Articles tagged "michael mann"

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Michael Mann explores the legendary dark sides of home

by Michael Phillips [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[6.Jul.09] :. CHICAGO — Michael Mann, the son of Jack and Esther Mann and the director and co-writer of “Public Enemies,” grew up all around Chicago. At 66, his voice retains remnants of the...

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Film Review

Miami Vice (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Jul.06] :. Gong Li's face and form are made for this: she absorbs the movie's energies and just like that, it hardly matters what Crockett or Tubbs thinks he's doing.

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Film Review

Collateral (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Aug.04] :. Michael Mann's new film shows what anyone who's paid attention to Jamie Foxx has known for some time: he is excellent.

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Ali: The Director’s Cut (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Jun.04] :. The bravest thing Ali does is to gesture toward, wonder at, and celebrate Muhammad Ali, and then let go of him.

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TV Review

Robbery Homicide Division

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Oct.02] :. You have to hand it to 'Robbery Homicide Division'. It knows just where it comes from.

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Ali (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Dec.01] :. Ali embodies a kind of car-wreck charisma -- arrogant and self-conscious, beautiful and fierce, even on twenty-year-old tape, he can take your breath away. This ability to mesmerize makes Ali who he is, or more accurately, who everyone wants him to be. He's a cipher and a screen onto which viewers might project themselves.

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The Insider (1999)

by Jonathan Beller

Michael Mann's film The Insider is about blowing the lid of conspiracy off the tobacco industry. Although the film is ostensibly about one corporate produced addictive narcotic, that is nicotine, it is really about two, the other one being capital.