Michael Mann

[Review] The Connection

If the gritty, excruciating milieu of William Friedkin’s The French Connection triggered a new direction in the career of lead actor Gene Hackman, then Cédric J...

[Cannes Review] The Shameless

There is something to be said about the satisfying catharsis from a pure melodrama -- a movie that is so earnest and excessive in service to its genre conventio...