THIEF

Showings

Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 1 Sat, Jul 16, 2022 9:30 PM

Description

A Tribute to James Caan

THIEF

Directed by Michael Mann

Saturday, July 16th at 9:30 PM

Members $10 | Public $15

The Cinema Arts Centre pays tribute to legendary James Caan with a rare big screen showing of one of his emblematic roles. The contemporary American auteur Michael Mann’s bold artistic sensibility was already fully formed when he burst out of the gate with Thief, his debut feature. Caan stars, in one of his most riveting performances, as a no-nonsense ex-con safecracker planning to leave the criminal world behind after one final diamond heist—but he discovers that escape is not as simple as he’d hoped. Finding hypnotic beauty in neon and rain-slick streets, sparks and steel, Thief effortlessly established the moody stylishness and tactile approach to action that would also define such later iconic entertainments from Mann as Miami ViceManhunter, and Heat. Mann used real thieves as technical advisors on the film and that Tangerine Dream soundtrack is a joy. Also starring Tuesday Weld and Willie Nelson(USA, 1981. 126 min., color, DCP | Dir. Michael Mann)

Still of James Caan in Michael Mann

Film poster for Michael Mann