I love Michael Mann interviews.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/11/12/michael-mann-david-frankham-talk-hbos-witness/
― cruel silver of hope (Eazy), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 22:48 (eleven years ago) link
That sounds incredible.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 23:25 (eleven years ago) link
otm
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 23:38 (eleven years ago) link
watched most of the first ep last night, it was p fascinating, had one v graphic intense raw scene, as you might expect
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
collateral has some boring dialogue scenes but the final 30 minutes or so are incredible
― J0rdan S., Monday, 10 December 2012 03:31 (eleven years ago) link
Well that's the inverse of pretty much every review at the time.
― Gukbe, Monday, 10 December 2012 03:32 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― johnny crunch, Monday, 24 June 2013 01:16 (ten years ago) link
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.
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 24 June 2013 01:25 (ten years ago) link
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, 30 July 2013 23:06 (ten years ago) link
Don't know how good a BoC/Chris Cornell collab would sound tbh
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 30 July 2013 23:07 (ten years ago) link
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
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 19:43 (ten years ago) link
lol who would vote for The Keep or Ali over thief
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 19:44 (ten years ago) link
Because it can never be posted enough:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfetsPmDWAk
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 19:54 (ten years ago) link
― 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
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 20:12 (ten years ago) link
Hopefully better than this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95-bc1DZovg
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 20:13 (ten years ago) link
Ooops, that's Japan. Sorry.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 20:14 (ten years ago) link
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, October 16, 2013 4:12 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 20:14 (ten years ago) link
Set to open one year and one week from today: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_(film)
― tbd (Eazy), Thursday, 9 January 2014 02:53 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 January 2014 14:26 (ten years ago) link
January release ;_;
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Thursday, 9 January 2014 16:49 (ten years ago) link
Was thinking that seemed weird for a tentpole guy.
― tbd (Eazy), Thursday, 9 January 2014 17:00 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQTn0psH_bM
― tbd (Eazy), Saturday, 11 January 2014 19:45 (ten years ago) link
To Be Cont'd doing a thing this month on Thief. http://tobecontd.com/thief-series/2014/1/9/thief-under-the-cover-of-darkness#.UtHzjGRDuet
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Sunday, 12 January 2014 01:45 (ten years ago) link
I haven't seen it in a number of years but I'm getting it on Tuesday so I'm not reading anything until I've rewatched it.
Oh, and The Keep is back up on Netflix Instant.
was it much-publicised that HEAT was a remake at the time? i don't recall. musta been a shock to anyone who didn't realise, if they'd seen the TV version.
― piscesx, Sunday, 12 January 2014 02:07 (ten years ago) link
I remember Heat coming out and wanting to see it, but I was also 12 so I don't really remember. I didn't find out about LA Takedown until years later. Still haven't seen it.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Sunday, 12 January 2014 03:22 (ten years ago) link
i dont know if it was a secret that it was a remake of LA Takedown, i just dont think anyone cared. but i cant see any mention of it in reviews from the period so im guessing it wasnt in the press kit at least
i watched LAT not long ago, it is pretty interesting b/c it really is just Heat but shorter and crappier. stuff like the coffeeshop scene really hammers home how badly you need great actors to make mann's dialogue not thud. there's some great shots and mann moments in it though
― Hungry4Ass, Sunday, 12 January 2014 04:54 (ten years ago) link
i think that scene above when watched next to the heat version is really useful as a compare and contrast between good acting and bad acting. those two guys are just hoping to get through the scene without flubbing a line, but deniro and pacino have a lot of subtle little looks and moments and inflections in their lines, plus they actually look the parts and bring some gravitas to the proceedings.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Sunday, 12 January 2014 06:58 (ten years ago) link
yeah totally. it doesn't matter how awesome a job everyone working on your movie is doing if your actors aren't showing up and kicking ass
― Hungry4Ass, Sunday, 12 January 2014 07:50 (ten years ago) link
ha yeah that is really instructive
― lag∞n, Sunday, 12 January 2014 16:24 (ten years ago) link
especially about the part of acting thats like being interesting or being charistmatic
― lag∞n, Sunday, 12 January 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link
― tbd (Eazy), Thursday, January 9, 2014 11:00 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
when has mann ever been a tentpole guy?
also when is my criterion thief blu-ray arriving, eh?
