Thief (1981)

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Thief
by JimBell in JimBell Blog

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"Thief (1981) is a familiar story well told: A thief wants to go straight after he pulls one more job, and then things go awry. Going back a quarter century to Michael Mann’s first wide-release film reveals a good film-maker at work. Mann was inspired to go into film-making when he saw Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove. That film, he said, told an entire generation that it was possible to say something of artistic worth and simultaneously be commercially successful. In Thief, screenwriter and director Mann says: Meet this guy; it’ll shake up your stereotypical image of a thief because this guy has some great traits and great dreams as well as some tragic flaws. The cinematography is top-notch. The opening heist sequence shows various close-ups of breaking into the safe, meldi " [More]

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