Anthony Michael Hall: An Appreciation

maisonneuve.org Has good words to say on our AMH.

I think that’s why his ownership of the main character in the TV series The Dead Zone—injured, weary, apart, miraculously and dubiously gifted—is so total. It’s an emotionally dusky show, but look how his humour somehow makes it in there. I loved Christopher Walken in that role—Johnny, the reluctant psychic—and sometimes I think the movie The Dead Zone is my favourite thing that he or David Cronenberg have ever done. I didn’t think I’d go for the TV version, but it caught me. It’s all about Hall. He produces it too—I’m telling you, the guy’s still got some surprises in him. It may sound nuts to you, but I can imagine him ageing into some kind of American Victor Sjostrom, tapped at eighty-something to anchor some twenty-first century filmic masterpiece, the equivalent of Wild Strawberries for a generation that today is barely out of diapers. You watch.