IN 2017, AUSTRALIAN FILM JOURNALIST BLAKE HOWARD CAME UP WITH THE IDEA FOR A PODCAST ABOUT MICHAEL MANN’S 1995 CRIME OPUS HEAT. EXAMINING THE FILM CHRONOLOGICALLY, IN 60-SECOND INCREMENTS, THE APTLY TITLED “ONE HEAT MINUTE” SAW HOWARD, AND A GUEST STAR, SPENDING ANYWHERE FROM 15 MINUTES TO WELL OVER AN HOUR DISSECTING THE SELECTED MINUTE. EACH DISCUSSION USED THE MINUTE AT HAND AS A SPRINGBOARD TO EXPLORE MANY ELEMENTS OF THE FILM, AS WELL AS MICHAEL MANN’S BROADER BODY OF WORK AND HIS IMPACT ON CINEMA.
WITH MORE THAN 170 EPISODES RELEASED SO FAR, THE LINE-UP OF GUESTS INCLUDES FAMOUS FILMMAKERS (JOE LYNCH, DANTE SPINOTTI, PHIL HAY, ABE FORSYTHE), WRITERS (REED FARREL COLEMAN, JORDAN HARPER), EDUCATORS, MAJOR CRITICS (MANOHLA DARGIS, BILGE EBIRI, MATT ZOLLER SEITZ, WALTER CHAW) AND FILM JOURNALISTS (KRIS TAPLEY, CHRIS EVANGELISTA). WITH ONLY A FEW REMAINING EPISODES, HOWARD USED HIS FINAL LIVE SHOW RECORDING AT THE 2019 SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL TO ANNOUNCE THAT MICHAEL MANN, THE LEGENDARY MASTERMIND DIRECTOR, SCREENWRITER AND PRODUCER BEHIND THE FILM, WOULD BE THE FINAL CRESCENDO OF THE INCREDIBLY EXTENSIVE YET LIMITED SERIES.
“I could not have imagined in my wildest dreams that ‘One HEAT Minute’ would include Michael Mann himself as our final guest. For Michael Mann fans, there’s information about HEAT here that’s literally nowhere else. For fans of ‘One HEAT Minute,’ this is the most perfect ending imaginable. I’m still struggling to grasp that it even happened.” said Howard.
“I’m honoured by this genuine tribute to the film. The passion and enthusiasm that Blake and his guests – artists, cinephiles, film historians – showed to HEAT is extraordinary, and their appreciation of it, humbling,” said Mann.
HEAT, MICHAEL MANN’S 1995 CRIME OPUS DELIVERED THE FIRST ON-SCREEN ENCOUNTER BETWEEN AMERICAN CINEMATIC TITANS ROBERT DE NIRO AND AL PACINO. WHEN AN ARMOURED CAR ROBBERY GOES WRONG, PROFESSIONAL THIEF NEIL MCCAULEY (DE NIRO) AND HIS CREW ATTRACT THE ATTENTION OF L.A.’S ROBBERY HOMICIDE DIVISION AND DETECTIVE VINCENT HANNAH (PACINO). THESE OBSESSIVE PROFESSIONALS, ON BOTH SIDES OF THE LAW, CONDUCT AN UNRELENTING CAT-AND-MOUSE CHASE THROUGH THE SPRAWLING INDUSTRIAL CITYSCAPE OF L.A.
“When you’ve done 121 hours excruciating hours about Heat, only then are you just on the same level as One Heat Minute. ”
— Maria Lewis - Award-Winning Author and Screenwriter
“Blake Howard’s Cine-essential ‘One HEAT Minute’ podcast may be the most delightfully detailed dissection of a single film since Roger Ebert’s shot-by-shot explication of CITIZEN KANE, and possibly more entertaining! It’s one of the few podcasts in recent memory that could stand the test of time to become a valuable resource for film theorists and casual movie lovers alike. And to have Director Mann, himself, for the final episode to discuss his classic film is just like the final shot in HEAT....the perfect ending to an epic journey.
— Joe Lynch - Director of POINT BLANK & MAYHEM
“It’s a brilliant idea, relentlessly executed with charm, wit, and enthusiasm. Every time I listen to it, I feel the need to rush back to my TV and watch the whole movie again.”
— Bilge Ebiri - New York Magazine
“That’s a GREAT idea”
— Christopher Nolan Director of THE DARK KNIGHT TRILOGY
What makes One Heat Minute distinct, though, is the sheer, unfiltered sincerity with which Howard conducts the proceedings. Howard is a true believer in the power of film and this film specifically. Heat is his means of bringing people together, accessing their worldviews, and cultivating a sense of solidarity. And he does so with enviable conviction. “Sometimes you get this perfection, you know,” Howard told KQED’s Carly Severn in a September 2018 interview. “It’s like, it was made to be examined. It was made for me to have a conversation about.”
