Showing posts with label Michael Mann. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michael Mann. Show all posts
Thursday, June 9, 2016

The late Muhammad Ali lives on in compelling docs ranging from the crowd-pleasing When We Were Kings to the heartbreaking Muhammad and Larry

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(Photo source: RogerEbert.com) I was too young to catch the late Muhammad Ali in his prime as a boxer and civil rights activist . So it...
Friday, May 6, 2016

AFOS Blog Rewind: Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans, now streaming on Showtime Anytime, careens down the twisted path of a racing film that’s like no other

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From November 20, 2015 , here's a repost of my discussion of the 1971 film Le Mans , the subject of Steve McQueen: The Man & Le...
Friday, April 29, 2016

A memo to pop stars: If you're filming a highly stylized visual album and you take your preschooler daughter to work one day, she's going to get antsy

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I've watched Beyoncé's Lemonade visual album only once, when HBO Go had the streaming rights to the visual album for just one da...
Friday, April 1, 2016

"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week: Archer, "The Figgis Agency"

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Occasionally on Friday, I discuss the week's best first-run animated series episode I saw. It's the "Brokedown Merry-Go-Roun...
Wednesday, December 9, 2015

With "Love Crime," Brian Reitzell and Siouxsie Sioux somehow surpassed Manhunter's use of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" for Graham's fight with Dollarhyde when Hannibal musically tackled that same moment

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Former Hannibal composer Brian Reitzell and the recently unretired Siouxsie Sioux (Photo source: EW.com ) Brian Reitzell's eerie s...
Friday, November 20, 2015

A new doc careens down the twisted path of Steve McQueen's gritty, Michel Legrand-scored Le Mans, an auto racing film that's like no other

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With Le Mans , Steve McQueen, an auto racing enthusiast, set out to make as authentic an auto racing film as possible. The result, which w...
Thursday, August 13, 2015

Throwback Thursday: Collateral

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Every Throwback Thursday , I randomly pull out from my desk cabinet--with my eyes closed--a movie ticket I saved. Then I discuss the movi...
Thursday, August 6, 2015

Throwback Thursday: Drive (2011)

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Every Throwback Thursday , I randomly pull out from my desk cabinet--with my eyes closed--a movie ticket I saved. Then I discuss the movi...