Action! If there’s one word associated with cinema, the tension of movie sets, and the focus of attention, it’s this one. Action is very often at the heart of popular cinema: Harold Lloyd hanging from the clock hands in Safety Last! (1923), Cary Grant threatened and strafed by a plane in North by Northwest (1959), Franka Potente gasping for air in Run Lola Run (1998)... Westerns, swashbuckler films, martial arts or adventure flicks, thrillers, all these genres rely on action—sometimes frenetic, sometimes meticulously measured.
From movies by Sergei Eisenstein to Gilles Carle, from John Ford to John Boorman and Werner Herzog, via Paul Verhoeven, Kathryn Bigelow, Park Chan-wook, Érik Canuel, and Nicolas Winding Refn, this series will take you through the full range of emotions, from laughter to thrills, from fear to satisfaction.
35 mm print loaned by the Cineclub Film Society
Following a failed armoured truck heist, Neil McCauley, the leader of the gang responsible for the robbery, finds himself hot on the heels of Vincent Hanna, the lieutenant assigned to the case. A tense battle of titans ensues between them—played by two cinema legends, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino—in a particularly compelling screenplay.
Michael Mann
Michael Mann is an American film director, screenwrieter, and producer. His documentary short film Jaunpuri won the Jury Prize at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival. Robert Lewin gave him a shot and a crash course on television writing and story structure on the Starsky & Hutch and Vega$ series. Mann's debut feature in cinema, Thief, was selected at Cannes in 1981. In the 1980s, he produced television series such as Miami Vice and Police Story, before shifting his focus entirely to filmmaking in the next decade, delivering three standout works that garnered widespread acclaim from cinephiles and filmmakers alike: the historical epic The Last of the Mohicans (1992), the gripping crime thriller Heat (1995), and the investigative drama The Insider (1999). Following a biopic about Muhammad Ali, Mann took on Collateral (2004), a crime thriller that became his biggest success at the box office. He then adapted Miami Vice (2006) to the big screen, explored the life of gangster John Dillinger, and directed Ferrari, with Adam Driver portraying the legendary automaker. Mann's trademarks include powerfully-lit nighttime scenes and unusual scores, such as Tangerine Dream’s score for Thief. His films are frequently praised for their dynamic energy, meticulous craftsmanship, and psychological depth.
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