In the Screening Room with Michael Mann

The Letterboxd Show

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