Archive for April 13th, 2006

What is Mann Directing Next?

I thought we'd just take a little look at what's in the pipeline for the mann of the hour. I'll try to get through it with as few puns as possible.
Arms and the ManA Project that has been in the pipeline since before Miami Vice was announced, based around the true story of  the world's [...]

Double-tap to the Chest, Killshot.

This clip needs no explanation.

Collateral and Cinematography for Nerds.

One of my favourite sites to dig through when i’m bored is American Cinematographer, A heavily nerdy magazine, talking about lenses, f.stops and depths of field. Their website archives all their back issues (from 1998 to the present) check it out here There’s a beuatiful article about shooting collateral and everything they had to deal [...]

The Greatest Running Gun Battle EVER.

If you haven’t seen ‘Heat’ you’re an idiot. Go and buy it now. Andy ‘Bravo to Zero’ McNabb was a combat consultant on the set, trained everyone involved in the gun battle in the use of ‘power weapons’ hence Deniro and Kilmer are totally badass shots.
Then there’s the fact that in order to make the [...]

Miami Vice, Cinematography Osmosis

I was sent this the other day by 'Gunrunner' in an email, for no other reason than he liked the way it looked. He got a little bit excited in the man-pants department, took a whole bunch of screenshots from the trailer and mashed them all into one big image. It's a beautiful nerdy thing [...]

‘Miami Vice’ Reviews Surface

I read an early review of Michael Mann's 'Miami Vice' over on movietack, and am starting to get pretty excited about it, by the sounds of it this early cut has some pacing issues, and there's a lot of stuff missing (some C.G, music, credits etc) but nothing that can't be sorted out before it [...]

‘Michael Mann Day’ on Solace in Cinema.

That’s right, today is officially Michael Mann day on Solace in Cinema, today we’ll take a look at the Mann himself and many of the great movies hes’ produced. One of the strongest directors working in hollywood today, has shown the world how to direct a gunfight, how to make Will Smith breakout of [...]