The Michael Mann poll

McCauley lives!

I'm kind of inclined to listen to Heat 2 as an audiobook on long walks, just to experience the voices instead of sitting with it.

Also, did my annual-ish viewing of Miami Vice last night, and what stood out this time is the reflections of clouds on the water in a couple of scenes, especially the one on the first flight back that goes over...is that the Everglades?

Oh, I am waiting for that book.

shocked they didn't get it out in time for father's day tbh

preparing the "Great Ass!" collector's edition and they ran behind

Also, did my annual-ish viewing of Miami Vice last night, and what stood out this time is the reflections of clouds on the water in a couple of scenes, especially the one on the first flight back that goes over...is that the Everglades?

The sound on the Blu-Ray is astonishing. There were some explosions early on, when the Nazis murder the federal agent, that I swear lifted my couch off the floor. My wife came in from the next room, behind a closed door, to see what the fuck had just happened.

oh hell yeah, I haven't seen the cold open theatrical cut in years

doing this tonight, but with the theatrical cut

me at 19: i need to watch new film a day so i can build extensive film knowledge in every category
me at 25: every single night im gonna get drunk and watch the first 30 minutes of miami vice until i pass out

— robert franco, wandering ronin (@responsiblerob) June 2, 2022

The guy who plays the Nazi who says "pure, not that powdered shit you get in Nuyorico" is a local actor here. The week before the movie came out he was telling us he didn't know if he'd make the final cut.

uh plz tell me about the heat 2 novel?

June 17th HEAT will screen in 4K at Tribeca, preceded by a conversation with myself, Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro and Art Linson, moderated by Bilge Ebiri. The 4K remaster of the film on Ultra HD disc is out August 9th, same day my novel HEAT 2 written with Meg Gardiner hits shelves. pic.twitter.com/PM9TWU8Vj8

— Michael Mann (@MichaelMann) June 12, 2022

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— Michael Mann (@MichaelMann) January 19, 2022

omg
i just added this to my local library hold list :D

The 80s-ness of both Thief and Manhunter is kind of thrilling in retrospect

the serious demeanors of the characters, the overwrought phrases (“someone should blow this sick fuck out of his sox”), the clothes, idealized home life and sentimentalized home furnishings, the macho man obsession, music, lurid photography, and everything else about it feel like a kind of peak for that era of mainstream Hollywood in retrospect

(speaking of Manhunter)

although I hate In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida every time I encounter it

Loved hearing Shriekback and "This Big Hush" because of Manhunter. Though it also has the worst end-credits song ("Heartbeat").

I didn't hate that

Sometimes I,
Sometimes I,
Sometimes I understand it very clearly

those lyrics were kind of a summation of that movie

I sometimes wonder who had the better grasp of musical undercurrents in the '80s, Michael Mann or John Hughes.

But while Heat 2 is arriving as a book first, Mann tells Empire that he very much intends to make it for the big screen too.

“It’s totally planned to be a movie,” Mann says in a major new interview in the upcoming Avatar: The Way Of Water issue. He’s aware that a cinematic version would be one hell of an undertaking – and though he ventured into serialised territory with this year’s Tokyo Vice series, he doesn’t see Heat 2 as a small-screen proposition. “Is it a modest movie? No. Is it a very expensive series? No,” he says. “It’s going to be one large movie.”

There are just a few sticking points. For one, De Niro and Kilmer wouldn’t be able to reprise their roles (“I love those guys, but they’d have to be six years younger than they were in Heat”).

More work for Pattinson.

Please send it to me! I have an action is the juice tattoo please pic.twitter.com/0xQJw398Hs

— Dylan Ellis (@dylellis) July 7, 2022

Yawnsomely Literal Tattoos

also maybe wipe away the flecks of blood beforehand

Leaves me wondering how many Heat-related tattoos exist in the world. Mine would be of Tom Sizemore staring from the booth.

YES. one of my favorite subtle, lethal looks in movie history.

used to try and copy it on stage but couldn't pull it off.

I guess the advantage he has is that he's an IRL piece of shit, so he had that to draw on.

watched the first episode of luck last night. solid mann.

wtf, how have I overlooked that show? a David Milch series with the pilot directed by Mann? adding it to the list

they killed more horses than the customary zero while making it, which is not great tbf

They Kill Horses, Don't They?

Farina, Hoffman, Nolte, Richard Kind…good combo.

Tomorrow is @MichaelMann day on @WTFpod!

— marc maron (@marcmaron) July 17, 2022

:D

“So from what I got from reading the first half of the first chapter…”

so, who are his mans?

Good interview! Maybe the most interesting detail was that he and Mike Leigh were classmates at London Film School.

Long NY Times profile, in which he repeats much of what he says in the Maron interview.

When our entrees arrived, Mann did not like the look of his swordfish, which, cut into coiled ribbons, seemed more fancifully plated than he had been expecting: “This is swordfish? This isn’t swordfish. It’s swordfish? Let me have something else.” The waiter registered a quick, uncomprehending protest before shrugging and heading back to the kitchen with the dish and Mann’s untouched amuse-bouche.

I’m not clicking on this story, but ppl who do that are monsters. Eat the food you ordered fuckface.

Coiled swordfish sounds pretty monstrous.

The piece was very interesting. The Ferrari movie sounds...missable. And I have zero interest in the book.

The best part of the article, of course, is where the author tries to argue that the line "I'm a fiend for mojitos" was meant to be funny.

About 150 pages into Heat 2 and thoroughly enjoying it. As dense with tradecraft and philosophizing as you'd expect. Started reading one review of it (Washington Post) that spoiled the overall structure of it, so screw that.

Anyway:

Heat is one of the all time great gay American films pic.twitter.com/juWyAvxFCu

— Chris Fleming (@chrisfluming) August 12, 2022

I bought the book but haven’t cracked it yet.

Heat (1995) // My Dad Eating a Peach (2022) pic.twitter.com/GqNchqdgcI

— Will Martin (@mrwillmartin) August 23, 2022

homage is great flattery

2/3 of the way through the book and I feel comfortable saying that if you liked the movie you will like the book. I didn’t have high hopes but it’s good!

finished it last night. great book. does of course read like a screenplay. one completely uninteresting subplot, but otherwise fantastic. seems unfilmably long.