STXfilms Takes Worldwide Rights With May Start for Biopic Academy Award-nominee Michael Mann (Collateral, Public Enemies, Heat) has cast Academy Award nominee Adam Driver (Marriage Story, Star Wars)
Adam Solomons
, April 30th, 2021 08:40
Released 40 years ago this year, Michael Mann s debut Thief offered a prototype for the neo-noir action thriller about the American city – and it remains one of the best first features ever, finds Adam Solomons
In her essay for the Criterion release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s
Punch-Drunk Love, writer and director Miranda July observed that a crucial aspect of the film’s atmosphere lies in its depiction of the world’s inherent scariness. “Anderson does such a good job of describing that perpetually alarmed feeling – the trucks literally roar by like
Jurassic Park dinosaurs; the warehouse door rolls up and down, blinding and blackening like the wrath of God”, she wrote. “Life really is terrifying.”
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Michael Mann’s genre-bending crime story was ignored at the Oscars but its reputation has since grown into a thriller for the ages
When
Heat came out on Boxing Day in 1995, it already carried some fairly hefty hype and heat of its own.
For starters, the relentless bank heist scene, filmed on 5
th street in downtown Los Angeles, was going viral as a cinematic event in itself, largely thanks to a quirky pre-internet communication channel known as word of mouth.