THIEF (45th Anniversary/4K Restoration) – January 17
THE KEEP (4K Restoration) – January 24
MIAMI VICE (20th Anniversary) – January 31
Michael Mann-uary is a celebration of one of cinema’s great stylists. A four-time Academy Award® nominee, Mann has crafted a meticulous filmography filled with celebrated antiheroes and paradoxical procedurals. From the neon-soaked streets of Miami Vice to the neo-noir heist thriller Thief, and the dream-like ambiance of The Keep, Mann’s films pulse with atmosphere.
An auteur whose influence continues to shape the look and feel of contemporary cinema, this retrospective honors Mann’s unmatched command of the silver screen with a trio of anniversaries and restorations.
Thief:
45th Anniversary Screening! 4K Director’s Cut!
Contemporary American auteur Michael Mann’s bold artistic sensibility was already fully formed when he burst out of the gate with Thief, his debut feature.
James Caan (The Godfather) stars, in one of his most riveting performances, as a no-nonsense ex-con planning to leave the criminal world behind after one last score—but he discovers that escape is not as simple as he’d hoped.
Finding hypnotic beauty in neon and rain-slick streets, sparks and steel, Thief effortlessly established the moody stylishness, tactile approach, and drama that would also define such later iconic Mann films as Heat, The Insider, Ali, and The Last of the Mohicans.
1981, 124 minutes, USA, Directed by Michael Mann, Rated R
“Debut features are rarely this confident and accomplished, much less such a perfect blueprint of what to expect from a filmmaker down the line.”
– Scott Tobias, THE DISSOLVE
“Brutal and precision-made, Thief is a high-tech crime movie that closes in on its subject with such relentless purpose that it approaches abstraction.”
– David Ansen, NEWSWEEK
“One of the most confident directorial debuts of its era, the product of an unprecedented amount of research and preparation.”
– Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, THE A.V. CLUB
“A philosophical thriller filled with modernist cool.”
– Geoff Andrew, TIME OUT
