Notes on…

Manhunter(1986)

Dir. Directed by Michael Mann

Will Graham's beachside house was actually owned by avant-garde artist, Robert Rauschenberg.


Thief, from 1981 […] felt like a belated New Hollywood feature, steeped in the immediate misery of its protagonist. His 1986 adaptation of Thomas Harris’s Red Dragon, however, is contemporary to a fault, so reflective of current aesthetic trends that it becomes a quintessential depiction of them.

Jake Cole (Slant Magazine)


A feature-length riff on Nietzsche’s old quote about looking long into the abyss.

Sean Burns (RogerEbert.com)

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FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecter, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecter to capture a new killer.