Miami Vice
Films that shaped it
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Films like Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samouraï [1967] and Army of Shadows [1969] or the works of Gillo Pontecorvo, particularly The Battle of Algiers [1966], have always been touchstones for me in terms of creating that level of immersive realism, especially when approaching something like Miami Vice.
Films it shaped
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He raves about Michael Mann's Miami Vice, watching it over and over. A new vision taking shape.
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When I started with digital filmmaking with Oslo, August 31st in 2011, I was trying to figure out how to work with it cinematically, how to make it feel tangible. I think Michael Mann is definitely one of the few who really mastered it, especially in Collateral and Miami Vice.
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Moonlight Atlas note
Barry Jenkins has cited Claire Denis's Beau Travail as a foundational influence, the film that showed him how to use the body, light, and music as primary storytelling tools rather than dialogue. Moonlight's fragmented structure, its use of color as emotion, its willingness to let silence carry meaning, these are lessons from Denis and Wong Kar-wai. Beau Travail is streaming on Criterion Channel and is one of the most beautiful films ever made.
