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December 27, 2006
Graf of the week: Manohla on Mann
Reportedly, NY Times doesn't let its crickets write recommendations unless they're the principal reviewer, but with year-end lists, anyone curious about what Manohla Dargis thought of Miami Vice can find out in her best-of-year citations: "Michael Mann doesn’t always receive the critical respect he deserves, partly because he likes to make genre films; maybe if he had hired Jack Nicholson to run around with Crockett and Tubbs 
he might have at least seduced the audience. Glorious entertainment, Miami Vice is a gorgeous, shimmering object, and it made me think more about how new technologies are irrevocably changing our sense of what movies look like than any film I’ve seen this year. Partly shot using a Viper FilmStream camera, the film shows us a world that seems to stretch on forever, without the standard sense of graphical perspective. When Crockett and Tubbs stand on a Miami roof, it’s as if the world were visible in its entirety, as if all our familiar time-and-space coordinates had dropped away, because they have." BONUS dialogue from Vice: Detective Gina Calabrese's Harry Callahan-style drop-dead: "That's not what happens. What will happen is... what will happen is I will put a round at twenty-seven hundred feet per second into the medulla at the base of your brain. And you will be dead from the neck down before your body knows it. Your finger won't even twitch. Only you get dead. So tell me, sport, do you believe that?"
Posted by Ray Pride at December 27, 2006 01:51 PM
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