In the Screening Room with Michael Mann: 25 Films That Inspire Him & His Work

Legendary director Michael Mann (Heat, The Insider) sits down with Letterboxd at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica to talk about how some of his favorite films informed his movies, and the Michael Mann Archives — Directing Ferrari: https://boxd.it/67s

The Letterboxd list of every film mentioned in this interview: https://boxd.it/xmZZ2
Follow Michael Mann on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/michaelmann/

00:00 Introduction
00:14 Ferrari and the Michael Mann Archives
8:36 Turbo
9:57 Battleship Potemkin, Heat, and Last of the Mohicans
13:30 Apocalypse Now
15:13 The Conformist
16:00- From Here to Eternity and The Jericho Mile
17:31 The Hurt Locker
18:56 Dr. Strangelove and Heat
20:34 The Loved One
21:12 Poor Things
22:38 L’Atalante
23:35 The Sweet Smell of Success and The Insider
25:36 I Am Cuba and Ali
29:21 Raging Bull
30:17 Miami Vice, Heat, and the theatrical experience
31:59 Biutiful
33:03 Incendies
33:28 Pan’s Labyrinth
34:01 The Passion of Joan of Arc and The Insider
35:53 The Asphalt Jungle
37:53 Out of the Past
39:52 Memories of Murder, Manhunter, and serial killers
44:44 Pale Flower and Bicycle Thieves
46:03 Manhattan Melodrama and Public Enemies

Interview by Mia Lee Vicino
Produced by Brian Formo and Gemma Gracewood
Edited by Shannon Keirce
Cinematography by Corey Gegner
Lighting by Chris Bond
Sound by Eileen Ruiz
Color by Tayler Braasch
With thanks to ‪@AmericanCinematheque‬

#michaelmann #filmmaking #director #heat #americancinematheque