By A few weeks ago, legendary “Heat” and “The Insider” filmmaker joined the film review database site Letterboxd and discussed some of his favorite films of all time.
Now, out promoting his new Michael Mann Archives website, he’s teamed with Letterboxd for a deeper dive to come up with a 50-minute interview discussing 25 films that inspire him and his work.
One of the big surprise inclusions is “Turbo,” the 2013 Dreamworks Animation film starring the voice of Ryan Reynolds as a racing snail. Mann says his “precocious eight-year-old granddaughter” is why he selected the film saying it had really good quality animation, was hilarious, and got the racing details right.
Many of the inclusions are along more expected lines from older classics like “Battleship Potemkin,” “From Here to Eternity,” “Dr. Strangelove,” “The Asphalt Jungle,” “Out of the Past,” “Raging Bull’ and “Apocalypse Now”.
The video also sees him talking about influences and tie-ins to specific films, from how “The Sweet Smell of Success” and “The Passion of Joan of Arc” impacted “The Insider” to “Manhattan Melodrama” and its ties to “Public Enemies”.
One of the most interesting bits in the video is his discussion of his 1986 classic “Manhunter” based on the Thomas Harris novel “Red Dragon”. That piece sees Mann discussing two of the most acclaimed South Korean thrillers ever made – Bong Joon Ho’s “Memories of Murder” and Kim Jee-woon’s “I Saw the Devil” which both came many years later but deal with similar themes.
Check out the video below.
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