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Remembering the incomparable James Caan on his birthday. 💎 Here he is, burning up the screen giving one of his most riveting performances in Michael Mann’s THIEF (1981)! Check out our 4K edition of Mann’s hypnotically beautiful and moody crime drama—featuring an amazing commentary by Mann and Caan +...

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Remembering the incomparable James Caan on his birthday. 💙 Here he is, burning up the screen giving one of his most riveting performances in Michael Mann’s THIEF (1981)!
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Remembering the incomparable James Caan on his birthday. 💙 Here he is, burning up the screen giving one of his most riveting performances in Michael Mann’s THIEF (1981)!

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97,427 views • 1 year ago

I woke up this morning & I couldn’t stop thinking about James Caan in Michael Mann’s Thief. Frank’s defiance is his ultimate strength- he refuses to give in to the forces around him, regardless of the cost. Call it pride, call it integrity- call it ego. But there are weeks I can’t let go of Frank’s stubbornness. No one could’ve played this role better than Caan.
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I woke up this morning & I couldn’t stop thinking about James Caan in Michael Mann’s Thief. Frank’s defiance is his ultimate strength- he refuses to give in to the forces around him, regardless of the cost. Call it pride, call it integrity- call it ego. But there are weeks I can’t let go of Frank’s stubbornness. No one could’ve played this role better than Caan.

Cinema Tweets

31,045 views • 1 month ago

Thief is a 1981 neo-noir, heist action thriller film written directed by Michael Mann. It stars James Caan as Frank, an expert, high-end thief with a troubled past. This scene, 40 min in, explains who Frank really is. The film reminds me of Mann's later masterpiece, Heat (1995).
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Thief is a 1981 neo-noir, heist action thriller film written directed by Michael Mann. It stars James Caan as Frank, an expert, high-end thief with a troubled past. This scene, 40 min in, explains who Frank really is. The film reminds me of Mann's later masterpiece, Heat (1995).

West Bestern 🛡️

50,902 views • 3 years ago

Tom Noonan’s Francis Dollarhyde in Michael Mann’s Manhunter (1986) is one of the most underrated villains on screen. Soft-spoken, damaged, and terrifying all at once, he feels painfully human.
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Tom Noonan’s Francis Dollarhyde in Michael Mann’s Manhunter (1986) is one of the most underrated villains on screen. Soft-spoken, damaged, and terrifying all at once, he feels painfully human.

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149,699 views • 9 months ago

Thief is a Michael Mann masterpiece. The more I’ve watched this, the more it’s morphed into an all-time favorite because the filmmaking here is really mature & really detailed. James Caan was a force of nature. The fact he’s gone still doesn’t feel real. He couldn’t be better.
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Thief is a Michael Mann masterpiece. The more I’ve watched this, the more it’s morphed into an all-time favorite because the filmmaking here is really mature & really detailed. James Caan was a force of nature. The fact he’s gone still doesn’t feel real. He couldn’t be better.

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200,396 views • 8 months ago

The character of Frank, played by James Caan in Thief, was partly based on real-life professional thief John Santucci, who served as a consultant on the film. Santucci also appears in the movie as Sergeant Urizzi, the corrupt Chicago vice cop who harasses and shakes down Frank. Santucci, who had only recently been paroled, trained Caan in the methods of a professional thief and supplied the production with his own collection of burglary tools. Under his supervision, Caan spent weeks learning to operate specialized drills, hydraulic pullers and high-temperature thermal lances. The safes Caan breaks into were real, worth thousands of dollars, and the tools and techniques were completely authentic.
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The character of Frank, played by James Caan in Thief, was partly based on real-life professional thief John Santucci, who served as a consultant on the film. Santucci also appears in the movie as Sergeant Urizzi, the corrupt Chicago vice cop who harasses and shakes down Frank. Santucci, who had only recently been paroled, trained Caan in the methods of a professional thief and supplied the production with his own collection of burglary tools. Under his supervision, Caan spent weeks learning to operate specialized drills, hydraulic pullers and high-temperature thermal lances. The safes Caan breaks into were real, worth thousands of dollars, and the tools and techniques were completely authentic.

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80,162 views • 1 month ago

Here’s your reminder James Caan and Tuesday Weld were fucking electric in a nearly 10-minute scene in “Thief” filmed at the O’Hare Tollway Oasis—a spot chosen by Michael Mann because he had spent a night there talking to his future wife.
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Here’s your reminder James Caan and Tuesday Weld were fucking electric in a nearly 10-minute scene in “Thief” filmed at the O’Hare Tollway Oasis—a spot chosen by Michael Mann because he had spent a night there talking to his future wife.

Richard Roeper

285,230 views • 1 year ago

It’s Michael Mann’s 83rd birthday. Get your shit together. Act accordingly. Turn on The Insider, damn it. For so many other directors, The Insider would be their best film. For Mann, it’s just one of his best- one of many great films. And it’s so incredibly, painfully relevant.
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It’s Michael Mann’s 83rd birthday. Get your shit together. Act accordingly. Turn on The Insider, damn it. For so many other directors, The Insider would be their best film. For Mann, it’s just one of his best- one of many great films. And it’s so incredibly, painfully relevant.

