VOICE CHOICES ARCHIVES The Manchurian Candidate
by Jim Hoberman
Dir. John Frankenheimer (1962).
Far funnier than its recent remake, this darkest and most paranoid of early ‘60s thrillers, is pure essence of Camelot—it conflates brainwashing, conspiracy, assassination, and Frank Sinatra, too.
Wed., May 5, 8 p.m., 2010