Dante Spinotti

The Greater the Truth, the Greater the Damage: ‘The Insider,’ Michael Mann’s White-Collar Thrill Ride of Corporate Malfeasance

    By Tim Pelan   Few filmmakers can take a whistle-blowing dramatization of real life potentially dusty legal shenanigans…

3 years ago

‘Heat’ at 27: Michael Mann’s Meticulous Masterpiece of Both Style and Substance That Transcends Genre

Heat poster art by Tony Stella, https://www.tony-stella.com/   By Koraljka Suton   A guy told me one time, “Don't let…

4 years ago

Noir Cut to Look of the Period, Not About the Period: The Sunny, Seedy ’50’s Underbelly of Curtis Hanson’s ‘L.A. Confidential’

L.A. Confidential poster art by Vlad Rodriguez   By Tim Pelan   I came to it because of Ellroy. When…

5 years ago

‘Horror Implied, as Opposed to Explained… That’s Michael Mann’s Strength (Will)’—‘Manhunter’

Manhunter poster by Thomas Walker   By Tim Pelan   In 1986, Michael Mann’s Manhunter elevated schlock-horror to a thoughtful,…

6 years ago

‘The Last of the Mohicans’: Michael Mann’s Riveting Love Story as the Formation of American Identity

  By Sven Mikulec   After a string of successes on television, having made a name for himself on projects…

6 years ago

Michael Mann’s ‘Heat’: A Complex, Stylistically Supreme Candidate for One of the Most Impressive Films of the Nineties

  By Sven Mikulec Michael Mann's crime thriller Heat was a project whose development path started all the way back…

8 years ago