, physically, and aurally.
Like them, he achieved the invisible technique that only master directors do, and he used that technique to erase the barriers between the audience and the people on screen, even the most appalling of them.
But alongside the Brits, both producers like to associate themselves to authentic American master directors too, and Rudin has had more success there than Weinstein.
Other notable deaths were those of playwright Romulus Linney; Philip Rose, the Broadway producer of A Raisin in the Sun; Tennessee-based poet and playwright Jo Carson; Los Angeles producer Gil Cates; Romanian-born master director Liviu Ciulei; costumer Theoni V. Aldredge; and pioneering gay playwright Doric Wilson.
The psychiatrist turns out to be an excellent dream-interpreter; with his ability to transform Picard's talk into visions and to recognize their symbolic power, he is, in effect, a master director, a demiurge who brings stories to light and turns them into images of the inner life.
"He's just a master director," Damon added.
Only for this Zen master director could one say that this reaction should be taken as some kind of compliment.
Read the full review Russian master director Alexander Sokurov follows up his Hermitage meditation Russian Ark with this dreamlike installation film about France's culture repository, the Louvre.
"The public is f'Chrissake smarter than we are!" Notes on Cinematography by Robert Bresson (1975; translated by Jonathan Griffin 1977) Uncanny epigrams from a master director.
Read a full review 12 Beautifully shot martial arts fable by Taiwanese master director Hou Hstarringen, Shu Qing Shu Qi as an assassin sent to kill her cousin as a test.
