Heat director joins Letterboxd and shares his 14 favorite movies – and, predictably, he has great taste
Jul. 4, 2024His picks include Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, and Yorgos Lanthimos
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Following in the footsteps of Mike Flanagan and Martin Scorsese, Heat and Miami Vice director Michael Mann is the latest filmmaker to make an account on film review social media siteLetterboxd.
The director quickly made a list of his top flicks, titled “14 Favorite Films in no particular order (except Potemkin)”. As well as plenty of classics – like Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 silent epic Battleship Potemkin, in the list’s top spot – from legendary directors like Francis Ford Coppola and Stanley Kubrick, there are a few newer releases in there, too, made by filmmakers like Yorgos Lanthimos, Kathryn Bigelow, and Guillermo del Toro.
Each title has a note from Mann singing its praises. Of Poor Things, he writes, “Wildly, expressionistically torqued. Kafka, if he was droll. Brilliant.” For Pan’s Labyrinth, meanwhile, the director says it’s “a real favorite of mine. Fairytales are not behavioristic, they’re very Freudian. They use symbols, particularly youth. Bruno Bettelheim did a lot of work on the nature of fairytales. As in a dream, fairytales have the power to invade our consciousness on many levels as we take it in. That’s the particular genius that Guillermo del Toro has.”
Heat 2, which will act as both a prequel and a sequel to Mann’s 1995 crime movie, is also in the works, with Driver andAustin Butler rumoredto be playing the roles taken on by Robert De Niro and Val Kilmer in the original.
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