Articles for Michael Mann

‘I know how dramatic it was in real life’: Michael Mann chats about ‘The Insider’
2 weeks, 5 days ago

‘I know how dramatic it was in real life’: Michael Mann chats about ‘The Insider’

LA Times  

Michael Mann, left, and LAFCA’s Justin Chang in a conversation between screenings of “The Insider” and “Heat” at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. Filmmaker Michael Mann was present for a Q&A moderated by former Times film critic Justin Chang in between a 35mm presentation of Mann’s 1999 “The Insider” and a 4K restoration of his 1995 “Heat.” Though “Heat,” the …

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The timely relevance of Michael Mann’s ‘The Insider,’ plus the week’s best movies in L.A.
3 weeks, 4 days ago

The timely relevance of Michael Mann’s ‘The Insider,’ plus the week’s best movies in L.A.

LA Times  

Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. It’s pretty stressful, I will say.” Michael Mann’s ‘The Insider’ and ‘Heat’ Diane Venora, left, and Al Pacino in the movie “Heat.” The Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. … When you’re on top of a tall building in L.A. at 11 o’clock or midnight …

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The many sides of Gena Rowlands, plus the week’s best movies in L.A.
3 months, 3 weeks ago

The many sides of Gena Rowlands, plus the week’s best movies in L.A.

LA Times  

Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. On Saturday at the Egyptian, there will be a screening of John Cassavetes’ 1980 “Gloria,” which subverts many tropes of the gangster film as Rowlands plays a woman forced to protect a young boy. But it happened in 1964.” Points of interest ‘Heathers’ Shannen …

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Exclusive: Michael Mann unveils his in-depth, behind-the-scenes Archives project
5 months, 1 week ago

Exclusive: Michael Mann unveils his in-depth, behind-the-scenes Archives project

LA Times  

Filmmaker Michael Mann is known for his exacting research and exhaustive preparation, work that goes into such moody, existential portraits as “Heat,” “The Insider,” “Ali,” “Miami Vice,” “Blackhat” and the recent “Ferrari.” Mann is now giving audiences an unprecedented glimpse into his artistic process via the website michaelmannarchives.com. Launching today at noon Pacific time, the website kicks off with a …

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Jury to decide on climate scientist Michael Mann’s defamation suit over comparison to molester
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Jury to decide on climate scientist Michael Mann’s defamation suit over comparison to molester

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — It’s been 12 years since a pair of conservative writers compared a prominent climate scientist to a convicted child molester for his depiction of global warming. It was included in a report by a United Nations climate panel in 2001, and a version of it was featured in Al Gore’s Oscar-winning 2006 climate change documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.” …

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Adam Driver’s performance in Ferrari is his best ever.
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Adam Driver’s performance in Ferrari is his best ever.

Slate  

In Slate’s annual Movie Club, film critic Dana Stevens emails with fellow critics—for 2023, Bilge Ebiri, Esther Zuckerman, and Mark Harris—about the year in cinema. This line between authenticity and realism is something I’ve thought a lot about this year, particularly in regard to Adam Driver’s starring turn in Michael Mann’s Ferrari, which I think is the best performance Driver …

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Ferrari movie: How did this Oscar hopeful end up using a line from Walk Hard?
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Ferrari movie: How did this Oscar hopeful end up using a line from Walk Hard?

Slate  

In Slate’s annual Movie Club, film critic Dana Stevens emails with fellow critics—for 2023, Bilge Ebiri, Esther Zuckerman, and Mark Harris—about the year in cinema. In the days before the 2007 release of Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, you could get away with a lot of clichés in a biopic, and mostly viewers like me would shake our heads …

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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 …

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‘You are the film, the film is you’: How six directors define what they do
1 year ago

‘You are the film, the film is you’: How six directors define what they do

LA Times  

Have you heard the one where Bradley Cooper does impressions of both Clint Eastwood and Sienna Miller? VIDEO | 05:37 Directors Roundtable: Bradley Cooper, Michael Mann, Alexander Payne and more The Envelope’s Directors Roundtable welcomes directors Blitz Bazawule, Bradley Cooper, Michael Mann, Alexander Payne, Justine Triet and Celine Song. Bradley Cooper directed “Maestro.” Bradley, with “A Star is Born” and …

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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 …

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Ferrari film is stuck in the slow lane
1 year, 3 months ago

Ferrari film is stuck in the slow lane

BBC  

Ferrari review: Adam Driver's latest is 'stuck in the slow lane' Eros Hoagland Despite being a handsome period drama filled with witty black humour, Michael Mann's Ferrari "pootles along", writes Nicholas Barber from the Venice Film Festival. Adam Driver played an Italian industrialist with a resentful wife in House of Gucci as recently as 2021, but he does the same …

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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 …

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Keeping It Reel in 2023: 99 Films To Add to Your Watchlist for This Year
1 year, 10 months ago

Keeping It Reel in 2023: 99 Films To Add to Your Watchlist for This Year

News 18  

Good cinema is always around the corner. The Russian director’s next film is set in America and will be his first English language feature. Rose Glass’ Love Lies Bleeding The English film director follows her acclaimed psychological horror debut Saint Maud with a romantic thriller starring Kristen Stewart alongside Jena Malone, Dave Franco, and Ed Harris. Duke Johnson’s The Actor …

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James Caan 'suffered a heart attack and artery disease in hospital'
2 years, 5 months ago

James Caan 'suffered a heart attack and artery disease in hospital'

Daily Mail  

Hollywood icon James Caan tragically passed away at the age of 82 on July 6. Costars: Barbra Streisand — who starred in 1975's Funny Lady as Fanny Brice, while Caan played her husband Billy Rose — spoke warmly of her costar in a tribute tweet Old pals: 'Jimmy was someone who stretched through my life longer and closer than any …

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Heat co-stars Robert De Niro and Al Pacino reunite for special screening during Tribeca Festival
2 years, 6 months ago

Heat co-stars Robert De Niro and Al Pacino reunite for special screening during Tribeca Festival

Daily Mail  

The Tribeca Festival, which opened on June 8, is winding down its last few days before wrapping up on Sunday, June 19. Retrospective Screening: Robert De Niro, 78, and Al Pacino, 82, hit the red carpet ahead of a special screening and conversation about their acclaimed film Heat at the Tribeca Festival in New York City on Friday The two …

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Cocaine, cars and Crockett ‘n’ Tubbs: Did we always underestimate Miami Vice?
2 years, 7 months ago

Cocaine, cars and Crockett ‘n’ Tubbs: Did we always underestimate Miami Vice?

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. When Miami Vice debuted in 1984, the show lived up to its initial pitch with …

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Penelope Cruz, Adam Driver, and Shailene Woodley rev up for Michael Mann's Enzo Ferrari biopic
2 years, 10 months ago

Penelope Cruz, Adam Driver, and Shailene Woodley rev up for Michael Mann's Enzo Ferrari biopic

Daily Mail  

Penelope Cruz and Adam Driver are hoping their latest high-octane project will land them in the Oscars race. Scroll down for video Vroom vroom: Penelope Cruz will be starring as real-life married couple Laura Ferrari in an upcoming biopic Leading man: Adam Driver will be thrust into the titular role of Enzo Ferrari Ferrari is a passion project from Heat …

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