I really hope a definitive version comes out soon. I'd read in some interviews that he was interested in looking back at it. Criterion would be a perfect choice if they could get their hands on it.

He's great. I saw him in a David Gordon Green movie (forget the name, I think Sam Rockwell is in it) where he played a guy leading a HS marching band playing "Sledgehammer" by Peter Gabriel, and he's criticizing them in a rather humorous way after.

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Farina has some great reactions in this. To the Atlanta PD guy, you can just tell he wants to rip the prick's throat out. And laughing when Graham is giving Freddy Lounds false info on the Tooth Fairy.

He's the best thing about To Live And Die In L.A., but I'm not crazy about it otherwise. It's Friedkin reheating The French Connection in a microwave instead of taking his time doing it with an oven.

Yeah there's stuff I'd watch over and over back then that I wouldn't bat an eye at now.

I don't think the way he's portrayed on the show would ever get over in a 2-hour movie, not now and really not then. The character in Manhunter is much more masculine than what's on the show. It's not to say that Dancy is playing him as a dandy, but his aversion to guns and weaponry as established early on certainly…

The thing that really annoys me about that scene is that I'm always unclear if there is glass over Lecktor's cell or not. There is in some scenes but the way they are talking it sounds as if there's just the bars between them.

His Lecter is like the evil inverse of Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption. He's got a run of the place and acts less the caged animal Hopkins does in Silence. I can't really choose between them though this is the much better film of them all. Hannibal is a distant 2nd for me as I never really got into Silence.

"Baby Come Back" when Homer loses Maggie.

Season four of Dexter pays homage to this several times. There's one scene where Lithgow is revealed by opening a door and for a second you'd swear it was Noonan after he killed the yuppie guy.

The guy who played Bulldog on Frasier is in it too.

It makes sense, if you consider that during and after Manhunter his head was a little fucked considering the research he had done. I've heard about other instances in serial killer films where that's happened.

I know the scene you're referring to, and I didn't catch it until recently. Mind was quite blown at that.

Dylan, Beatles, Timothy Leary, etc.

I saw something that he and Dustin Hoffman would play the other's character in rehearsals while filming Rain Man. That would have been something to see.

The silliest one I heard is that it's Cruise's character from The Color of Money because they're both named Vincent.

I saw the film twice in theaters, and both times the crowd broke out in laughter when Max's boss interrupts again and Vincent says "what is it with this guy?". There are a few other moments like that, but one way in which this film works is that there's a hidden levity that is a relief from the tension. Something that…

I thought he was wonderful in it. I really think that performance is something more slightly to the center of his work in Saving Private Ryan and The Green Mile. Both of those characters were good men, but very quiet and secretive, and almost quite stoic.

It's surprising how well the band miming along to "Spanish Key" looks.