I saw
Thief, end of last month. This is how it made me feel;
Manhunter is a film that rises in my estimation every time I think of it or catch another glance at it. That clinical excellence, a kind of cinematic shorthand and a clipped vocabulary is on show here as well. I like Michael Mann before he bought a thesaurus.
My point being Mann does the same things again in
Heat, just twice (pro thief and pro cop).
Yeah, criminal artisan is something
Thief and
Drive share, and share with the JP Melville crime films. The driving sequences of
Drive had the same aesthetic as Mann's
Collateral for me, those streets probably lend it that, although Friedkin's
To Live and Die in LA seems to take place in a much dustier, dirtier city.