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	Mediajonez.com - Director's Spotlight: Michael Mann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		What Mann did for the next three years was write a crime saga for the screen, showing the highs and lows of both sides of the line.
		Michael Mann has been in the business for twenty-five plus years and he is now starting to find success and fame that he never could have imagined possible.
		Michael Mann can now saw that he brought Deniro and Pacino together for the first time at the same time, in a great scene between the good guy and the bad.
	www.mediajonez.com /film/mann0501.html (1855 words)

	Director, Television
		The television director, who sits atop the chain of command of the crew during the actual filming or taping of the show, is responsible for the visualization of the TV program, selecting the different camera angles and compositions that will used.
		Even in cases where the director is hired after a producer has initiated a project, and a script has already been commissioned, the director has great leeway to interpret the material in her or his own way.
		The director of an American football game must be ready for the cut to the downfield camera before the quarterback throws the pass, for example, or the talk show director should anticipate an outburst of audience response.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/D/htmlD/directortel/directortel.htm (1931 words)

	God of Filmmaking Michael Mann Director of Last of the Mohicans, Manhunter
		Mann has said that the first film that he remembers seeing as a child was the 1936 original version of this movie.
		Mann had a difficult time finding props and wardrobe from the corresponding period, so almost everything that was used in the film was made special for this film.
		The film follows Ali as he begins his boxing career as Cassius Clay, goes through various women in his life, becomes involved with the Nation of Islam, has a life changing experience in the “Rumble in the Jungle” while fighting George Foreman in Zaire, and is betrayed by his friends and business associates.
	www.ambidextrouspics.com /html/micheal_mann.html (1228 words)

	Michael Mann (film director) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michael Kenneth Mann (born February 5, 1943 in Chicago) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.
		Mann later moved to London in the mid-1960s, in part to dodge the Vietnam draft (which he was ineligible because of asthma).
		Mann is now known primarily as a feature film director and he is considered to be one of America's top filmmakers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Mann_(film_director) (1826 words)

	Michael Mann
		Mann returned to the US in the early '70s and directed a documentary called 17 Days Down the Line, a story about a Newsweek correspondent rediscovering his native land after five years away, a story very similar to Mann's own at the time.
		Mann documents Ali's political struggles: his decision to change his slave name from Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali, his conversion to the Nation of Islam, his responses to the assassinations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, and his conscientious objection.
		The Aquarium Syndrome: on the films of Michael Mann by Jean-Baptiste Thoret
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/02/mann.html (3056 words)

	IGN: Featured Filmmaker: Michael Mann
		The film died at the box-office and drifted into cult obscurity on cable and video until it was “rediscovered” as the “first Hannibal Lector movie” in the wake of the success of Silence of the Lambs.
		And while Mann necessarily cut certain flashback material present in the novel that explained the killer’s pathology, he smartly (and radically) did choose to preserve the story’s all-time great narrative curveball: virtually halting the police procedural plotline to depict the killer’s tentative, troubled romance with a sweet blind woman (Joan Allen).
		Mann’s loose adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper’s tale of war and romance in the 1750s is still his biggest commercial hit to date, and my initial reaction was that it was something of a sell-out (it was his first film since Manhunter and I was disappointed to see Mann doing something so conventional by comparison).
	filmforce.ign.com /articles/306/306726p1.html (1795 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Interviews \| Director Michael Mann tells Xan Brooks about getting into the ring with a legend
		In Mann's film Ali, the hero spends the first 20 minutes or so in a kind of wordless reverie before blowing noisily into the weigh-in for the first Sonny Liston fight, bragging 19 to the dozen.
		This, after all, is the director of films such as Manhunter, Heat and The Insider: he shouldn't need to argue his case with anyone.
		Surely he encountered some pressure to tailor the film for a white mainstream audience, to cater to the sort of viewer who loves Ali for his grace and wit but doesn't want to be grappling with all the hardline Nation of Islam baggage that comes with it.
	film.guardian.co.uk /interview/interviewpages/0,6737,649435,00.html (1319 words)

	Michael Mann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michael Mann (politician), Federal Marijuana Party candidate in Canada.
		Michael Thomas Mann (1919-1977), musician and professor of German literature, son of Thomas Mann.
		Michael Mann (sociologist) (born 1942), professor of sociology.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Mann (112 words)

	Chicago Film Directors
		Film is to the director what stage is to the actor.
		Because film is a visually oriented medium, it is the director's vision that drives the action more than the actors' presence.
		directors, but four specific ones who have captured the city and critics for the past three decades are John Hughes, John Landis, Harold Ramis, and Michael Mann.
	www.chicagopage.com /Film/Chicago-Film-Directors (635 words)

