The Michael Mann poll

the part of reality that makes for poor cinema is all the shrugging

spoken like a true leech

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what i love about MM is he directs the coolest, most composed movies in a lot of ways and then his meaningful scenes have a heavy dose of something like sevendust on the sndtrk. i actually do love that about him, no sarcasm.

I keep some Cornell on the iPod in case I ever come across a coyote crossing the street

whenever i'm driving my gunmetal blue four door charger, deep in a brood sesh after offing some mid-level heroin dealers who were pushing into my territory, i always get my lisa gerrard on

Who wouldn't?

I'm still annoyed that this didn't happen: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/may/27/michael-mann-go-like-hell - if anyone could surpass the look and feel of McQueen's Le Mans...

Go Like Hell is now apparently a Tom Cruise movie and the Oblivion guy is directing.

Trailer is terrible but I'll still watch this.

Late career Mann masterpiece:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6joglwxWuo

Hell, just because:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JJip8Wk0Ag

The pilot is the only ep he directed, right?

According to IMDB, the pilot was directed by Thomas Carter. Mann established the style, and executive produced all 111 episodes, though according to this avclub profile, he was really out of there after two years.

Long, long interview transcript:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/legendary-newsman-mike-wallace-detested-734792

Vadim Rizov commenting on the Stuart Murdoch musical on Letterboxd:

"I like this way too much for stupid personal factors — all the band chat was straight high school fare, I like the songs, everyone looks 'alluring' to say the least — but every day I have to wake up and read about how Michael Mann is a flawless Jesus, so I'm not feeling too apologetic..."

the world's tiniest synth is pulsing out a brooding score for vadim rizov and his tragic groundhog day-like dilemma

i'd take that over watching a "Miami Vice" ep or a spiffier "ooh look at the deep blacks" digital version of same.

maybe vadim should have thought twice before scrawling 'michael mann is a flawless jesus' on his bedroom ceiling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtJoN68ZCf8

Looks weirdly generic and the snippets of dialog sounds like boilerplate, but I have faith in Michael Mann.

A boiler-plate Michael Mann technothriller sounds pretty good actually.

I think that looks incredible, I'm getting a kind of miami vice 2006 vibe from some of it.

90% Miami Vice, 10% https://blogatkiwi.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/eng_the_net.jpg?w=300&h=279

http://hd-report.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/blackhat-chris-hemsworth-still1-600x255.jpg
http://public.media.smithsonianmag.com/legacy_blog/1995-pizza-dot-net-sm.jpg

Is that Jose Yero as Thor's FBI handler? I'M IN.

Yep!

idk this looks pretty dumm

this hemsworth dude with his generic good looks is the main turnoff for me. seriously, the hacker has to look like an abercrombie model?

most of us do *runs hand through hair*

with these mann flicks you've got to just embrace and accept the ridiculousness bc the good shit lies beyond it.

Brogrammer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xpfJEBU9BA

Interviews, etc.:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/30/blackhat-featurette_n_6395866.html

same as ^^

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bVH0bWdP3I

"Don't Call Him A Stylist...This Mustard-Yellow Wall Just Happened to Be There"

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-sneaks-michael-mann-20150111-story.html

Well, saw a screening of this tonight and, as usual, left humming the scenery and feeling like I'd vicariously just done and felt some very important things.

Solid flick.

Another interview:

Do you have any Starsky & Hutch memories?
I remember writing that there was a robbery, and a car jumped the curb and went through the window of a car dealership. And then they shot it. I said, "Wow, this is crazy. I write this stuff, and they go and do it." So then, of course, the ambition increased.

blackhat looks pretty bad, doesn't it? i might see it anyway.

Another interview:

quite amused that michael mann is being interviewed by "men's journal"

lede: "Michael Mann is a man."

his fanboys almost give dePalma's a run for their money

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i thought "public enemies" was pretty indefensible, but some mann-stans still repped for it. i don't have much hope for this one. the reviews from those not in the "converted" camp are pretty dire.

also what's with mann's cult seeming to grow and grow even when he stops making good movies? something similar happened to paul verhoeven.

actually i don't know if it's growing or just increasing in amplitude.

Well, if you are new to Mann, there is no decline, just a pile of cool films to watch in any order. But are any Mann newbies dipping into Mohicans or Ali or Insider, or just sticking with the crime thrillers?

i thought public enemies was pretty excellent and i really liked the final scene, the one between cotillard and lang.

big miami vice and collateral fan here too. i don't think he's really fallen off that much. i do think he's kind of zeroed in more on his own particular obsessions and moved away from making films as coherent as the insider and heat, but i think for mann that kinda works well.

I love Miami Vice and Collateral. Public Enemy was the first of his that did little for me (aside from its innate Mann-ness). But love him or not, from Ali on, he's been pretty divisive.

I can buy the Verhoeven comparison. There seem definite divisions between early period defenders vs. late period.

I'm not even sure many American (at least) Verhoeven folks are into his early (European) period. In his case we're talking middle period Verhoeven. Of course, there has been very little late period Verhoeven. Black Book and Hollow Man is about it for the past 20 years, and the latter is a POS with no fans.

Hollow Man is awesome

:)

Black Book felt like it was going to be the start of a new phase.