Michael Mann Archives

Michael Mann’s debut feature film contains arguably the ten best minutes late actor James Caan ever put to celluloid.

If you can pull yourself away from staring at the ocean for long enough to watch a movie, we recommend selecting one of these twelve.

The masterful big-screen adaptation has a polarizing and distinct mid-2000s look to it, but that’s all part of what makes it great.

Proof that lowkey doesn’t have to mean dull and that a conversation can have as much tension as a heist sequence.

“I start with a question as a storyteller and filmmaker, how should this story tell itself?”

Plunge into the cool, electric color of Michael Mann. Everything from the luminous greens of ‘Thief’ to the Tiffany blues of ‘Blackhat.’

The cat-and-mouse chase. The iconic diner scene. The epic shootout. These things actually happened.

We chat about blending live-action and animation and how to earn a musical number.

This Storytellers video essay explores Mann’s “meditation on masculinity.”