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☆ I’ve Written About Cars for Over 30 Years. Here’s Why ‘Ferrari’ Is the First Great Car Movie
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Dan Neil | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

MAXIMUM FERRARI In a scene from director Michal Mann’s ‘Ferrari,’ Piero Taruffi (played by Patrick Dempsey) drives his 315 S to victory in the 1957 Mille Miglia, the famous 1,000-mile road race around Italy. Photo: Eros Hoagland/NEONIT’S 1957 AND ENZO FERRARI (Adam Driver) is running late. Director Michael Mann’s concours-quality “Ferrari,” opening in December, finds the 59-year-old Il Commendatore in midlife crisis. The Great Engineer has a second family—including an illegitimate son, Piero—an empty bank account and an estranged wife/business partner, Laura (Penélope Cruz). She’s waiting at home with a Beretta.

Persons: Michal Mann’s ‘ Ferrari, ’ Piero Taruffi, Patrick Dempsey, Mille Miglia, Eros Hoagland, ENZO FERRARI, Adam Driver, Michael Mann’s, Piero —, Laura, Penélope Cruz Organizations: FERRARI, Peugeot Locations: Italy

☆ At Venice Film Festival, Trapped Women and Controlling Men
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Jessica Kiang | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The press room at the Venice Film Festival has to be the most beautiful film festival press room in the world. On a clear day — which it almost always is — you imagine that, were it not for the curvature of the earth, you could see forever. Or at least to Croatia. Some of these men were towering real-life figures. In both these cases — and arguably to the detriment of both well-made but strangely evanescent films — the portrayal of genius pales in comparison to the portrait of a woman who supported and nurtured that genius, even when it threatened to engulf her.

Persons: hunched, Eugenio Miozzi, Penélope Cruz, Michael Mann’s “ Ferrari ”, Adam Driver, Carey Mulligan, Leonard Bernstein’s, Felicia, “ Maestro, ”, Bradley Cooper Locations: Venice, Croatia

☆ ‘The Last Campaign’ Review: The Battles of Sherman and Geronimo
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Andrew R. Graybill | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

That, however, is considerably more overlap than between the protagonists featured in H.W. Brands’s latest book, “The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America.” Despite their twin billing, the general and the Apache leader do not cross paths in the book, and apparently never met. Moreover, while “Heat” remains original and taut (despite its nearly three-hour runtime), “The Last Campaign” is predictable and baggy, following an established path now beaten to dust by generations of professional and popular historians. At first blush, author and subject seem well matched. Mr. Brands is a talented storyteller, with a novelist’s feel for pacing and detail.

☆ A College Film Screening Stirred Michael Mann’s Desire to Make Movies
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Marc Myers | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Michael Mann, 79, is a writer and director whose films include “Thief,” “Heat,” “Last of the Mohicans,” “Insider,” “Ali” and “Collateral,” and as a producer on “The Aviator,” “Hancock,” and “Ford v Ferrari.” He is the author of the new novel “Heat 2” (William Morrow). He spoke with Marc Myers. Just before my father shipped out to Europe in 1944 to fight in World War II, we were photographed together by my grandmother.

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