‘Miami Vice’: Quintessentially Michael Mann At 15 Years

Early on in “Thief,” Michael Mann’s 1981 feature debut, James Caan’s Frank stares out at a body of water enveloped by a sky that seems to go on forever.

He’s just returned from another successful heist in Mann’s subterranean underworld, and he wants out.

His life of crime is no life at all.

He’s stuck in purgatory, confined to neon-drenched streets where the line between life and death is nonexistent.Continue reading ‘Miami Vice’: Quintessentially Michael Mann At 15 Years at The Playlist.

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