12/4/2023 0 Comments The manchurian candidate imdb![]() Jonathan Demme had tried to work his elusive magic on another early Sixties treasure, the Cary Grant/Audrey Hepburn confection Charade … and wound up with The Truth About Charlie, the biggest critical and commercial disappointment of his career. Majors studios are always looking to plunder the vaults, eager to turn yesterday’s properties into tomorrow’s surefire hits, but John Frankenheimer’s 1962 conspiracy thriller wasn’t Starsky and Hutch or Fat Albert or even The Stepford Wives, to name three other I.P. It never sounded like a good idea to remake The Manchurian Candidate. This week: Scott Tobias on Jonathan Demme’s 2004 remake of The Manchurian Candidate. ![]() We’re calling the series “ Revisiting Hours” - consider this Rolling Stone’s unofficial film club. Every Friday, we’re recommending an older movie that’s available to stream or download and worth seeing again through the lens of our current moment.
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