For the first retrospective of 2019, I wanted to take the Aftertaste into realms it hadn’t been in. Yes we have covered a variety of franchises and film series. But one thing we haven’t done is focus on the resume of one filmmaker and one filmmaker only. Who better to do this with than the master of the ‘ultimate man film’, Michael Mann. With a wide variety of films and a meticulous style that has attempted to be replicated but has never been duplicated, Mann presents quite a set of films to look at. In order to do so, we once again brought in Michael Guarnieri from the Hannibal Lecter Retrospective to do what he had originally contacted me to do to begin with. A Michael Mann Retrospective.
After Heat was released and made the huge splash that it did, Michael Mann could make anything he wanted. He ended up waiting four years, deciding to do the story of his friend, 60 Minutes producer Lowell Bergman's efforts to get one of the most important segments in news television history on the air. With his old buddy Al Pacino and about to breakout star Russell Crowe set to star, Mann made 1999's The Insider, garnering 7 Academy Award nominations in the process.
Join myself, Matt, and Mike as we dissect and review the film, and Mike gives quite the insight as to what it was like living where this whole story was going down. Don't forget to come back on Friday as we'll post our just recorded Ali review, and we continue down the road of Michael Mann's aesthetic.
The Insider (1999) (?/10, ?/10, ?/10)
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