The Michael Mann poll

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.

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.

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

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.

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

ha yeah that is really instructive

especially about the part of acting thats like being interesting or being charistmatic

Was thinking that seemed weird for a tentpole guy.

― 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?

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.

ali was a remake of fresh prince of bel air but most people dont know

I don't think Jon Voight knew.

i meant public enemies duh

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.'

i just thought it was lifeless and pointless.

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

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.”

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.”

Something to look forward to. Frothing at the combination of "Michael Mann" and "Cyber-thriller"

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-michael-mann-chris-hemsworth-wang-leehom-cyber-blackhat-story.html%EF%BB%BF

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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cf. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michael-bay-attacked-transformers-4-649183

Hah I kinda wanted to start a thread about more and more blockbusters using HK as a setting

he must really be agonising over that one word title this time

oh wait, the tentative title is "Cyber"

lol

I've been listening to shit tons of TD lately, should really go on a Mann jag since I'm musically prepped and all

I actually recommend re-watching "Risky Business," which looks, sounds and plays like Mann directing a teen sex comedy. Set in Chicago, Tangerine Dream score, dreamy atmosphere/visuals, subversive economic commentary, etc. It's a really sharp film, and fits right in the Mann mold.

would totally rewatch RB, haven't seen it since it was new. Fucking amazing TD on that one, possibly their best score.

Totally agree with Josh, had the same thought when watching it a few years ago.

yeah risky business is awesome, booger's great in it

cyber is "blackhat"

trailer just screened at comiccon apparently

lol

I'd go to MannCon. Nice suits, Vertu phones, tradecraft demos from former Special Forces dudes.

Would be up for some Crime Story cosplay.

probably not a good idea to cosplay the keep

I want to be the preposterously not old enough Ian mckellen!

http://youtu.be/tKyuDgygvqc

not really feeling it

this is going to be popular with people who have black hats of a certain type

Such a 90s view of hacking

As long as there are some clouds in there, I'm happy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUF3MhPKhv4

this will hold you Less Than Meets the Eye fanboys til the Q____ T______ western is ready.

Agree trailer is underwhelming

Excited to see what Mann does with HK at night, such a claustrophobic city that I'm not sure he can make it work like LA

Like not surprising he turned his camera away from the busy island/Kowloon skyline and towards the "less" developed West Kowloon/Tsuen Wan area

this will hold you Less Than Meets the Eye fanboys til the Q____ T______ western is ready.

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius),

and this thread will serve as your chewtoy.

Also it looks like Mann chose Val Kilmer's son?

Trailer underwhelming, don't care gonna see anyway.

Trailer underwhelming, don't care gonna see anyway.

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 25 September 2014 23:30

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