INT: Michael Mann

Michael Mann's newest epic, PUBLIC ENEMIES, is released today and he could not have cast three more brilliant performers. The film stars Johnny Depp as 1930's bank robber and folk hero John Dillinger, Marion Cotillard as his moll Billie Frechette and Christian Bale as Melvin Purvis, the FBI agent who hunts Dillinger. We got to talk to Mann about the film, shooting in HD, and picking the soundtrack. Damn, this man can talk! Michael Mann You've made some classic modern day gangster films. When you went to do the 1930's, were you mindful of films like HEAT and trying to avoid any comparisons...? Well I don't exactly understand the question. I was mindful of Heat in one regard, and that is that I wouldn't have... I'll put it another way: I elected to tell a story that is about what starts with what's Dillinger thinking in the... [read full story]                    

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