	Neil Young's Film Lounge
		Although he remains best known in Britain for devising Miami Vice, Michael Mann has quietly and steadily improved as a film director over the past 20 years until he now stands head and shoulders ahead of his competition, in the USA at least.
		Mann's use of lighting, his manipulation of perspective, his use of sound, his cutting, all come together to make the audience feel every ounce of the paranoia and anger that mounts inside Wigand's head.
		Mann has said that the fact that the film is about a real-life tobacco company isn't particularly important to him - it "might as well be about linoleum," in his words.
	www.jigsawlounge.co.uk /film/insider.html (302 words)

	Hollywood Film Festival® - Michael Mann
		MICHAEL MANN has earned numerous honors for his work as a director, writer, and producer, including three Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for the drama "The Insider," starring Russell Crowe and Al Pacino.
		In addition, he received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Director, was acknowledged by his peers with Directors Guild of America, Writers Guild of America, and Producers Guild of America Award nominations for his work on the film, and, along with Eric Roth, was honored by the WGA with the prestigious Paul Selvin award.
		Mann has received accolades for his thriller "Collateral," starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx, and he is a producer in the upcoming Howard Hughes biopic "The Aviator," directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
	www.hollywoodawards.com /news/2004/michael_mann.html (618 words)

	Film - Director Film Mann Michael
		Michael Mann (born February 5, 1944) is a film director, writer, and producer.
		Michael Kenneth Mann (born February 5, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois) is a film director, screenwriter, and producer.
		Michael Mann (born February_5, 1944 in Chicago,_Illinois) is a film_director, writer, and producer.
	film.exeroo.com /directorfilmmannmichael (1124 words)

	Michael Mann
		In 1986, Mann wrote the screenplay and directed Manhunter, putting Thomas Harris' hungry "Hannibal Lecter" on the screen in a low-budget but well-made thriller, five years before Anthony Hopkins played the role in Silence of the Lambs.
		Michael Mann wrote for Police Story and Starsky & Hutch, and served as executive producer of Miami Vice.
		Mann's Miami Vice traces its evolution to a two-word memo from an executive suite at NBC: "MTV cops." From that humble beginning sprang five years of coolness by Philip Michael Thomas and stubble on Don Johnson.
	www.nndb.com /people/683/000044551 (277 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Film \| Michael Mann's dark world
		For director Mann, however, it's the latest in a series of films exploring the morally ambivalent, noirish world of the career criminal.
		A graduate of London's International Film School, Chicago-born Mann, 61, worked for several years in Europe in television and film before moving to LA and establishing himself as a writer for top US cop dramas such as Starsky and Hutch.
		Mann admits the choice of Cruise raised eyebrows, but he seems to have tapped into something in the actor's psyche.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/3663420.stm (752 words)

	Michael Mann @ Filmbug
		Mann was born in Chicago and educated at the University of Wisconsin.
		In the mid-1970s, Mann made his theatrical film debut with THE THIEF, a modernist crime story starring James Caan and Jim Belushi that was nominated for the Golden Palm Award at Cannes.
		In 2001, Mann took audiences into the heart and life of legendary boxer, Muhammed Ali in ALI, starring Will Smith and Jon Voight, both of whom received Oscar nominations.
	www.filmbug.com /db/22406 (465 words)

	Michael Mann Bio and Movie Credits - RopeofSilicon.com
		Michael Mann has earned numerous honors for his work as a director, writer and producer, including three Academy Award nominations in the categories of Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for the drama The Insider.
		In addition, Mann received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Director, was acknowledged by his peers with Directors Guild of America, Writers Guild of America and Producers Guild of America Award nominations for his work on the film, and, along with Eric Roth, was honored by the WGA with the prestigious Paul Selvin award.
		Mann is also in development on the World War II drama The Few, about the Battle of Britain, to star Tom Cruise.
	www.ropeofsilicon.com /director.php?id=189 (640 words)

