I saw it the day it came out at a theater in Maryland and the shootout was the loudest thing I'd ever heard indoors. I remember thinking that only Heat and Schindler's List treat guns like they're as loud as they actually are.

My description and recommendation: this movie is the equivalent of a meal of grass-fed, dry-aged medium rare prime rib, with steamed asparagus with slivered almonds and drawn butter on the side, garlic-horseradish mashed potatoes, with an appetizer of panko breaded thick cut onion rings and a key lime pie with…

Tone Loc absolutely stealing the movie right out of Pacino's hands.

Mann felt that Hanna was too much of a professional to get the crew on a lesser charge. Like so much in the film, it's a set of ethics he shares with McCauley.

I fucking love this movie. And that sequence is the best use of shot-reverse shot in the history of movies; it uses the language of film to make two characters look at each other when they can't see each other.

The score is great, but the best thing about the movie is Jeff Fahey and Michael Biehn, and they get a death scene together.  It's like a 2-minute tribute to all of the 80s cheapo action flicks.

Those of us who are teachers or have taught all agree that "Hush" has the greatest lecture scene in all of pop culture.

Indeed.  We got into a good discussion of it in the Wrapped Up in Books feature, which is less like to be back now that (FUCK IT'S DUSTY IN HERE—OK, enough, focus on the future dammit)

Have you gotten to A Scanner Darkly yet?

"I get to be wrong.  And I get to change."
I'm gonna post that on the top of my computer screen right now and remember it always.  That is the greatest pleasure of thinking, the ability to responsibly change one's mind.

(pat pat pat)  there there, he is @avclub-a9ba553828f4a0900f6d53a825651453:disqus -Lie-Smith after all.  That means you're great and he's just jealous.

Oh God. I suspect you'll be done by Monday.  Make sure you have something strong to take when it's all over.

wallflower Is Listening To. . .

Sidney Lumet (God rest 'im) got Shannon, Rosemary Harris, and Denis O'Hare on Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, and talked about how they were all primarily theater actors, and specifically New York theater actors, and said the same thing.

(-:  A warning, based on the comments of new viewers:  1) you're gonna finish the whole thing inside a month and 2) you will be in no condition to do ANYTHING after the final episode.  We're thinking of starting a support group.

yeah, "back in the day" refers to over a decade ago.  Some more recent commenters have found the correct link.

He also has that great feeling that some successful stage actors get when they become famous in film, the feeling of "yeah, I can take this or leave this."  I could hear the entire interview in his voice.

I do agree on that one…dePalma and Cage doing their thang, nothin wrong with that. (EDIT: one of the things I really like is not just the 12-minute tracking shot, but the perfect way dePalma comes out of it.)

Back in the day, I used wu-name.com, and it gave me Bellowing Rap Master.  I am ever so cool with that.

Don't see Heat on there, can't take it seriously.  (One of the most masterful pieces of storytelling ever; not only a great opening scene, but the entire plot plays out from the first ten minutes.)