#347 - The Digital Michael Mann

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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We discuss Michael Mann's digital filmography, which includes COLLATERAL, PUBLIC ENEMIES, MIAMI VICE and BLACK HAT. Join the Patreon now for an exclusive episode every week, access to our entire Patreon Episode back catalogue, your name read out on the next episode, and the friendly Discord chat: patreon.com/theimportantcinemaclub Subscribe, Review and Rate Us on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-…ub/id1067435576 Follow the Podcast: twitter.com/ImprtCinemaClub Follow Will: twitter.com/WillSloanESQ Follow Justin: twitter.com/DeclouxJ Check out Justin's other podcasts, THE BAY STREET VIDEO PODCAST (@thebaystreetvideopodcast), THE VERY FINE COMIC BOOK PODCAST (www.theveryfinecomicbookpodcast.com) and NO SUCH THING AS A BAD MOVIE (@nosuchthingasabadmovie), as well as Will's MICHAEL AND US (@michael-and-us)

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0:00.0	Hello, my name is Justin the Klu, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.
0:10.4	And you are listening to the Important Cinema Club.
0:13.7	And today we're talking about Michael Mann.
0:16.2	Specifically, we're talking about the digital man.
0:19.7	Yes, that's right.
0:20.7	Michael Mann, collateral onward. So even though he did use a little bit the digital man. Yes, that's right. Michael Mann, collateral onward.
0:22.8	Oh, even though he did use a little bit of digital video when he shot elite. And I think he used
0:26.2	a little bit of celluloid when he shot Miami Vice as well, didn't he? Oh, he did on collateral.
0:31.0	Okay. Where the opening daylight scenes and one scene indoors are shot on film, and then almost all of the rest is shot on digital
0:39.1	video.
0:39.4	Well, I think we can all agree that when he wants to make a normal-looking movie, and we're
0:43.9	putting normal in quotes, Michael Mann can make an exceptionally good-looking, normal-looking
0:48.9	movie.
0:49.5	Mm-hmm.
0:49.8	You know, thief, Manhunter, Heat, The Insider, Exceptionally Imaginative movies that are well-crafted visual experiences.
0:58.1	He's a guy just through being an executive producer on the TV series Miami Vice and the films that you just mentioned, kind of defined an 80s look.
1:07.5	Like, you look at Manhunter, you look at Thief.
1:09.2	That is what people imagine the ultimate version of the 80s to look like.
1:13.3	Like slick, polished.
1:15.2	Yeah.
1:15.7	And then in the 2000s, he switched from shooting on 35 millimeter film to digital.
1:21.6	And obviously, a lot of people did in the 2000s as well.
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