The Michael Mann poll

It also delves into the drug-cartel world that has more visibly taken over Mexican daily life since its release.

just thinking abt the scene in the diner in Thief where james caan has his perfect little fantasy collage makes me cringe

i do like how brutal the ending is tho

thread making me totes curious abt watching silence again. i guess i loved it when i saw it but its sortof bloated in my memory via hannibal lecter as cartoon villain. like im willing to fall in love all over. manhunter is super creepy and i like the unconventional way its claustrophobic, like i remember these excruciating scenes like joan allen w the tiger where the whole thing is shot w ultrafluorescent ugly striplight brightness

last of the mohicans disappointed the shit out of me but i think i was like eight

i think the mann i have like most has a kindof exhilarating ugliness

i like hopkins' lecter but he is a pantomime villain. cox has an air of contempt that is authentically medical

Red dragon is closer to the source novel but anybody who prefers it to Manhunter can eat poop-flavored Cheerios

Michael Mann in Talks to Develop and Direct Fox Film About 1967 Le Mans

(in short. DO WANT)

The project is based on A.J. Baime’s book "Go Like Hell," which revolves around how the Ford Co. became the first American car maker to win the famous European car race over Ferrari.

Michael Mann is in talks with 20th Century Fox to develop and potentially direct Go Like Hell, the real-life story of the famous competition between the Ford Motor Co. and Ferrari that led to Ford winning the Le Mans in 1967.

Ford was the first American car maker to win the world’s oldest car race, held in France. For years, Ferrari had dominated the contest.

Based on A.J. Baime’s book, the Fox project recounts how a young Henry Ford II — determined to infuse new life into his family’s company — decided to get into the European racing scene.

With the help of racer Carroll Shelby and Lee Iacocca, Ford built and designed a car that could take on Ferrari cars, known for their speed and style. They ultimately won the Le Mans, the world’s oldest car race that takes place each year in France.

Insiders say the initial idea is for Mann to develop the script.

What Michael Mann can do with sports:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55BZ2gSsSmY

The Insider hardly made any impression on me when I saw it first time around, and many years later I still find it very pedestrian. I will say that Pacino's performance has fewer histrionics--none, really--than anything he's done since the '70s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNKmmA6_oTQ

ali still so underrtaed

Very odd to read this for the first time now - the poll results are up first, and I think "Oh well, it's ILX, they were always going to be on Heat's dick", but there's nearly no-one repping for it at the time!

the insider, I don't understand how could anyone say this movie is pedestrian. not a single bad performance, best story, actual things at stake from the real world as opposed to the (...) all style comic book material in heat collateral and miami vice. also, whoever said the slo-mo was bad is crazy, the final scene is one of the most outstanding things I have ever seen, a beautiful philip-lorca dicorcia picture set to motion. it doesn't get much better than this!

This poll didn't get all that many votes imo.

Very odd to read this for the first time now - the poll results are up first, and I think "Oh well, it's ILX, they were always going to be on Heat's dick", but there's nearly no-one repping for it at the time!

Think people just got tired of talking about it even if that's the one they voted for.

yeah, i think everyone feels like Heat's a given

ali still so underrtaed

― J0rdan S., Sunday, September 16, 2012 3:42 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the main problem with this film is it stars will smith as muhammad ali, besides that its p sick

ali isn't very good.

i like when him and frazier ride around in a car together

there's some things to like about it... the opening set to live at harlem club vers of bring it on home to me, so killer. ali walking out into the stadium in zaire. cool mix of video and film. ted levine outta nowhere. but it has the same basic problem as public enemies... neither film has anything interesting to say about ali or dillinger as men

ya theres a maybe purposeful distance operating, tho tbf i dont really remember ali that well

Seem to recall the director's cut of Ali being much better. Also, was Mann's first experiment with shooting digital, for the jogging/training sequence.

Really shocked that nobody voted for Thief. That movie is so fucking pure. Even Jim Belushi couldn't wreck it. But I'm also surprised Collateral came in second.

SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER

If Collateral had ended the instant Jamie Foxx flipped the cab over - just cab flip, crunching noise, credits roll on a black screen - that movie would have fucking ruled. But the actual ending was lame and trite.

ya i think everyone agrees that the end of collateral was dumb

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/10/22/last-of-the-mohicans-director-michael-mann-remembers-russell-means/

what the fuck, when did russell means die

I love Michael Mann interviews.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/11/12/michael-mann-david-frankham-talk-hbos-witness/

That sounds incredible.

otm

watched most of the first ep last night, it was p fascinating, had one v graphic intense raw scene, as you might expect

collateral has some boring dialogue scenes but the final 30 minutes or so are incredible

Well that's the inverse of pretty much every review at the time.

james caan

AVC: Thief was Michael Mann’s first film.
JC: Yeah, I found Michael Mann. Literally. I was doing Chapter Two, and this guy was sitting outside my trailer in a wooden chair, and he said, “Can I talk to you?” I said, “Yeah.” And he said, “I wanted to show you a script I’ve written.” And at the time, I was very fortunate that I was able to do whatever the hell I wanted to do, so I put it together right away. I got Jerry Bruckheimer to produce it… along with my brother, Ronnie, which was hysterical. And Michael, he’s a workaholic, you know. I still think that’s his best picture. He brought in the forensic stuff and everything. It was a real tough picture to work on, though, because he’d work 16, 17 hours a day. I liked it, though. It was a good movie.

that interview's hilarious

Alien Nation (1988)—“Det. Sgt. Matthew Sykes”

JC: Why the fuck… Why would you bring up that?

AVC: A lot of people actually like the film. I do, for one.

JC: Yeah, well, I don’t know.

IMDB page for Cyber is up: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2717822/

Computer hacking is usually portrayed so ridiculously in movies that it's difficult to not reflexively shrug. Still, a straight-up Michael Mann crime thriller in China sounds pretty great. Please do not suck. Also, please hire Boards Of Canada to do the soundtrack.

Don't know how good a BoC/Chris Cornell collab would sound tbh

Maybe it won't get scratch on the re-poll?

http://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/release_boxshots/4191-560cd65f1ec2a91f6e3ffccb67d6d7eb/691_box_348x490_DF_original.jpg

lol who would vote for The Keep or Ali over thief

Because it can never be posted enough:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfetsPmDWAk

IMDB page for Cyber is up: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2717822/

Computer hacking is usually portrayed so ridiculously in movies that it's difficult to not reflexively shrug. Still, a straight-up Michael Mann crime thriller in China sounds pretty great. Please do not suck. Also, please hire Boards Of Canada to do the soundtrack.

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, July 30, 2013 7:06 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark

my main expectation of this is that mann shooting hong kong is going to look amazing

Hopefully better than this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95-bc1DZovg

Ooops, that's Japan. Sorry.

my main expectation of this is that mann shooting hong kong is going to look amazing

― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, October 16, 2013 4:12 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

otm

Set to open one year and one week from today:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_(film)

That'll give it plenty of time to go over budget, run into some natural disasters, encounter unforeseen delays and then get mangled in the editing suite.

January release ;_;

Was thinking that seemed weird for a tentpole guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQTn0psH_bM