What lingers is not the question of what the monster is. It is the feeling that the film has constructed a world where danger is both external and internal. The thing under the bed is no more or less real than the lives these characters have built.
"One thing that's really interesting to me...is that one of our great cultural critics is Stephen King... the basically the first big review of Red Dragon in the I think it was in the Washington Post in 1981, and it is not only a rave, but it is completely 100 spot on. Red Dragon is like stepping into a limousine where everything works... perfectly."
In this very special bonus episode of MINHUNTER, I speak to the extremely talented journalist, author and podcaster Brian Raftery about his great new novel, HANNIBAL LECTER - A LIFE.
Cinema is life to The Secret Agent’s writer and director, Brazilian critic-turned-filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho.
All the preparation in the world will not prepare you for the surreal moment when a previously unnoticed slide door opens, and Ethan Hawke steps through.
We're here to cross the streams and discuss the amazing work of Kelly Reichardt, featured on MUBI, with the terrific, wise, and funny Brandon Streussnig.
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The point was never the gig or the success. It is the continuity. The same faces, the same jokes, the same refusal to move on.