5/21/2023 0 Comments Drug wars the camarena story songsIt also landed him a contract to make his theatrical film debut. A hard-hitting drama about a convicted murderer (Peter Strauss) who survives the brutality of his surroundings and regains his self-respect by striving to become an Olympic runner, the well-received film added considerable luster to the often maligned TV movie form and won Mann an Emmy award. The result was The Jericho Mile (1979), which replaced the sun-drenched mean streets of Starsky and Hutch and the often rain-slicked ones of Police Story with the pallid walls of Folsom Prison. Mann paid his dues in Hollywood writing episodes for TV cop shows of the 1970s, such as Starsky and Hutch and Joseph Wambaugh's Police Story for the ABC network he wrote the pilot episode of Vega$, a short-lived Robert Urich private-eye series whose setting lent itself naturally to Mann's "neon look." By this time a specialist in the genre the French call roman policier, Mann had little difficulty convincing the network to give him a shot at writing and directing a feature film in a similar vein for its growing made-for-TV movie division. Like a number of contemporary directors, he got his start making television commercials, and he has carried over many of the stylistic ingredients of commercials into his subsequent film work. Mann transferred to the London Film School in 1965 for training and graduated two years later. However, while attending the University of Wisconsin and majoring in English literature, he took a film course for a fast A and got hooked on moviemaking instead. Given the razzle-dazzle MTV approach he brings to his craft, it is ironic that he started out wanting to be a writer. His stylistic signature is a hip, almost neon look, the images sharply edited and backed by adrenalin-pumping music. ![]() Michael Mann's cinematic landscape is the mean streets of urban neo-noir. Journal: The Writers Guild of America, West ( Los Angeles), February 1997. Kit, Z., "Welcome to the Dark Side," in Written By. "Bob and Al in the Coffee Shop," in Sight and Sound (London), March 1996. Schnelle, F., in EPD Film (Frankfurt), March 1996. Nazzaro, in Cineforum (Bergamo), January-February 1996.Ĭombs, Richard, "Michael Mann: Becoming," in Film Comment ( New York), March-April 1996. Lombardi, John, "What a Piece of Work Is Mann," in Gentleman's Quarterly, 1992.Ĭhiacchiari, Federico, and G. Hooper, J., "Mann and Mohican," in Esquire, 1992. Schruers, F., "Mann Overboard," in Premiere, 1992. Foote, "Mann in the Wilderness," in News-week, 1992. Smith, G., "Mann Hunters," in Film Comment, 1992.Īnsen, David, and D. Murphy, K., "Communion," in Film Comment, 1991. Greco, M., "Up and Coming: Michael Mann," in Film Comment, 1980. ![]() "Mann to Man," an interview with Geoff Andrew, in Time Out (London), 17 January 1996. "Brave Attempt/Mann Made," an interview with Brian Case and Geoff Andrew, in Time Out (London), 4 November 1992. "Wars and Peace," in Sight and Sound, 1992. "An Interview with the Director of Thief," in Rolling Stone, 1981. ![]() "Four-Minute Mile: Michael Mann Interviewed," in Films & Filming, 1980. ![]() Vega$ (for TV) (sc) Straight Time (sc, uncredited) 1980ĭrug Wars: The Camarena Story (TV mini-series) (exec-pr, co-sc) 1992ĭrug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel (TV mini-series) (exec-pr) The Last of the Mohicans (+ co-sc, pr) 1995 The Jericho Mile (for TV) (+ sc, exex-pr) 1981 Agent: Jeff Berg, International Creative Management, 8899 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048, U.S.A. Awards: Directors Guild of America Best Director Award, 1980, for The Jericho Mile Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Limited Series or Special, 1980, for The Jericho Mile Cognac Festival du Film Policier Critics Award, for Manhunter, 1987 National Board of Review Freedom of Expression Award, 1999, Golden Satellite Award for Best Director, 2000, and Writers Guild of America Paul Selvin Honorary Award (with Eric Roth), 2000, all for The Insider. Career: Directed shorts, commercials, and documentaries in England, 1967–72 wrote episodes for television series Starsky and Hutch and Police Story and created Vega$ and Miami Vice directorial debut, The Jericho Mile (TV movie), 1979 screen debut, Thief, 1981. Education: University of Wisconsin, 1965 London Film School, 1967. Born: Chicago, Illinois, 5 February 1943.
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