6 posts tagged ‘michael mann’
The Boys In The Boat's rowing scenes are actually kind of great, the Snyderverse is still pretty terrible, and more of the week's top film stories
AV Club,
There have been several reasons for cinephiles to rejoice in 2023, but few are more exciting than the return of Michael Mann. Absent from theaters since 2015, the 80-year-old director has come roaring back with the high-speed biopic Ferrari. The film gives Mann, known chiefly for crime thrillers grounded in process… Read more...
How Ferrari's controversial CG crashes play a crucial part in the story
There’s a scene in Michael Mann’s Ferrari where beleaguered, self-obsessed car-manufacturer Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver) is looking over race car designs alongside his son, Piero, whom he had with his mistress, Lina Lardi (Shailene Woodley), and has been raising in secret—from both the public and his wife, Penélope… Read more...
Every Michael Mann movie ranked, including Ferrari
There have been several reasons for cinephiles to rejoice in 2023, but few are more exciting than the return of Michael Mann. Absent from theaters since 2015, the 80-year-old director has come roaring back with the high-speed biopic Ferrari. The film gives Mann, known chiefly for crime thrillers grounded in process… Read more...
The biggest snubs and surprises from the 2024 Golden Globe nominations
The Golden Globes are back, and while it’s too soon to say whether they’re better, the slate of nominations that Cedric The Entertainer and Wilmer Valderrama announced Monday morning were genuinely promising. On a macro level, the Globes did a generally good job of highlighting both non-American, non-English-language… Read more...
Saturday Night Live recap: Adam Driver remains a deranged delight
We’re two for two, folks: coming off of a solid episode last week, hosted by newly minted Five Timers Club member Emma Stone, Adam Driver pulled into Saturday Night Live last night for his fourth time as host, in promotion for his upcoming role as ex-racer turned auto emperor Enzo Ferrari in Michael Mann’s Ferrari. Read more...
The week in film: Emma Stone shines in Poor Things, plus the greatest gangster movies
Director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Killing Of A Sacred Deer) is not what one might call a conventional filmmaker, crafting his films with deadpan line delivery that enhances the surreal quality of their premises to lay bare fundamental truths of the human experience. His previous collaboration with… Read more...