MANHUNTER: THE FINAL CUT Review: Michael Mann's Masterpiece Receives a Much Anticipated 4k Upgrade

[For now, at least, a lucky, privileged few can catch Manhunter: The Final Cut, StudioCanal’s 4k restoration of filmmaker Michael Mann’s masterpiece, as it tours arthouses, rep houses, and other assorted houses around the country.]   Released in the summer of 1986 to critical disapproval and audience disinterest, filmmaker Michael Mann’s Manhunter, the first — and inarguably best — adaptation of Thomas Harris’s bestselling 1981 novel, “Red Dragon," almost immediately saw a turn in its fortunes.   VHS renters discovered and gloried in Manhunter’s hallucinatory mix of frequent Mann collaborator Dante Spinotti’s neon-drenched visuals; The Reds and Michel Rubini's moody, synth-flavored soundtrack; and grimly compelling subject matter: The pursuit of Tom Noonan’s terrifying, if still all-too-human, family killer, Francis Dollarhyde, by a desperate FBI and the...

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