Tag: Michael Mann
Posted in Year in Film
The Insider – Blowin’ Smoke at Big Tobacco
Steve Schweighofer April 7, 2018
Millions more people have died of ailments caused by cigarette smoke than by all terrorist attacks in every country since time began, so when Michael Mann opens his film about tobacco industry whistleblower Jeffery Wigand (Russell Crowe) with CBS producer Lowell Bergman (Al Pacino) preparing a 60 Minutes interview with Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, cleric and cheerleader for suicide bombers, Mann had me at “hello.”
Posted in Oscars
100 Not Nominated For Oscars – Part 16
Robin Write November 26, 2017
The front-runners heading into the final straight of the 1995 Oscar race seemed to be Sense and Sensibility and Apollo 13. That was until the…
Posted in Links
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic #26
Robin Write December 21, 2015
Running close to Christmas now, too close for comfort, so I have not gift-wrapped these recent movie-related links. That said, they are all worthy of…
