Ferrari
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'Ferrari': The Need for Speed … and Beauty February 09, 2024
Michael Mann is famous for crime dramas like Thief (1981), Heat (1995), and Collateral (2004) that suggest that only criminals can be free, since the rest of us are constantly bossed around. There is something of the Old Left as well as Romanticism i...
How the Cars in Michael Mann's 'Ferrari' Came to Life January 26, 2024
If you love cars and you dig racing, it’s pretty clear from several moments into Ferrari that this Michael Mann epic is one of the greatest car movies ever made. You have a stellar performance from Adam Driver, who plays Enzo Ferrari in midlife, when...
The Secret Fuel That Makes “Ferrari” Such a Triumph January 09, 2024
Half of life is spent dealing with details: the numbers, the paperwork, the dozens of discussions upon which any shared activity, professional or private, is based. (The other half of life is dealing with the results.) Many filmmakers leave such prac...
The ‘Unresolved’ Tensions at the End of 'Ferrari' January 05, 2024
To those of us who are not racing-history aficionados, and to whom the catastrophic events of the 1957 Mille Miglia are not well known, the ostensible climax of Michael Mann’s Ferrari might come as quite a shock. Not just because of the carnage in fu...
Michael Mann’s Need for Speed January 04, 2024
Death haunts Ferrari. Michael Mann’s new film confines itself to three months in Modena, Italy, in the summer of 1957, a crucial period in the life of Enzo Ferrari and the automobile company that bears his name. Ferrari (Adam Driver) and his wife, La...
