Funny thing. I just saw William Petersen in To Live and Die in L.A. This film is almost a companion piece to that. Thanks for adding these scenes that I'd not seen before.
One of my favorite films. I was a big Mann fan from Miami Vice...which is what made me go see this in the theaters. Back in the late 90's I went to the same gym in Hollywood as William Peterson. I couldn't help but tell him how much I liked this and "To Live and Die in LA". He was very nice, we even spent a few minutes talking about Will Graham as a character (I had read the book too) and some of what he did to bring the character to life as we sweated in a steam room. One of the highlights of my tour of duty in LA/Hollywood.
I must have missed somthing there, how did Graham know who the next victims would be in the alternate ending, Dolarhyde was caught because Graham recognised he had watched the same home films? When I first saw Man Hunter back in 86, it blew me away, I have been a fan of Michael Mann's films since.
I just watched this again two nights ago and saw Patricia Charboneau’s name in credits but didn’t see her. I presumed she may have been one of the moms in the videos Graham was watching and didn’t notice, but now I see I didn’t miss her because she was deleted from the alternate ending.
7:14 that line when Hannibal said you say you’re a Lehman but it was you who caught me I only heard that line when Anthony Hopkins said it’s it’s the first time I heard Brian Cox said it
Most of the additions I like, apart from the wife talking about painting the kitchen. Some of the cutting in the other version did feel a bit abrupt at times.
I just had to look on my momentum Director's Cut release. 3 mins reinstated. These different cuts are not as challenging or provocative as competing versions of Orson Welles’ Mr. Arkadin (1955), they suggest the illusory nature of any “definitive” version for me personally, unlike Thomas Harris, Michael Mann returns his Graham safely home to his family and away from his own dark version of a 20th century Homeric Odyssey. Looks like Dr. Impossible will be watching Manhunter again, just to refresh Mann's 80s tones and Dante Spinotti employing particular colours to emphasise dark emotional moods and symbiotic parallels. If one thing has come out of this Gareth, you've made me go back to the film.
@VideoTasties Manhunter is watchable. I'll be taking notes when I do watch it. I'll probably watch Hannibal again at some point. All I have is the Columbia/Tri-Star Universal DVD from 2001.