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31,467 views • 6 months ago

One of Michael Mann’s favorite Robert De Niro moments in Heat, comes right after he confronts Ashley Judd’s character and tells her, “Clean up, go home.” "There's a brilliant Robert De Niro moment here in the way he repeats “clean up, go home”. That is pure De Niro. It is genius. It is the genius of Robert De Niro. And you can't analyze why it's there, how it's there, how it's expressed. It's spontaneous and it's truly in character. And It's from the small moments that you see that just explode out of an actor sometimes, that to me, they demark genius. And you know it when you see it - and that's one of them." Quote is from Michael Mann’s director’s commentary on the Heat DVD
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One of Michael Mann’s favorite Robert De Niro moments in Heat, comes right after he confronts Ashley Judd’s character and tells her, “Clean up, go home.” "There's a brilliant Robert De Niro moment here in the way he repeats “clean up, go home”. That is pure De Niro. It is genius. It is the genius of Robert De Niro. And you can't analyze why it's there, how it's there, how it's expressed. It's spontaneous and it's truly in character. And It's from the small moments that you see that just explode out of an actor sometimes, that to me, they demark genius. And you know it when you see it - and that's one of them." Quote is from Michael Mann’s director’s commentary on the Heat DVD

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113,060 views • 4 months ago

Thief (1981) Dir. Michael Mann Quentin Tarantino on Michael Mann and the influence of Thief. '"Everyone heard about after the fact that he just kept a water truck on his set all the time just to constantly wet down streets. And then all of a sudden that became the thing for directors to do. "Thief looks fantastic. Let's get a water truck and let's just wet down these night streets and throw lights on them." ...when you're saying it affected your work, I mean, there's lines in Thief that affected my life. Insofar as I have always lived my life trying to be like James Caan insofar as I am Joe Boss of my own life. I am Joe Boss! and I am Joe Boss of my own life!"'
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Thief (1981) Dir. Michael Mann Quentin Tarantino on Michael Mann and the influence of Thief. '"Everyone heard about after the fact that he just kept a water truck on his set all the time just to constantly wet down streets. And then all of a sudden that became the thing for directors to do. "Thief looks fantastic. Let's get a water truck and let's just wet down these night streets and throw lights on them." ...when you're saying it affected your work, I mean, there's lines in Thief that affected my life. Insofar as I have always lived my life trying to be like James Caan insofar as I am Joe Boss of my own life. I am Joe Boss! and I am Joe Boss of my own life!"'

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116,672 views • 5 months ago

Hey folks, join me for an amazing week on The Rhine featuring 3 intimate performances, some of the most beautiful sights in Europe & much more. Register now and I will see you onboard!
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Quentin Tarantino in his books 'Cinema Speculation' called the ending of 'The Outfit' (1973) as one of the most satisfying movie sequences. Excerpt from the book: "The movie ends with Duvall and Baker doing an all-out assault on Ryan’s home compound. And it’s one of the more satisfying sequences of that type I’ve ever seen, far better than the similar action climax in Michael Mann’s 'Thief' (1981). While it’s not as amazing or as violent as the whorehouse pump-action-shotgun shootout in John Flynn’s next film, 'Rolling Thunder' (1977), it’s still cool and exciting. And the scene between Duvall and Baker on the stairs is the epitome of poignant masculinity. With the picture’s final freeze frame capper displaying a self-mocking tone that ends the whole film on a hearty macho guffaw."
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Quentin Tarantino in his books 'Cinema Speculation' called the ending of 'The Outfit' (1973) as one of the most satisfying movie sequences. Excerpt from the book: "The movie ends with Duvall and Baker doing an all-out assault on Ryan’s home compound. And it’s one of the more satisfying sequences of that type I’ve ever seen, far better than the similar action climax in Michael Mann’s 'Thief' (1981). While it’s not as amazing or as violent as the whorehouse pump-action-shotgun shootout in John Flynn’s next film, 'Rolling Thunder' (1977), it’s still cool and exciting. And the scene between Duvall and Baker on the stairs is the epitome of poignant masculinity. With the picture’s final freeze frame capper displaying a self-mocking tone that ends the whole film on a hearty macho guffaw."

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Manhunter is 40. As such, one of the most underrated films of Michael Mann’s career is returning to U.S. theaters on July 24 in a new "Final Cut" which features a supervised 4K restoration and updated audio. Ask me if I’ll be there. My answer is an obvious “yes”. Cinema lives.
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One of the most powerful performances by James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano comes in a scene where Tony is forced to confront the emotional weight of his life, his family, and the consequences of his actions Gandolfini masterfully balances intimidation, vulnerability, anger, and sadness in just a few minutes of screen time.
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One of the most powerful performances by James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano comes in a scene where Tony is forced to confront the emotional weight of his life, his family, and the consequences of his actions Gandolfini masterfully balances intimidation, vulnerability, anger, and sadness in just a few minutes of screen time.

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39,098 views • 2 months ago

Happy Birthday to Michael Schenker who celebrates his 70th birthday today! What a legend of the axe he is, and to honour him here he is with his own Michael Schenker Group playing ‘Armed and Ready’ back in 1981! Happy Birthday mate! 🎉🥳👏🎊🙌
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Happy Birthday to Michael Schenker who celebrates his 70th birthday today! What a legend of the axe he is, and to honour him here he is with his own Michael Schenker Group playing ‘Armed and Ready’ back in 1981! Happy Birthday mate! 🎉🥳👏🎊🙌

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70,434 views • 1 year ago

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Thief (1981) Dir. Michael Mann Released in theaters 45 years ago today, Thief remains one of the greatest neo-noir heist thrillers ever made. It was Michael Mann’s feature debut, though he’d already spent years working in television, many of the film’s visual ideas had been developing in him for years before that while growing up in Chicago. “It was a tough subject, but I grew up in inner city in Chicago, and I probably was imagining some of the visuals in Thief I probably encountered when I was, you know, in my late teens, early twenties. There's always something special about driving through some of those cage iron bridges on the way to Kankakee across the river. There were some parts of the industrial landscape in Chicago and on the river were really always exciting to me. I didn't really know why.” Michael Mann

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Happy Birthday Ron Paul! I don’t like politicians, but Paul is an exception. He has interesting and important things to say. He helped found much of our libertarian movement. In honor of his birthday, check out our extended interview.

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