Christoph Waltz won Best Supporting Actor twice, for Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained, both for Quentin Tarantino, and the opening farmhouse scene of the first is among the finest sustained dialogue sequences in modern film. He was almost unknown internationally at fifty-three, having worked in German television for decades.
August DiehlInglourious Basterds (2009) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Tarantino wrote it in 1998, could not solve the ending, made Kill Bill instead, and came back a decade later. The opening scene is a twenty-five minute conversation…
Christoph Waltz2015 Sam Mendes Bond film with Craig. Christoph Waltz as Oberhauser-Blofeld, attempted retroactive franchise unification.
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