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