His best scenes, like the opening one here in which the insidious, perfidious Landa cleverly convinces a French farmer to give away the hiding place of a Jewish family beneath his floorboards, rely on masterful camerawork and dialogue so calorific and indulgent that you would not be surprised to have to loosen your belt a little upon departing the cinema.
The real delight is the discovery of Simon's perfect ear for dialogue; his masterful construction and pacing; and his empathy for his occasionally brutal but nevertheless inspirational subjects.
Where the Pulp Fiction director reworks cheap B-movie material with diamond-cut dialogue and masterful staging, the German director steals all the best bits from classic Hollywood action adventure and stitches them together to create a horrifyingly ersatz frankenmovie.
Walking out of the theater, I was buzzing: Like every Tarantino film, Inglourious Basterds delivers zippy entertainment, masterful filmmaking, and intelligent dialogue.
The movie's opening scene which you can watch here, narrated by Refn, though without the music or dialogue, sadly is a masterful layering of sounds that court total discord but somehow remain separate and intelligible, thereby making them all the more nerve-scraping: the pulse of a drum machine, a police radio, a basketball game broadcast, the beeping of an open car door.
Among the show's many pleasures -- crisp yet expansive direction, snappy dialogue and a masterful performance from supporting actor Rick Hoffman as Louis Litt -- is a rather interesting exploration of where and why Harvey draws moral and ethical lines.
The movie's opening scene — which you can watch here, narrated by Refn, though without the music or dialogue, sadly — is a masterful layering of sounds that court total discord but somehow remain separate and intelligible, thereby making them all the more nerve-scraping: the pulse of a drum machine, a police radio, a basketball game broadcast, the beeping of an open car door.
In the opening dialogue of Alain Resnais's masterful Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), the reference to which all other films on the subject must incline, a French actor in Hiroshima for a film, tells her Japanese lover that she has seen everything in Hiroshima – the exhibits in the museum, the news footage of the injured and dying.
A master player in masterful company.
His most masterful works in prose are the lively and elegant dialogues Côrte na Aldeia (1619; "Village Court"), in which a young noble, a student, a wealthy gentleman, and a man of letters discuss manners, philosophy, social questions, and especially literary style.
