Manhunter (Mann, 1986): Prince Charles Cinema, 6pm
This 35mm presentation also screens on October 6th. Details here.
Time Out review:
'Michael Mann hits top form with this splendidly stylish and oppressive thriller adapted from Thomas Harris' Red Dragon.
The plot is complex and ingenious: FBI forensics expert Will Graham
(William Peterson), blessed (and tormented) by an ability to fathom the workings
of the criminal mind through psychic empathy, is brought back from
voluntary retirement to track down a serial killer, the 'Tooth Fairy'.
Focused on the anxiety and confusion of the hunter rather than his
psychotic prey, the film functions both as a disturbing examination of
voyeurism, and as an often almost unbearably grim suspenser. Mann
creates a terrifying menacing atmosphere without resorting to graphic
depiction of the seriously nasty killings: music, designer-expressionist
'Scope photography, and an imaginative use of locations, combine with
shots of the aftermath of the massacres to evoke a world nightmarishly
perceived by Graham's haunted sensibility. The performances, too, are
superior, most memorably Cox's intellectually brilliant and malevolent
asylum inmate. One of the most impressive American thrillers of the late
'80s.'
Geoff Andrew
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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