Curtis Hanson

Only I'll tell them that I saw it.

Hello and welcome back to the Director's Wall Season 4 covering the films of The Journeyman Curtis Hanson.

I am one of your co-hosts, AJ Gonzalez.

And I'm Bryan Connolly.

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He's done a thriller in the past.

Can I say one thing about that? When we finished the album, she doesn't say a lot.

You know, he's like, Curtis Hanson was a great director, God rest his soul.

He directed me in Too Big to Fail, but of course he directed L.A.

Confidential.

Michael was at his home in New York City when I visited with him.

He's worked with everyone from Oliver Stone to Curtis Hanson to Steven Soderbergh.

In 1987, he worked with British director Adrian Lyne on Fatal Attraction.

Douglas says Lyne was one of the best.

It's Robert Downey Jr., Frances McDormand, Tobey Maguire, myself, uh, uh, uh, I'd like to-

Directed by Curtis Hanson.

Yeah.

Fantastic.

Yeah, Curtis Hanson-

Yeah

... di- directed it.

I'm not.

So, so I told that, I told that, um, Curtis Hanson.

I, I, I ran into...

Well, I had a, a meeting with Curtis probably seven or eight years ago.

I can't remember what the f-

Curtis Hanson, who directed Bad Influence and-

Yeah, and I can't remember what it was for

...

But Sweet Kill, the Tab Hunter movie, Yeah.

Movie directed by Curtis Hanson, who directed L.A.

Confidential.

It was Curtis Hanson's first film.

And Tab Hunter is a damaged individual from his parents who, again, is a proto-slasher.

And it's one that we know who the killer is.

It's fun.

So the director of this, by the way, Curtis Hanson, I don't know if you looked him up, but you'd recognize at least one thing he's done, which he did af- well after this, was L.A.

Confidential.

Uh-huh.

This is a real comic masterpiece.

It's directed by Curtis Hanson, though.

And I guess to loop it back in, that was the thing, is, like, everyone goes, oh, man, the roll call of directors Cruise worked with from, like, 81, even, to about 2005, 2006, whatever, 2007, I guess.

Even you throw in Robert Redford, Lions for Lambs, even...

it was very much like he was picking really singular filmmakers and you can go through the whole, you know, Paul Brickman and then Curtis Hanson and Francis Ford Coppola and Tony Scott and Ridley Scott and Oliver Stone and Barry Levinson and, On and on and on.

Sidney Pollack, Neil Jordan, on up to Kubrick in 99, Cameron Crowe, two movies with Spielberg.

And it was like, that was sort of the genius of Tom Cruise, where a lot of his peers, you know, look at a Charlie Sheen, who was a big star and people, you know, especially for my generation.