|Ryan Sanderson| Rorschach-like light patterns on large screens. Bodies gyrating rhythmically. Some dancers truly really feel the rhythm. Others just pump their fists and play along. I’m not great at reading crowds, but the ratio of pretenders to true believers doesn’t seem great… Continue reading
|Tim Schwagel| When I eagerly popped in my copy of Collateral to prepare for this article, I had a lot of potential topics rattling around in my head. I could ramble for days about the magic of films that take place over one night, the overt themes of not letting perfection get in the… Continue reading
|Dan McCabe| I first saw Collateral when it came out in theaters during late summer of 2004. A friend and I saw it on a whim after an evening round of golf. On the way to the multiplex, we passed a car driving at night with its lights off. The sun had set not long ago, so it’s quite possible the… Continue reading
|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
|Natalie Marlin| Hamlet is no more a play about a prince seeking revenge than it is about any of its other threads—nationalistic aristocratic decay, melancholic humors, loss inciting psychiatric madness. Patsies cast off to certain death, mere pawns in power plays. Blood begetting more blood, until it is entirely… Continue reading
|Jay Ditzer| Will Graham: I thought you might be curious to see if you’re smarter than the person I’m looking for. Dr. Hannibal Lecktor: Then by implication, you think you’re smarter than me since you caught me. Will Graham: I know that I’m not smarter than you. Dr. Hannibal… Continue reading
|Jackson Stern| “You owe me awe,” says the fictional serial killer at the darkened core of Manhunter. Lucky for him, the moviegoing public not only met his demand but put it on a pedestal. In the four decades since the film’s release, Michael Mann’s third theatrical feature has become the… Continue reading
|Sophie Durbin| “Frank unfolds his wallet to place the letter inside. A tattered paste-up collage is there, too. He opens it. There’s a white house from a magazine. A cut-out Cadillac is glued in front. Bits and pieces of trees are drawn in with green Pentel. A small baby from a Gerber food ad… Continue reading
|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
|Sophie Durbin| The Keep was a tough sell for me, a Michael Mann fan who fell in love with him through Heat and Thief—on my first watch, I was almost offended by the supernatural plot (I’m fine with the paranormal on film, but keep it out of my Michael Mann features). Of course… Continue reading
