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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...

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This is not the Portland, Oregon that I grew up in. I was a Trail Blazers Dancer in my early 20’s for several years and I used to LOVE being out in the city, especially at night! Those were some of the best years of my life. Now I worry about parking downtown in the middle of the day and getting my car broken into… not to mention all of the protests and riots taking place. It’s honestly just sad.

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James Caan on the mental state of the protagonist in Michael Mann's "Thief" (1981) & the reason why he couldn't stand the movie when he saw it: "He (Frank) learned to exist in jail. After he achieved the mental attitude that he didn't care about anything, they left him alone. Because if you're going to mess with him, he was willing to go the distance. The way I work, I like to be emotionally available, but this guy is available to nothing. Pretty soon I would find myself getting angry, my personal problems - with my son, with my ex-wife, whatever - would be magnified, because this guy was in existential pain for such a long time. For three months, I was a lunatic, I had migraines 24 hours a day, I lost about 20 pounds. And then when I looked at the movie, I couldn't stand it. My eyes were like two pieces of glass. They scared me. I said, 'That guy's a ki!!er.' '' ("At the movies by Chris Chase; For 'Thief' role, James Caan got first-hand data", The New York Times, 1981.) P.S: On this day, 45 years ago, "Thief" (1981) was released in the USA & Canada.

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John Carpenter on how Howard Hawks's "Rio Bravo" (1959) inspired him to become a filmmaker: "As I got older I began to see that certain directors did certain things. One of the earliest examples of this was Roger Corman. I started going to see these exciting, fast, kind of cheesy but really fun monster movies, and there was one name that kept coming up on the screen: Roger Corman. 'It Conquered the World' (1956), 'Not of This Earth' (1957), 'Attack of the Crab Monsters' (1957), 'The Undead' (1957)... But | really understood for the first time what a director did when I saw 'Rio Bravo' in 1959. There was something about that movie that was like home and I can't really explain it. It was held over in Bowling Green for three or four weeks in a row because people kept coming to see it. I abandoned to see what was new in the other movie house in town to see this movie every weekend again and again because there was something in it that was different from the other westerns I had seen. I had certainly seen John Wayne before. He had become a part of my growing-up experience. He was the action guy, the cowboy. He was the guy in 'Flying Tigers' (1942) who was flying the airplanes. So what was so different about that movie? Then I became aware of this credit: “Howard Hawks’ Rio Bravo.” I looked at the poster and I said to myself, “Who is this guy? He didn't write the movie and he wasn't starring in it so why is his name up here? And why is he last in the credits?” All these things started to occur to me, but it was the emotional impact of the film that got me to start using my brain. Some way I figure out that this director made that movie." ("The Prince of Darkness: The Prince of Darkness", Gilles Boulenger, 2001) P.S: Remembering the great American filmmaker Howard Hawks on his 130th birthday.

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I didn't like very big budget deficits. I thought often when people quoted Keynes about it not always being necessary to balance things one year with another, they always took the deficit years and forgot the years you in fact had a surplus so you had a balance over time. So deficits rose and rose. We got in. I was determined to tackle public expenditure. It was tough. Of course, we had a recession in 1981 and it went up but only very slightly because we were being very tough. In fact, I did the whole Falklands campaign without any increase in expenditure because we had the contingency reserve and that was adequate. At the end of my time, in the last four years, we had a budget surplus: We were able to redeem debt. Now, you don't get that without trying to be tough the whole time. There were some people who said, "Oh we've had a tough time. Consolidate. Don't you think you ought to be more generous to people?" I said, "With who's money?" And so, I left four years' surplus.

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💬 #SEONGHWA ment in Sydney tonight. "[...] When we came to Australia 7 years ago, I was not in the best health, some of you may know this. For me it was a painful memory." "For this concert I really wanted to show you a great performance. 7 years have +

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