Posts Tagged ‘Michael Mann’
Author: James
Dilligent on Dillinger
He’s one of America’s finest directors, but his previous film, Miami Vice (2006), was a huge disappointment. So, how has the collaboration of Michael Mann with two of the younger generation’s leading actors, Johnny Depp and Christian Bale, worked out in Public Enemies (2009)?
Author: James
Your story or your life?
It’s an interesting phenomenon – cinema, down the years, has by and large served the Fourth Estate very well. Choice examples such as Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole (1951), All the President’s Men (1976) by Alan J. Pakula, and Michael Mann’s The Insider (1999) are very much ancestors to Kevin McDonald’s State of Play (2009), which was itself originally a very highly rated Paul Abbott-written BBC mini-series directed by David Yates, back in 2003.
Author: James
Monster mess
‘I’m evil,’ said Lecter. ‘You can’t reduce me to mere behavioural abnormality.’
The good Doctor Hannibal’s words to young Clarice Starling, from the pages of The Silence of the Lambs. But, unfortunately, that’s exactly what Hannibal Rising director Peter Webber (Girl With a Pearl Earring, 2003), and, unforgivably, novel/screenplay writer and Lecter creator Thomas Harris have done to what once was perhaps the zeitgeist’s most lip-smacking depiction of ambiguous, erudite wickedness.
- Colin: Mike: the Matrix was utter toss. Don’t go there. Anyhow, I’m right with you on Aliens –...
- Colin: James: Why not do ten more and see if you can avoid putting the god-awful travesty that is Independence Day in...
- CD: The Day the Earth Stood Still (it’s about an alien who is Jesus…but better than ET) Soylent Green...
- James: Hello Chris, and welcome to Picturenose!
Many thanks for your comment – I thought, in fact, that... - James: Colin, good points, both on Westworld (which should really have been included, I know, I know) and otters.