I did not know until now that "The Touch" was an actual song, thought it was just another perfect awful 80s imitation by PTA. Mind, blown.

Dolarhyde wouldn't be so crude as to go in through the front door, but we're already seeing some deviations from the source, so yeah, could be.

When that happened, a Harris line came to me: "it's whimsy."  He does it because why not?

@avclub-f121d09285898f1c66d66f1e6f0455a6:disqus :  one thing that Michael Mann did really well in Manhunter was give us a sense of Will Graham as being both very skilled in forensics and having an extra sense of empathy with the killers.  He did this in a more straightforward way, by having William Petersen narrate…

Actually it seemed like Fuller was trying to cram in as many Harris lines as he could,  often changing the source and the context.  It worked (you wouldn't notice if you've never read Red Dragon) but it'll be interesting to see what he does once he runs out of source material.

Yup.  Hannibal is forever a great secondary character and the more you know about him the more boring he becomes.  Graham is actually someone interesting and explorable.

I absolutely loved it as a young 'un, and looking at as an adult, there is some incredible imagery in there—big Pequod feeling at the end. It's actually, in outline, a pretty damn compelling story, and I am goofily optimistic about this.

Hells to the yeah. And whatever happened to Joseph Bottoms? He was great.

What I got from him (and from Siskel, and Pauline Kael) is simple, and rarely understood: this is about love. The love of what we see and hear and feel, and criticism is about giving that love back. It's about saying thank you, and nothing else. Not demonstrating a theory or showing you're better than someone else,…

*raises hand*

I saw that movie because of that review.

WHAAAAAAAAH.

Hello?

(voice on phone):  "Sorry, Brad passed on Spy Game 2.  I hear the Shia kid's interested, though."

What about Chaucer?

SIIIIIIIIMMMMMMMS!

Take a deep breath before you start The Year of Magical Thinking. It's Didion but it's also unlike anything she's ever done, and absolutely emotionally overwhelming.

Stop every now and then and read it out loud. It's like Shakespeare or Mamet, you get a buzz just from the language. There's a passage near the end that is just about the best thing anyone ever said about God.

:'(

Malick's Blood Meridian would be about as bad an adaptation, and as amazing, as his Thin Red Line or Kubrick's Shining or Werner Herzog's upcoming remake of Office Space. All of them take the source material and rework it into something much more personal to the director (and all of these directors are least concerned…