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Tag Archives: Kim Manners
December 2020 Viewing Diary
I hope you like The X-Files. Look forward to hearing from fans of the show. The past couple of months have been heart-wrenching for my family. It will continue to be so. We are struggling under the weight of the … Continue reading
Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies, Television
Tagged animation, Aubrey Plaza, biopic, children's movies, Citizen Kane, Cliff Bole, comedy, David Fincher, David Nutter, documentary, England, Kim Manners, Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich, romantic comedy, romantic drama, sci-fi, South Korea, Supernatural, Vietnam, What's Up Doc, women directors, X-Files
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Supernatural: Season 1, Episode 3: “Dead In the Water”
Re-post for Sheltering-in-Place Re-watch Directed by Kim Manners Written by Sera Gamble & Raelle Tucker Kim Manners died in 2009. He was such a huge part of helping to create the Supernatural aesthetic, both as a director (of some of … Continue reading
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Tagged Kim Manners, Raelle Tucker, Sera Gamble, SPN Season 1, Supernatural
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Supernatural: Season 3, Episode 1: “The Magnificent Seven”
Directed by Kim Manners Written by Eric Kripke The title of the episode tells us it’s a straight-up Western: villains riding into town, so-called good guys in their holdout, knowing they might die that night, and maybe one of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Eric Kripke, John Sturges, Kim Manners, SPN Season 3, Supernatural
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Supernatural: Season 2, Episode 22: “All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 2″
Directed by Kim Manners Written by Eric Kripke “There is no excellent beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.” – Francis Bacon For this episode, I’ll be going over ground I’ve covered – extensively? – in two other … Continue reading
March 2016 Viewing Diary
Supernatural, Season 2, Episode 20: “What Is and What Should Never Be” (2007; d. Eric Kripke) My 300-page re-cap here. At Any Price (2012; d. Ramin Bahrani) Inspired by the recent conversation Mitchell and I had about Zac Efron (Part … Continue reading
Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies, Television
Tagged Brad Pitt, Charles Beeson, David Lynch, England, Eric Kripke, France, Fritz Lang, Harriet Andersson, Ingmar Bergman, Ingrid Thulin, Ireland, Jensen Ackles, Jeremy Carver, Kim Manners, Liv Ullmann, Martin Scorsese, New Zealand, Ramin Bahrani, Richard Linklater, Ridley Scott, Robert Singer, Supernatural, Sweden, Thomas J. Wright, X-Files, Zac Efron
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Supernatural: Season 2, Episode 17: “Heart”
Directed by Kim Manners Written by Sera Gamble “Heart” has an insistent rhythm, like a heartbeat: The moon rises, sets. The sun rises, sets. The cycle repeats. Despite the urban setting, the rhythm of the natural world is explicit. The … Continue reading
Supernatural: Season 2, Episode 13: “Houses of the Holy”
Directed by Kim Manners Written by Sera Gamble Faces. It’s all about the Faces. You know Kim Manners studied and knew his Cassavetes. On the one hand, “Houses of the Holy” is a very bizarre episode, undeniably powerful and yet … Continue reading
Supernatural: Season 2, Episode 6: “No Exit”
Directed by Kim Manners Written by Matt Witten “So this is hell. I’d never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the “burning marl.” Old wives’ tales! There’s no need for … Continue reading
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Tagged Cary Grant, His Girl Friday, Howard Hawks, Kim Manners, Rosalind Russell, SPN Season 2, Supernatural
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Supernatural: Season 2, Episode 4: “Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things”
Directed by Kim Manners Written by Raelle Tucker While Sam is pretending to be a grief counselor, he says, “Grief makes people do crazy things.” Indeed. That’s what these early episodes of Season 2 are all about. Gordon blew the … Continue reading