Yeah, I like Anthony Mann so I've seen a lot of his stuff. He is great and it's cool how he sort of brought the film noir approach to westerns and then brought the western approach to his epics. It's funny I've read some things where actors claim never to have worked with Kubrick on Spartacus and say all their scenes were done with Mann. I've never read anything that really explains what Kubrick shot and what Mann shot. I guess Fall of the Roman Empire was something Mann really wanted to do after getting the boot from Spartacus.

Robin Williams does seem to be a sure sign that you're gonna get a bad film. I love Williams as a comedian but it seems fairly hard to use him as an actor. I think it's the fact that his comedy is all stream of consciousness and what makes him so funny is you never know what's coming next. When they put him in a film he's reined in and everything seems canned and planned. It just never works and so I think he tried to do a bunch of darker stuff against type and he can act, no doubt about it, but the films he ends up in just tend to be pretty lame. He seems to be in about one decent film a decade. I thought he was one of the best things about Good Will Hunting and I loved him in The Fisher King, probably his best role, but I've avoided most of his stuff because it looks so damn bad.

I guess Malick has done a director's cut of New World which is 3 hours long and will be out on dvd shortly. I this what you have, PK?