‘Manhunter: The Final Cut’ Shows Why Director’s Cuts Are Almost Never an Improvement. But It’s Still the Greatest Thriller of Our Time
If you’re a movie buff, a cinephile, or whatever else you want to call it (I called my 2016 memoir “Movie Freak”), one of the greatest pleasures to be had is when a film grabs hold of you and won’t let go. That’s happened to me a number of times, with movies like “Nashville” and “Carrie” and “Mean Streets” and “Sid and Nancy” and “Full Metal Jacket” and “Natural Born Killers” and “Boogie Nights.” I’ve been possessed by those films, driven to see them each of them over and over and over again, as if they were albums I was playing.
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If you’re a movie buff, a cinephile, or whatever else you want to call it (I called my 2016 memoir “Movie Freak”), one of the greatest pleasures to be had is when a film grabs hold of you and won’t let go. That’s happened to me a number of times, with movies like “Nashville” and “Carrie” and “Mean Streets” and “Sid and Nancy” and “Full Metal Jacket” and “Natural Born Killers” and “Boogie Nights.” I’ve been possessed by those films, driven to see them each of them over and over and over again, as if they were albums I was playing. (You can’t play an album too many times; same for a movie you love.) One of the supreme instances of that, for me, is Michael Mann’s “Manhunter.” It’s a thriller I got addicted to, for a number of reasons. I couldn’t get enough of its look and atmosphere, its fascination and terror, its extraordinary villain, its moody Sherlock-Holmes-as-forensic-underground-man FBI hero, its music-drenched vibe of saturnine lyricism.
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- If you’re a movie buff, a cinephile, or whatever else you want to call it (I called my 2016 memoir “Movie Freak”), one of the greatest pleasures to be had is when a film grabs hold of you and won’t let go. That’s happened to me a number of times, with movies like “Nashville” and “Carrie” and “Mean Streets” and “Sid and Nancy” and “Full Metal Jacket” and “Natural Born Killers” and “Boogie Nights.” I’ve been possessed by those films, driven to see them each of them over and over and over again, as if they were albums I was playing.
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‘Manhunter: The Final Cut’ Shows Why Director’s Cuts Are Almost Never an Improvement. But It’s Still the Greatest Thriller of Our Time
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