In the Screening Room with Michael Mann

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

Links:

Michael Mann's Letterboxd Films talked about in this conversation Michael Mann’s list of his 14 favorite films Michael Mann Archives — Directing Ferrari Mia Lee Vicino’s Letterboxd Video version of this conversation on our YouTube channel

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