The Greater the Truth, the Greater the Damage: ‘The Insider’, Michael Mann’s White-Collar Thrill Ride of Corporate Malfeasance
By Tim Pelan You pay me to go get guys like Wigand, to draw him out. To get him to trust us, to get…
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Sidney Lumet’s ‘Serpico’: One Honest Man’s Struggle Against the System
The legend has it, when Al Pacino asked Frank Serpico why he had blown the whistle on New York police corruption, Serpico replied, “If I…
Michael Mann’s ‘Heat’: A Complex, Stylistically Supreme Candidate for One of the Most Impressive Films of the Nineties
Michael Mann’s crime thriller Heat was a project whose development path started all the way back in 1979, but when it finally hit theaters in…
‘The Godfather’: A Historical Curiosity that Proved Instrumental for Our Filmmaking Education and Appreciation
It really is to no surprise that Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather has managed to transcend the material plane and all those ‘movies you should…
Sidney Lumet’s ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ is most likely the one film in the director’s rich career that stayed with us the most
It was 12 Angry Men that initially attracted us to the great American filmmaker and storyteller Sidney Lumet, but his 1975 mixture of drama, thriller…
Michael Mann’s ‘The Insider’ unflinchingly stands as significant as ever
Rarely have we seen such an important film as Michael Mann’s The Insider. The story of Jeffrey Wigand, a whistle-blower in the tobacco industry, is…