― ★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist), Monday, 13 January 2014 00:56 (ten years ago) link
mann's last movie was so dire that i'm not going to raise any hopes for this one.
Ali was, like, four movies ago.
― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Monday, 13 January 2014 02:47 (ten years ago) link
ali was a remake of fresh prince of bel air but most people dont know
― lag∞n, Monday, 13 January 2014 02:48 (ten years ago) link
I don't think Jon Voight knew.
― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Monday, 13 January 2014 04:54 (ten years ago) link
i meant public enemies duh
― ★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist), Monday, 13 January 2014 05:39 (ten years ago) link
public enemies was pretty good i thought but such a weird movie in retrospect. it was like a mix of 'dillinger' and beatty's version of 'dick tracy.'
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 13 January 2014 05:42 (ten years ago) link
i just thought it was lifeless and pointless.
― ★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist), Monday, 13 January 2014 09:43 (ten years ago) link
New interview:http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/interview-michael-mann-talks-making-thief-the-importance-of-authenticity-whats-coming-in-his-next-film-20140206?page=1#blogPostHeaderPanel
― That's So (Eazy), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 04:49 (ten years ago) link
And for viewers, the pulsating sound of that world comes from Tangerine Dream’s expressive score. It’s so much a part of the texture of “Thief,” it’s hard to imagine the film without it, but as Mann revealed, he initially had other ideas about the soundtrack before explaining why he settled on the progressive rockers.
“My normal instinctive choice for music would have been Chicago Blues. That's really the music that as a teenager, I first fell I love with. So my first instinct was Chicago Blues, however I felt that what the film was saying, thematically, and the facility with which the film might be able to have resonance with audience,” he said. “I felt that to be so regionally specific in the music choice would make Frank's experience specific only to Frank...So I wanted the kind of transparency, if you like, the formality of electronic music, and hence Tangerine Dream.”
― That's So (Eazy), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 15:25 (ten years ago) link
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/first-official-image-from-michael-manns-cyber-thriller-starring-chris-hemsworth-20140604
“With great facility the people in the film move between Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Los Angeles and Chicago. And the film’s story takes you from those places to inside a processor, inside the electron universe, amongst a population of transistors," he explained. "You have two billion transistors in your cell phone. Bits with either an absence or surplus of electrons, then become ones or zeroes, every two billionth of a second and affect the macro, our lives. That's the world this film takes place in.”
― heavy on their trademark ballads (Eazy), Sunday, 22 June 2014 17:47 (nine years ago) link
Something to look forward to. Frothing at the combination of "Michael Mann" and "Cyber-thriller"
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Monday, 23 June 2014 12:35 (nine years ago) link
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-michael-mann-chris-hemsworth-wang-leehom-cyber-blackhat-story.html%EF%BB%BF
― caek, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 14:10 (nine years ago) link
Mann said Hong Kong was an amazing yet challenging place to shoot. He joked that he didn’t have any problems a la “Transformers” director Michael Bay, who notoriously had an air conditioner thrown at him by a local who was unhappy with the production’s presence in his neighborhood.
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― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 15:43 (nine years ago) link
cf. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michael-bay-attacked-transformers-4-649183
― heavy on their trademark ballads (Eazy), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 16:00 (nine years ago) link
Hah I kinda wanted to start a thread about more and more blockbusters using HK as a setting
― 龜, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 16:06 (nine years ago) link
he must really be agonising over that one word title this time
― Number None, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 16:20 (nine years ago) link