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Heat
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Mon Nov 2
7 pm
None Heat at Doc Films - Max Palevsky Cinema
Inflating the cop and crook archetypes to an epic scale—and focusing, as always, on the honor and skills of true professionals—Heat director Michael Mann cast Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, two acting titans who had never shared a frame together (except for the overlapping time frames in The Godfather Part II) as ace detective and master thief, respectively. Their meeting is wonderfully low-key when it happens, but Mann is patient with the set-up. De Niro leads a crack team of thieves (Val Kilmer, Tom Sizemore, and Danny Trejo, among others) through an armored-car ambush that turns messy when a loose cannon opens fire on the security guards. When Pacino and his detective unit catch the scent, a cat-and-mouse game develops between the two men, concluding in a spectacular daylight bank-robbery attempt in downtown Los Angeles.
Doc Films - Max Palevsky Cinema Ida Noyes Hall - University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Inflating the cop and crook archetypes to an epic scale—and focusing, as always, on the honor and skills of true professionals—Heat director Michael Mann cast Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, two acting titans who had never shared a frame together (except for the overlapping time frames in The Godfather Part II) as ace detective and master thief, respectively. Their meeting is wonderfully low-key when it happens, but Mann is patient with the set-up. De Niro leads a crack team of thieves (Val Kilmer, Tom Sizemore, and Danny Trejo, among others) through an armored-car ambush that turns messy when a loose cannon opens fire on the security guards. When Pacino and his detective unit catch the scent, a cat-and-mouse game develops between the two men, concluding in a spectacular daylight bank-robbery attempt in downtown Los Angeles.
Updated 10/22/2009
