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Jul 2024
53m 41s

In the Screening Room with Michael Mann

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About this episode

Filmmaker Michael Mann joins Letterboxd in conversation about his favorite films, on the occasion of the launch of the Michael Mann Archives — Directing Ferrari.

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Credits:

  • The conversation was recorded by Eileen Ruiz and edited by Shannon Keirce.
  • Theme music: “Vampiros Danceoteque” by Moniker.
  • Producers: Brian Formo and Gemma Gracewood.
  • The Letterboxd Show is a TAPEDECK production.

Chapters:

  • (00:01:15) Ferrari and the Michael Mann Archives — Directing Ferrari⁠
  • (00:09:37) Turbo
  • (00:10:58) Battleship Potemkin, Heat, and Last of the Mohicans
  • (00:14:31) Apocalypse Now
  • (00:16:14) The Conformist
  • (00:17:01) From Here to Eternity and The Jericho Mile
  • (00:18:32) The Hurt Locker
  • (00:19:57) Dr. Strangelove and Heat
  • (00:21:35) The Loved One
  • (00:22:13) Poor Things
  • (00:23:39) L’Atalante
  • (00:24:36) The Sweet Smell of Success and The Insider
  • (00:26:37) I Am Cuba and Ali
  • (00:30:22) Raging Bull
  • (00:31:18) Miami Vice, Heat, and the theatrical experience
  • (00:33:00) Biutiful
  • (00:34:04) Incendies
  • (00:34:29) Pan’s Labyrinth
  • (00:35:02) The Passion of Joan of Arc and The Insider
  • (00:36:54) The Asphalt Jungle
  • (00:38:54) Out of the Past
  • (00:40:53) Memories of Murder, Manhunter, and serial killers
  • (00:45:45) Pale Flower and Bicycle Thieves
  • (00:46:57) Manhattan Melodrama and Public Enemies
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