Michael Mann on the ‘savage beauty’ of ‘Ferrari’: ‘I wanted to put you in the driver’s seat’
1 year, 1 month ago

Michael Mann on the ‘savage beauty’ of ‘Ferrari’: ‘I wanted to put you in the driver’s seat’

LA Times  

Michael Mann is a filmmaker known for his exacting, obsessive attention to detail. “I really don’t see myself in Enzo,” says Mann, 80, during a recent video interview. “You can say you like the movie or not, but the story in this case is a real story — it’s really what happened,” says Ferrari. Adam Driver as Enzo Ferrari in the movie “Ferrari.” That sense of detailed authenticity is Mann’s stock-in-trade. Mann’s professional connection to Ferrari cars goes back to the original “Miami Vice” television show in the mid-1980s, on which he was an executive producer.

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Adam Driver stars as Enzo Ferrari in Michael Mann's biopic of legendary racing-car mogul
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Adam Driver stars as Enzo Ferrari in Michael Mann's biopic of legendary racing-car mogul

ABC  

Michael Mann has made a career from sleek, muscular portraits of masculinity in crisis. No wonder he's long been drawn to making a film about motor racing driver turned auto designer Enzo Ferrari — a man whose predilection for speed and success was tempered by a persistent sense of impending doom. Set in 1957, Ferrari finds its eponymous motor magnate …

Michael Mann still has another gear. At 80, he’s driving ‘Ferrari’
1 year ago

Michael Mann still has another gear. At 80, he’s driving ‘Ferrari’

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Michael Mann, who gave Crockett a white Ferrari on “Miami Vice,” pummeled cars with bullets in the shootout in “Heat” and set the thriller “Collateral” in a taxicab, has had an affection for automobiles since growing up in Chicago. It’s similar to him and the camera.” “Ferrari,” which opens in theaters Dec. 25, is Mann’s first film …

Review: Michael Mann’s ‘Ferrari,’ with a terrific Adam Driver, is a somber epic of doom and vroom
1 year ago

Review: Michael Mann’s ‘Ferrari,’ with a terrific Adam Driver, is a somber epic of doom and vroom

LA Times  

Amid the roaring motors and screeching tires of “Ferrari,” Michael Mann’s operatic saga of fast cars, furious women and the powerful human citadel who toyed with them all, a moment occasionally rises from the smoke with the grace and clarity of an aria. Although drawn from Brock Yates’ 1991 biography, “Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars, the Races, the Machine,” …

‘Ferrari’ trailer: Adam Driver’s Enzo Ferrari is pushed to his limits in Michael Mann’s biopic
1 year, 2 months ago

‘Ferrari’ trailer: Adam Driver’s Enzo Ferrari is pushed to his limits in Michael Mann’s biopic

The Hindu  

The trailer of Ferrari, a biographical drama on the life of race car supremo Enzo Ferrari, with Michael Mann returning to the director’s seat after eight years, was released by the makers on Thursday. The trailer weaves the 1957 race with the tumultuous personal life of Enzo — featuring his distressed and grieving wife Laura and his long-time mistress Lina …

Michael Mann movies: Hollywood machismo might be over, but at least one director still loves his anti-heroes
1 year, 4 months ago

Michael Mann movies: Hollywood machismo might be over, but at least one director still loves his anti-heroes

The Independent  

There is a cult of macho individualism that certain movie directors can’t seem to shrug off, whatever their age. “Open-road races had long been considered too dangerous by most civilised nations,” author Brock Yates wrote in his 1991 book, Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine, from which Mann’s movie is drawn. open image in gallery Adam Driver in Michael …

Adam Driver, Penelope Cruz Starrer Ferrari May Compete at the Venice Film Festival
1 year, 5 months ago

Adam Driver, Penelope Cruz Starrer Ferrari May Compete at the Venice Film Festival

News 18  

Actors Adam Driver and Penelope Cruz’s upcoming international film Ferrari may compete at the Venice Film Festival. It began in 1932 as a great propaganda vehicle for Italy’s Mussolini, Cannes began several years later in 1939, but three days into the Festival, Hitler’s forces invaded Poland. He decides to counter his losses by rolling the dice on one race — …

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