Sep 20th      
Heat**          

(US 1995)        

A professional bank robber leads one daring last raid from a Los Angeles bank under the watch of the hardened detective following him.
Mean, moody and slick cops and robbers game of cat-and-mouse, the sort of drama now (sadly) more comfortable on television than in the cinema, with all the cliches, violent action and foul language firmly in place, and plenty of good dramatic moments among a starry supporting cast, with two leading men who easily slip in to characteristic material.

Written and Directed by: Michael Mann.
Producers: Michael Mann, Art Linson.
Starring: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Diane Venora, Tom Sizemore, Amy Brennerman, Ashley Judd, Dennis Haysbert, Wes Studi, Mykelti Williamson, Natalie Portman, Tom Noonan.
Photography: Dante Spinotti.
Music: Elliot Goldenthal.

HEAT. An epic Warner Brothers 3-hour contextualizing of the sort of gangster picture that used to take half the length, but no less rewarding here, with two of the meanest looking actors of the modern era: instead of Cagney and Bogart, we have Pacino and De Niro.