In light of The LAMB’s Director of the Month I’ve decided to penn Mr. Mann vs. another very talented director. This is more or less one of the first times I’ve contributed to this foundation. It’s well worth it, though.

I won’t give an introduction, I’ll hand that over to the professionals:

“A student of London’s International Film School, Michael Mann began his career in the late 70s, writing for TV shows like “Starsky and Hutch” (1975). He directed his first film, the award-winning prison drama The Jericho Mile (1979) (TV), in 1979. He followed that in 1981 with his first theatrical release, Thief (1981) starring James Caan as a safe-cracker who falls under the spell of the mob. He followed with The Keep (1983), an adaptation ofF. Paul Wilson‘s novel about a mysterious force within a Nazi fortress. He hit it big in 1984, when he produced and created the long-running TV series “Miami Vice” (1984), which made Don Johnson a household name. He followed that up in 1986 with the underrated, lesser-known TV series, “Crime Story” (1986), and the thriller Manhunter(1986) a precursor of The Silence of the Lambs (1991). He spent the next few years involved in television, directing films like L.A. Takedown (1989) (TV) and producing films like the Emmy-winning “Drug Wars: The Camarena Story” (1990). In 1992, he returned to feature film with the box-office hit The Last of the Mohicans (1992), which starred Daniel Day-Lewis and Madeleine Stowe.”

Without further a due ….

Michael Mann famed to fantastic and hard-boiled crime capers

7 Example Films From Michael Mann:

Heat

The Insider

Collateral

Thief

The Last of the Mohicans

Ali

Public Enemies

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Sam Raimi's epic "Spiderman" series

7 Example Films From Sam Raimi:

Spiderman

The Evil Dead

For Love of the Game

A Simple Plan

Drag Me To Hell

Spiderman 2

Army of Darkness