The Oh, Oh, Hi everyone welcome back to the Faculty of Horror

Podcasting from the Horrid Halls of Academia I'm Alex West with Andrea

Subsati and we are back for our March episode with a film I am very

excited to talk about. Well you would be because you chose it. I did. It was my

I won it. I won this choice and we're going to talk about I want to say it's a real like quiet favorite of mine.

It's not a film I've returned to again and again.

I've watched it several times over the years.

But in the last year, two years,

I've really had a renaissance with the filmmaker Michael Mann and I've just fully established in my own

heart and mind that he is probably my favorite American filmmaker or at least one of

them okay but yeah it all kind of kicked off when I American filmmaker or at least one of them. Okay.

But yeah, it all kind of kicked off when I went to a rep cinema in Hamilton, Ontario with my parents.

And we went to see Michael Mann's first film, Thief,

with James Khan.

Have you ever seen that?

I can't think of another Michael Mann film that I've seen.

Oh, well, I'll walk you through some of them.

But Andrew, you know how last episode,

you were like, fuck me Oliver Reed

Urbong grandiée?

Fuck me Oliver Reed was the thrust of the episode I dare say

at least my contribution to it.

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