Be a good question for an interview. I remember Pacino’s car from Heat was up for auction a few years ago.
All right, one more thing and I’ll be done wanking over LOTM:
It features Pete Postlethwaite in a non-speaking role. That’s like ten kinds of geek cred right there.
I remember reading he and Wes Studi really hit it off, became really good friends on the set.
But isn’t it Posthelwaite who arrests Day-Lewis after he helps the settlers escape?
Thank you Brendan for making a thread about arguably the best director of all-time.
For my bones, Heat is the greatest film ever made. Truly a wonderful piece of work that I can’t understand why it’s been overlooked all these years.
I honestly didn’t expect this kind of a response. But then again I’m on a board where people who love movies come to chat about them and such. I’d say this the best topic I’ve started since I’ve been here and the best posts I’ve made. Thanks to everyone for responding and I must say that my opinion of Ali and The Last of the Mohicans have changed since reading some of your responses. Thanks again all! Awsomness to the MAX!
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| Originally Posted by Brendan I honestly didn’t expect this kind of a response. But then again I’m on a board where people who love movies come to chat about them and such. I’d say this the best topic I’ve started since I’ve been here and the best posts I’ve made. Thanks to everyone for responding and I must say that my opinion of Ali and The Last of the Mohicans have changed since reading some of your responses. Thanks again all! Awsomness to the MAX! |
No problem. The Last of the Mohicans and Ali aren’t bad films at all but they’re not up to the quality that I know Mann can do. Still great films for what they are.
'Bout damn time people started to appriciate Mike Mann.
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| Originally Posted by Duke, Raol All right, one more thing and I’ll be done wanking over LOTM: It features Pete Postlethwaite in a non-speaking role. That’s like ten kinds of geek cred right there. |
And don’t forget Colm Meany who is listed in the end credits as “Ambrose”. I’ve never been able to find any of Meany’s scenes in either version of the Last of the Mohican DVDs, so was he cut from the film or am I just blind? He definitely did film scenes because I found a picture of him on the following site. Just scroll down on the page and you’ll see him posing with Wes Studi.
Meany, IIRC, appears in a couple of scenes but has no speaking parts. Maurice Roeves, Col. Munro, was also on an episode of ST:TNG…
I hate double dips but LOTM I think deserves another release with Commentary, and some Docs. The sound and the pic are up to snuff particularly in DTS.
A Studi/Posthelwaite team-up directed by Mann would be awesomness to the MAX.
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| Originally Posted by RathBandu A Studi/Posthelwaite team-up directed by Mann would be awesomness to the MAX. |
Hey! Only I may use “awsomness to the MAX” you just sit quietly and appreciate Michael Mann. 
I’ve always felt that The Insider DESERVES a Criterion release. Imagine this:
Michael Mann commentary (mayhaps with cinematographer Dante Spinotti, Russell Crowe and Al Pacino)
Current interviews with Mann, Pacino, Crowe and cast reflecting on the film
Current interviews with Wigand and Bergman discussing the film and what it did by bringing this issue and Wigands story to the spotlight
Original un-cut 60 Minutes interview with Wigand
Original article the film was based off of
Interview with the editor of the film
Photo galleries
Trailers
(that cover took me a whole two minutes to make!)
would be great but The Insider is a Warners picture so they always keep it in house
your cover is still to busy for a criterion
Warners can suck on my balls! And I thought about removing the Pacino photo and just leaving the title card on it.
LOTM is definitely up there with Mann’s best, it’s “Ali” I find myself riding in to defend from its lackluster reputation. This thread is encouraging though. I know Subotai, myself, and others have started Mann-themes threads before, but only since “Collateral” have we seen them start getting replies like this.
The Insider was Warners?
THE INSIDER was Disney/Touchstone.
I thought so. I remember Mann being pissed about the ad campaign when it came out. I didn’t mind it, Magua waiting with a tomahawk and a knife at the doors to the theatre wouldn’t have kept me out, but I can understand how Mann would’ve wanted a more inspiring, ‘Man of the People’ (a title which was considered for the film) display. I also remember Pacino appearing on the Rosie O’Donnell show to give a plug on the Monday after the lousy opening weekend.
I also remember Mann having zero chance in hell of winning the Oscar with those negative mentions of Westinghouse in the film. Bastards.
“The Insider” is one of those timely, “important” films that I really don’t think will ever be dated. Like how “All the President’s Men” is still relevant, while “Network” feels quaint. The performances are too good, the themes too universal, the direction just too good. And yeah, the ad campaighn sucked. I saw it opening weekend but was in a near empty theatre. Mann got a nod, Crowe too, but they really didn’t have much of a shot. Remember, “American beauty” was the best film of 1999 in every category right?
I think the stupidity of that particular Oscars has gotten more obvious every year. “The Insider” is holding up better than anything from that year. It’s actually getting better.
yeah its touchstone somehow when I looked at my dvd rack insomnia which is black and 2 dvds over the logo looked like it was on the insider
Warners can still suck my balls.
Fuck you Disney/Touchstone! I want you to demand… DEMAND a Criterion release of this film!