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)?
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 [...]
[photopress:hannibal_rising.jpg,thumb,alignleft] 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 [...]