Actually not her first English-language movie, just her first feature entirely in English, and hardly her first foray into genre territory.

Thanks for catching that. Corrected.

The whole movie is in 1.37, except for that one shot. (The prologue mentioned by @TheAngryInternet:disqus and @woodyjang:disqus is in black-and-white; this trailer doesn't do justice to how vivid the color looks in the rest of the movie.)

I'm sorry, folks, but y'all are gonna have to deal with the fact that that Dowd and I consider 5 the best (and meanest) of the series. You wanna complain some more, we can always resurrect beloved characters Right-On and Dumbass.

No.

Definitely not what happens.

Йовович.

Alright, alright…

Intro paragraph.

"Caring about the hits" is a complex equation. The thing about New To Home Video is that it took a long time to write each one and took up a lot of editorial time to check. The effort that went into it wasn't proportionate to the size of the readership. It's on hold until we can find a more streamlined solution to…

No, by the receptionist, who wrote down the visitors' names as "James Joes" and "Sylvia Bisch," aka Sylvia Beach, owner of the Shakespeare and Co. bookstore.

Fact: Spent an afternoon in Eisenstein's widow's apartment, which is where his personal stuff is stored. No shampoo, but had lunch under a Walt Disney original while holding his copy of Ulysses, which had a hotel's While You Were Out tucked between the pages; card said James Joyce had stopped by while Eisenstein was…

Can't wait to see him fight the Ruffians.

Fun fact: That moon-faced guy was played by Doug Jones.

Ditto The Indian In The Cupboard. There were plans to adapt the other books.

The song is my go-to reference for a terrible scene in an otherwise great movie. Couldn't find a way to work it in while writing this, though.

"…a genre version of Whiplash…"

That's an old urban legend. Also, that wide shot above isn't the movie. It's a production still from the set.

Yep. As I mentioned in the piece, Mann's screenplays have all of this extra background narrative that's supposed to inform performance, and Hanna's drug problems are in there.

Re: That particular urban legend. Mann shoots dialogue scenes with multiple cameras, to preserve continuity of performance. There were actually three for that scene (over-the-shoulders for De Niro and Pacino, plus a wider master shot), but he ultimately didn't use the master, so they don't appear together in full…