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2-minute review: titles roll, a perfect thin neon font slipping onto a black screen, slight sound of rain hitting city streets. slowly, low synths thicken the atmosphere as the scene fades up, a monster of an '80s brick-shaped car slowly building speed. we watch as it eases under glowingly-lit chicago bridges, the street lamps reflecting doubly in the nearly-still puddles covering the street of this rainy night. michael mann has arrived. 10 seconds after the opening scene started, i froze. "holy shit" i thought, "am i watching a 5-star movie?" i knew thief was the well-respected wide-release... read
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Thief: Where Nothing Means Nothing
By Nick James
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JAN 13, 2014
Without a word spoken, the first two shots in Thief, Michael Manns groundbreaking 1981 feature debut, announce a simultaneously grim and dreamlike vision that seems, in retrospect, perfectly poised between the great urban crime films of the 1970s and the formal aesthetics of the 1980s—the “style decade” that Manns subsequent cinema and television work did so much to help shape.
In the first shot, the jewel thief Frank (James Caan) gets into an Eldorado driven by his partner Barry (James Belushi), which then cuts... read
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