MANN AGED: RUMBLE IN THE MCU

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MANN AGED E6:  RUMBLE IN THE MCU 

Michael Mann is from Chicago and it has featured prominently in a number of projects. CRIME STORY (1986-1988) was a series that began IN Chicago, 1963, and was an early precursor to the serialized TV we have today. Dennis Farina and his mustache goes toe-to-toe with Anthony Denison as sadistic criminal Ray Luca, whose violent rise from Chicago hood to Las Vegas mogul is chronicled in S1. Mann directs the penultimate episode of season one, TOP OF THE WORLD, where Farina and his squad finally get enough juice to take down Luca. We talk the episode and the series itself and how important it is in not only Mann's subsequent work, but for TV in general.

ALI was Mann's intense collaboration with Will Smith as the legendary boxer and his most turbulent era ('64-'74) as he slowly actualizes himself as a person. Ali was a muted failure upon its 2001 release and Mann has returned to it with an immediate home video director's cut and a definitive, new cut in 2017, shortly after Ali's death.  It's a difficult movie to wrap your head around, thematically and narratively but the 2017 cut may fix those issues. *may*. We get into an argument about this one.

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