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| Michael
Mann |
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| Director
/ Screenwriter / Producer |
| 1943 - |
| Born February 5,
Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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Production Country: USA |
| Key Genres:
Crime Thriller,
Thriller, Crime |
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Collaborators: Dov Hoenig
(Editor), Dante
Spinotti (Cinematographer), William Goldenberg (Editor), Jamie Foxx
(Leading Player), Paul Rubell (Editor), Bruce McGill (Character Player), Al Pacino (Leading Player),
Jon Voight (Leading Player), Pieter Jan Brugge (Producer), Eric
Roth (Screenwriter) |
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Highly Recommended: Heat
(1995), The
Insider (1999) |
| Recommended: Manhunter
(1986), The Last of the Mohicans (1992) |
| Links: [
IMDB ] [
TCMDB ] [ All-Movie
Guide ] [ Senses
of Cinema: Great Directors ] [
Film Reference ]
[ Salon
Feature ] [ Filmbug
Biography ] [
LA Weekly Interview (2006) ] [
Observer Article (2006) ]
[
Cinema Blend Interview (2006) ]
[
BBC
Article (2004) ] [
NNDB ] |
| Books: [
Michael
Mann (Pocket Essentials) ] [
Michael Mann ] [
Blood in the Moonlight: Michael Mann and Information Age Cinema ] |
| DVD's:
[ Amazon
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1,000 Greatest Films: Heat
(1995) |
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21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films:
Ali (2001), Collateral (2004) |
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"Although
Michael Mann's film output is small in comparison to his work
for television (as writer, director and producer), so strong has
been his influence on recent styles in both media that, provided
his film career escapes the marketing problems that have
blighted it so far, future recognition of his importance seems
assured." - Geoff
Andrew (The Film Handbook, 1989) |
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"Like
contemporaries Tony Scott and
Adrian Lyne, Michael Mann is a
visual stylist with a penchant for modernist design. But while
Scott and
Lyne seem content to admire their reflections on the
gleaming surface they create, Mann reveals himself as an
old-fashioned existentialist, expressing an obsessive male
social alienation in neo-noir thrillers like Thief
(1981), Manhunter (1986), and his masterpiece, Heat
(1995)." -
Ronald Bergan (Film - Eyewitness Companions, 2006) |
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"He
wrote scripts for television series including Starsky and
Hutch and Vega$ before making his debut as a feature
film director with Thief (1981). He has brought a strong
visual flair to a number of stylish, moody thrillers, as well as
to the acclaimed literary adaptation Last of the Mohicans
(1992) and the biopic Ali (2001)." -
(Chambers Film Factfinder, 2006) |
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"Could
I have worked under a system where there were Draconian controls
on my creativity, meaning budget, time, script choices, etc.?
Definitely not. I would have fared poorly under the old studio
system that guys like Howard Hawks did so well in. I cannot just
make a film and walk away from it. I need that creative
intimacy, and quite frankly, the control to execute my visions,
on all my projects." -
Michael Mann |
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