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I should really let Matt Zoller Seitz’s words speak for themselves in his ongoing five-part series of video essays concerning director Michael Mann at the Museum of the Moving Image, (“Zen Pulp: The World of Michael Mann”), but I’m a sucker for this stuff. Part one (posted July 1), which you can check out below, [...]
Zen pulp
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:02 pm · July 10th, 2009
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THE LISTS: Top 10 performances from Michael Mann films
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:24 am · June 30th, 2009
With the forthcoming release of Michael Mann’s “Public Enemies” (review) dominating — quite impressively, I might add — the publicity circuit this week, all eyes are on Johnny Depp. An Ulmer Scale X factor for this character study posing as a summer blockbuster, Depp’s performance is sure to draw champions and detractors alike for its [...]
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Respectfully disagree
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:11 pm · June 28th, 2009
F.X. Feeney, whose Taschen study on the films of Michael Mann is must reading for fans of the director, has gone on the record with Jeffrey Wells as believing the female characters from Mann’s films to be “deeply observed, self-reliant and fully dimensional.” The comment follows an earlier Wells posting concerning Marion Cotillard’s strong performance [...]
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REVIEW: “Public Enemies” (***1/2)
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:00 pm · June 23rd, 2009
Los Angeles Film Festival There is a moment very early in Michael Mann’s “Public Enemies,” featured today as the centerpiece exhibition of the Los Angeles Film Festival, when Depression-era criminal John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) stares into the dying eyes of friend and mentor Walter Dietrich (James Russo) as his band of cohorts flees the scene [...]
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Mann and music
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 6:19 pm · April 9th, 2009
I interviewed Michael Mann on Halloween night back in 2006. Tons of traffic. And there was a Lakers game, so getting back from the West side was a pain. The sit-down was part of a larger piece I was writing for The New York Times on Mann’s friend and colleague, screenwriter Eric Roth. It was [...]
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THE LISTS: Top 20 movie endings of all time
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:56 am · July 14th, 2008
Alright, this was painstaking indeed. After The Times of London saw fit to rock out a list of the 20 best movie endings of all time last week, I thought I’d try my own hand at such a collective. There are some omissions that might surprise some folks (“Bonnie and Clyde,” “The Graduate,” “Carrie”). At [...]
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What are the best movie endings of all time?
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:01 am · July 10th, 2008
I was working on this piece yesterday (nothing major — just pulling together the YouTube clips), but I wasn’t aware how the list was going to pan out. “Carrie” at the top? Not so sure about that. But The Times critics like to be contrarian. Just take a look at their Top 100 Films of [...]
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Goldenthal to score Mann’s ‘Enemies’
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:38 pm · June 30th, 2008
Exciting news. This is without a doubt my most anticipated film of next year. The press release, in part, on Goldenthal jumping on board: Oscar-winning composer Elliot Goldenthal (Frida) has been signed to score Universal Pictures’ action-thriller from acclaimed filmmaker Michael Mann, Public Enemies. Currently shooting in Chicago, Public Enemies stars Johnny Depp and Christian [...]
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Where have you gone, Al Pacino?
Posted by John Foote · 3:52 pm · May 24th, 2008
It has been more than 30 years since Al Pacino gave his career-defining performance as cold blooded Michael Corleone in “The Godfather Part II.” He radiated quiet danger the moment he appeared on screen without ever raising his voice or allowing his mouth to wrap its way around words and spit them out like venom. [...]
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