Of Late Nights and High Detail: Michael Mann’s Heat (1995)

|Dan McCabe| When I was a college student, I worked at the front desk of my dorm. The shelf beneath the window stored a few hundred VHS tapes, which residents could rent by dropping off their university ID card. One rather uneventful night, I browsed… Continue reading

“That Means You Don’t Talk”: Michael Mann’s The Insider

Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe) records his whistleblowing interview for 60 Minutes in Michael Mann’s The Insider (1999).

|Steve Rybin| Four years separate Michael Mann’s crime drama Heat (1995) and his next movie, The Insider (1999).  While Heat’smonumental pairing of Al Pacino and Robert De Niro is considered by many to be the highlight of the director’s career, The Insider remains the Mann film… Continue reading