Shhh / Peaceful

Rewatching Thief. The movie seemed so wild and all over the place at the time but watching it now the story is tight. It's easy to see in its visual shorthand how Michael Mann subsequently adapted big screen moments for small screen TV. Early on there's a moment when a buyer jumps / is pushed from a tall building by mafia (probably). In modern film you'd be shown the buyer, his/her background story, how they were pushed, their last moments etc etc, all with needle drops, sweaty close-ups, callbacks to falling-to-their-deaths scenes in other films, with some sassy to-camera remark. Mann just shows a caller in a phone booth with heads of the crowd and ambulance lights in the background. Because that's all that matters.

Reading: Modiano, Pynchon.

Listening:
Miles Davis - 'In A Silent Way'
DJ Saint Barth - 'My Mine - Hypnotic Tango'
Astels - 'Drive to you'