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April at the Trylon
Mann grew up on the mean streets of Chicago after World War II. His films revolve around a core reality and defining identity of what it means to be an American—criminality. Mann’s America is populated with serial killers, bank robbers, hit men, and the not-so-different institutions built to contain them. Always innovating and pushing the medium, Mann was a pioneer in using synth in his soundtracks and was one of the earliest directors to adopt and innovate digital filmmaking.
(1981, 123m) dir Michael Mann w/James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson. Ex-con Frank (Caan) is an expert safecracker looking to do one more job, but his new associates are not so trustworthy. With beautiful photography, raw performances from Caan and Weld, a vibrating score from Tangerine Dream and Craig Safan, and unrelenting tension, Thief is…
Screenings: April 3 7:00, 9:30, April 4 7:00, 9:30, April 5 3:00, 5:30
(1986, 120m) dir Michael Mann w/William Petersen, Kim Greist, Brian Cox. Will Graham (Petersen) is a retired FBI profiler called in to catch an elusive serial killer known as the “Tooth Fairy” (Tom Noonan) and must consult another serial murderer he caught years before: Hannibal Lecktor (Cox). Mann’s brilliant direction brings the audience into a…
Screenings: April 5 8:00, April 6 7:00, 9:30, April 7 7:00, 9:30
(1995, 170m) dir Michael Mann w/Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer. Neil McCauley (De Niro) and his crew expertly shift from one big score to another, until they inadvertently leave a clue that puts Lt. Vincent Hanna (Pacino) on their tail. Heat is an American epic that dissects opposite sides of the law. Mann’s…
Screenings: April 10 7:00, April 11 7:00, 3:30, April 12 3:00, 6:30, 11:30, April 13 7:00, April 14 7:00, April 16 7:00
(2004, 120m) dir Michael Mann w/Jamie Foxx, Tom Cruise, Jada Pinkett Smith. Cabdriver Max (Foxx) picks up an all-night fare (Cruise), who offers Max $600 if he can bring him to several stops and get him to the airport in the morning. Things start getting complicated when a body drops out of a fourth-story window…
Screenings: April 17 7:00, 9:30, April 18 7:00, 9:30, April 19 3:00, 5:30
(2001, 157m) dir Michael Mann w/Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight. An account of the life of Cassius Clay (played by Smith) as he becomes the man we know as Muhammad Ali. Though Ali may at first appear out of step with the rest of Mann’s filmography, here he unlocks the second half of the…
Screenings: April 19 8:00, April 20 7:00, April 21 7:00
(2006, 132m) dir Michael Mann w/Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li. Based on the hit eighties TV show Miami Vice, for which Mann was the showrunner, the film follows detectives Crockett (Farrell) and Tubbs (Foxx) undercover. Dismissed by critics when it was released, the film deserves a second life for its action sequences alone. FRI/SAT…
Screenings: April 24 7:00, 9:45, April 25 7:00, 9:45, April 26 3:00, 5:45
(2009, 140m) dir Michael Mann w/Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Jason Clarke. John Dillinger (Depp) robs banks across the Midwest in the thirties. An up-and-coming FBI agent, Melvin Purvis, (Bale) scrambles to catch up. Mann’s meditations on criminality and law enforcement coalesce in this vast tale of the FBI’s encroaching tactics, the introduction of the Crime…
Screenings: April 26 8:30, April 27 7:00, April 28 7:00