	Michael Mann Biography @ Filmbug
		Mann's auspicious feature film debut was Thief (1981), a modernist thriller starring James Caan as a high line burglar.
		The film was shot in Chicago and also featured Chicago Police Detective Dennis Farina, later to become known for his lead in Mann's Crime Story TV series.
		In 1992, Mann directed, co-wrote and co-produced the epic 18th century drama set in the frontier wilderness, The Last of the Mohicans, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Madeline Stowe.
	www.filmbug.com /db/22406-9 (388 words)

	iFMagazine.com Features - Exclusive Profile: MICHAEL MANN PAYS HOMAGE TO THE ORIGINAL BUT CREATES HIS OWN MIAMI ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Music is always a key part of any Michael Mann movie, and he was extremely adamant about the kinds of music used in the film.
		Most importantly, Mann didn't want the movie to be a direct remake of the series, though many of the essential elements remain.
		Mann is also a very selective director when it comes to what material should stay in the final cut of the film, and what ends up on the cutting room floor and he admits that the opening sequence had a 10-minute sequence that was cut to shorten up the beginning.
	www.ifmagazine.com /transitional.asp?strURL=feature.asp?article=1601 (709 words)

	kamera.co.uk - film review - Collateral directed by Director: Michael Mann - reviewed by Beth ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In Michael Mann's Collateral (2004), we are given a rare glimpse of the city as one of its everyday inhabitants might see it.
		Although Mann deftly builds the suspense regarding the killings and their drug-related implications, what he is most interested in is the relationship between Max and Vincent.
		Mann is interested in showing the contrasts as well as the similarities between the two men; while a code of morality to divides them (to put it succinctly, Vincent appears to have none), both share an obsession with detail and a loathing of uncertainty.
	www.kamera.co.uk /reviews_extra/collateral.php (1041 words)

	Mann Michel Movie >> Miami Micheal Mann Vice - Anatomy Michal Mann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Michael Kenneth Mann (born February 5, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.
		Mann was close to his father and his paternal grandfather, Sam, a Russian immigrant who had fought in World War I. Mann grew up in the rough Humboldt Park neighborhood and immersed himself in the burgeoning Chicago blues-music scene as a teenager.
		In a recent L. Weekly interview, he describes the film's impact on him: "It said to my whole generation of filmmakers that you could make an individual statement of high integrity and have that film be successfully seen by a mass audience all at the same time.
	www.grabnews.info /movies/michael-mann.htm (775 words)

	Amazon.com: Manhunter (Director's Cut, Limited Edition Set): DVD: Michael Mann,William L. Petersen,Kim Greist,Joan ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Petersen is equally well cast, and as always Mann employs rock music to astonishing effect, using nearly all of Iron Butterfly's heavy-metal epic "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" to accompany the film's heart-stopping climactic sequence.
		The second, "director's cut" version is clearly a pre-release work print, with lower grade titles and dubbing, and a final scene of Graham visiting near-victim family #3 that is just terrible.
		Michael Mann - Director, Thomas Harris - Writer (Novel Red Dragon), Michael Mann - Writer (Screenplay), Dino De Laurentiis - Producer (producer), Richard Roth - Producer (producer), Bernard Williams - Producer (executive producer)...
	www.amazon.com /Manhunter-Directors-Cut-Limited-Set/dp/B0000509C1 (2618 words)

	Amazon.com: Ali - The Director's Cut: DVD: Michael Mann,Will Smith,Jamie Foxx,Jon Voight,Mario Van Peebles,Ron ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mann's attempt to depict Ali's womanizing, his dubious affiliation with the Nation of Islam, and his insatiable need for the spotlight seems halfhearted and laborious in comparison to the film's enlivened adoration of its subject.
		Michael Mann's Ali was released in 2001 to mixed reviews and box-office indifference, so it was perhaps inevitable that Mann would release a director's cut on DVD.
		Mann's commentary is rich in historical and political context, rarely addressing technical filmmaking issues but offering a deep understanding of the issues and incidents that were dividing America in the mid- and late 1960s.
	www.amazon.com /Ali-Directors-Cut-Michael-Mann/dp/B0001XAOL6 (1916 words)

	Reel.com: Michael Mann - Biography
		Michael Mann started out in 1965 as a director of commercials and documentaries in England, and among other subjects covered the 1968 student riots in Paris.
		He won the Directors Guild of America Award as Best Director for the TV movie The Jericho Mile (1979), and made an auspicious feature debut with Thief (1981), a superior drama starring James Caan.
		Mann's epic crime drama Heat, starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, quickly slipped in and out of the box office but achieved a wide audience in its home viewing release.
	www.reel.com /reel.asp?node=oscars2000/nominees/director/director3/bio (212 words)

	Soundtrack albums for Michael Mann projects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Michael Mann is by no means the most prolific film director around, but when Mann works on a project such as Manhunter, he doesn't just direct!
		He's nearly always Executive Producer, often co-writes and is frequently also the Executive Producer of the soundtrack whenever one is released.
		Finally, Mann's 1983 movie "The Keep" which was, as with his earlier "Thief", scored by Tangerine Dream has never 'officially' been released on CD.
	www.manhunter.net /mann/michael_mann_movie_soundtracks.html (162 words)

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