Michael Tolkin

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q1723417: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as writer, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they wrote, which the two lists below run through too: The Player (1992); Deep Cover; The New Age; The Offer; The Rapture. Count them as director (2 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Alfred Hitchcock: 1 line

craft (craft) · through The Player (1992), which they wrote: Alfred Hitchcock ⇒ The Player (the host's read). Wesley notes the Hitchcock-like touches in the rattlesnake and police station scenes.
“Little Hitchcock homage, I feel like.”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:05:45 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Internal Affairs (1990): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Deep Cover, which they wrote: Internal Affairs ⇒ Deep Cover (the host's read). Deep Cover was conceived as a sequel to Internal Affairs; Michael Tolkin and Henry Bean got involved in writing it.
“Deep cover was conceived as a sequel to this movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:29:39 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Nashville (1975): 1 line

craft (craft) · through The Player (1992), which they wrote: Nashville ⇒ The Player (the host's read). Wesley says the tricks Altman uses in The Player, like famous people dropping into a space, are ones he used in Nashville.
“a lot of the tricks that he's using in the player, I mean, he uses in Nashville, right?”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:17:32 · Wesley Morris (0.85 sure it was them)

Singin' in the Rain (1952): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through The Player (1992), which they wrote: Singin' in the Rain ⇒ The Player (the host's read). Sean says movies about movies go back long before The Player, e.g. Singin' in the Rain, but this one is far more inside the joke.
“Going back to singing in the rain.”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:04:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

The Long Goodbye (1973): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through The Player (1992), which they wrote: The Long Goodbye ⇒ The Player (the host's read). Wesley reads Greta Scacchi's character as an echo of Nina van Pallandt's ice queen in The Long Goodbye, itself a riff on noir femmes fatales.
“that character is a an echo of another Altman character, the Nina Van Palant character in the longabai”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:07:08 · Wesley Morris (0.80 sure it was them)

Touch of Evil (1958): 1 line

craft (craft) · through The Player (1992), which they wrote: Touch of Evil ⇒ The Player (the host's read). The Player's opening nods to Touch of Evil's tracking shot by having Fred Ward's character talk about it, then reveal he never watches foreign films.
“Fred Ward talking about the tracking shot and touch of evil, but then revealing that he never watches foreign films.”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:35:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

The Larry Sanders Show (1992): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through The Player (1992), which they wrote: The Player ⇒ The Larry Sanders Show (the host's read). Bill asks whether The Player is ground zero for the meta-Hollywood strain that runs through Larry Sanders and Curb.
“Larry Sanders and Curb your enthusiasm and all these different things we've had over the 30 years.”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:03:46 · Bill Simmons (0.95 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Writing (6) everyone in writing

writer, Deep Cover (The Rewatchables, ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan)
novelist and screenwriter, The Player (The Rewatchables, 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris)
writer-director, The Rapture (The Rewatchables, 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris)
writer-director, The New Age (The Rewatchables, 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris)
writer / creator, The Offer (Blank Check — Patreon, Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free))
writer of the best movie about working in Hollywood, from his own novel (title not said) (Blank Check — Patreon, Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free))

Directing (2) everyone in directing

writer-director (directing half), The Rapture (The Rewatchables, 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris)
writer-director (directing half), The New Age (The Rewatchables, 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris)

What was said about them, by kind

craft (1)

craft (craft): Robert Altman → Michael Tolkin. Altman changed Tolkin's screenplay and was unkind about it; the film's ending differs greatly from the book.
“And Altman was a little unkind about Tolkien's screenplay.”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:31:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.