The Michael Mann poll

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

http://i.imgur.com/ioTiGdF.gif

"We're not going to beat him from the outside."

"No..."

"It's OK. I know what I'm doing."

https://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9elseiik31qdc388o1_500.gif

is there some Moby in this or what

The tron light bike POV shot of the internet's circuits short-circuiting... I mean really.

Who wrote this? Morgan Davis Foehl? Looks like a relative newbie/hack getting some Hollywood traction. Anyway, even the closest Mann's come to failures have been compelling, and given how much he enjoys depicting intelligence on screen as much as gun fights, I'm totally on board for another movie about smart people with guns.

Looks so bad.

Bet it'll be good, much better than the trailer produced by Legendary's marketing department.

but no the trailer is the film iirc

morbius what michael mann is good, i never really got it. i kinda liked thief.

*don't ask Morbs*

Thief is one I can't rewatch.

he got better at commissioning dopey electronic scores and putting Strong Man and Supporting Woman in more dialectical and interesting compositional ways later.

diner scene pretty stellar though

I still haven't seen Thief. I liked Last of the Mohicans and, with reservations, Heat. Manhunter was OK.

hey thank you. haven't seen last of the mohicans. & manhunter is kinda ehh to me. i am always just so bemused by the superlatives about his artistry & colour; can anyone rep for demonstrations of this in action, beyond like taxicab-night-photography in collateral?

actually p down with tangerine dream in thief, btw, alfred, & found james caan a pretty singular Strong Man portrait.

Great: Manhunter, Miami Vice
Reasonably OK: Collateral, Public Enemies, The Insider
Not a fan: Mohicans, Ali

I'm down with LOFM.