Bruce Ditman (Thomas Breen photo)
How to Listen
First Segment
Guest: Bruce Ditman
0:00 - 40:19 - reviews of THIEF and BEVERLY HILLS COP
Second Segment
Guests: Lucy Gellman, Allan Appel
41:51 - 1:00:15 - review of FRANCOFONIA
Description
On today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen talks with New Haven's own Bruce Ditman about two films from the early 1980s that have had a profound influence on the way he watches, makes, and enjoys movies today. Michael Mann’s THIEF and Martin Brest’s BEVERLY HILLS COP have become classics of the heist and comedy genres respectively, but how do they hold up in 2016? For the second segment of the show, Tom talks with Allan Appel and Lucy Gellman FRANCOFONIA, a new meditative documentary by Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov about the timelessness of art and the history of the Louvre under Nazi occupation.
Video Links
Trailer for Thief (1981) by Michael Mann
Scene from Beverly Hills Copy (1984) by Martin Brest
Trailer for Francofonia (2016) by Alexander Sokurov