On the face of it, you probably couldn’t imagine two filmmakers more dissimilar than Guillermo del Toro and Michael Mann. The former creates intricate fantasy worlds, weaving fairy tales and dark-edged stories, with his own distinct fingerprint and creative spirit. The latter is a filmmaker who studies characters obsessed with process, shoots with precision, and places an emphasis on realism. However, both filmmakers are immaculate craftsmen, which makes this next bit of news tremendously exciting.
At the Lumière Film Festival, Cannes honcho Thierry Fremaux presented the recent director’s cut of Michael Mann’s “Heat,” and revealed a fascinating nugget of information: Guillermo del Toro is making a documentary about Michael Mann.
That’s about all the details there are at the moment. There’s no word if it’s a feature (though Mann certainly has the filmography to support that), or if it’ll be the kind of thing with an extra feature on something like a release by The Criterion Collection. But the idea of someone as passionate about film as del Toro, making a movie about Mann’s work is pretty exciting. And he’s clearly a fan of the director’s work.
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We’ll be keeping an ear to the ground for this one, because as fans of “De Palma” and “Spielberg,” we’re ready for another auteur-driven documentary to arrive. Most importantly, del Toro and Mann seem to get along famously…. [Telerama]