One Heat Minute Turned the Movie Heat Into a Religious Experience By Nicholas Quah
One HEAT Minute: Episode #165 - TRAVIS WOODS (WRITER/EDITOR FOR BRIGHT WALL /DARK ROOM, CONTRIBUTOR FOR CINEPHILIA & BEYOND)
ONE HEAT MINUTE is the podcast examining Michael Mann’s 1995 crime opus HEAT minute by minute. It’s the 165th minute (2:44:00 - 2:45:00) - host Blake Howard joins staff writer Bright Wall/ Dark Room, contributor for Cinephilia & Beyond and writer about town Travis Woods. Thankfully Travis briefly takes the lead on this episode as the gravity of the moment nearly becomes too overwhelming to discuss. Blake and Travis go back to nature as it were and unpack this singular ending from a singular filmmaker.
BONUS One HEAT Minute: “Last Dance, with EASY FINANCING” feat. Luke Buckmaster, Garth Franklin and Stu Coote
ONE HEAT MINUTE is the podcast examining Michael Mann’s 1995 crime opus HEAT minute by minute. In this bonus episode of ONE HEAT MINUTE we bring back the original three guests of the show - Luke Buckmaster, Garth Franklin and Stu Coote - to discuss the minutes they’d wished they’d been able to talk about. We discuss Captain Hydration, the ever-present hazards of walking your doggie, and the sit down at Kate Mantilini’s for a second helping of the centrepiece scene of the film (in its entirety).
One HEAT Minute: Episode #164 - CRAIG MATHIESON (FILM AND T.V. CRITIC FOR THE SUNDAY AGE AND BINGE-R)
ONE HEAT MINUTE is the podcast examining Michael Mann’s 1995 crime opus HEAT minute by minute. It’s the 164th minute (2:43:00 - 2:44:00) - host Blake Howard joins film and television critic with Fairfax Media and creator of BINGE-R Mr Craig Mathieson. Blake and Craig discuss the realisation that it would always end this way, the “Peckinpah” moment, and focusing on an untethered Neil, and the guy who doesn’t make mistakes, makes a mistake.
One HEAT Minute: Episode #163 - WALTER CHAW (SENIOR FILM CRITIC FILM FREAK CENTRAL & AUTHOR)
ONE HEAT MINUTE is the podcast examining Michael Mann’s 1995 crime opus HEAT minute by minute. It’s the 163rd minute (2:42:00 - 2:43:00) - host Blake Howard joins senior film critic for award-winning webzine FilmFreakCentral.net, author, and one of the world’s premiere film critics - Walter Chaw. Blake and Walter discuss the jungian shadow play, that HEAT is at its best when it’s dealing with the things that bond men together (whatever form they take), Michael Mann’s unromantic portrayal of violence, HEAT as something to admire rather than to like and finally Ashley Judd being at her "Judd-ist."
One HEAT Minute: Episode #162 - REED FARREL COLEMAN (NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR & CO-WRITER OF UPCOMING HEAT PREQUEL/SEQUEL NOVEL)
ONE HEAT MINUTE is the podcast examining Michael Mann’s 1995 crime opus HEAT minute by minute. It’s the 162nd minute (2:41:00 - 2:42:00) - host Blake Howard joins New York Times-bestselling author of thirty novels, a four-time recipient of the Shamus Award for Best PI Novel of the Year, a winner of the Audie, Macavity, Barry, and Anthony Awards and he has been signed by film director Michael Mann to write the prequel novel to the movie “Heat” - Reed Farrel Coleman. Blake and Reed discuss that this is the physical expression of the face to face meeting in the coffee shop. In the coffee shop they talk about it, in this minute they live it. And finally he talks about the process of writing alongside Michael Mann.
One HEAT Minute: Episode #161 - ANDY HAZEL (JOURNALIST, CULTURAL CAPITAL & TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN Podcasts)
ONE HEAT MINUTE is the podcast examining Michael Mann’s 1995 crime opus HEAT minute by minute. It’s the 161st minute (2:40:00 - 2:41:00) - host Blake Howard joins actor, ARIA-nominated musician, journalist, editorial assistant at The Saturday Paper and the producer and host of Melbourne film podcasts Cultural Capital and Twin Peaks: The Return; Andy Hazel. Blake and Andy discuss the frantic nature of the final pursuit, Pacino discarding the shot gun mirroring Neil discarding the tie at the hotel, the sense that this has all been pre-ordained and so much more.
One HEAT Minute: Episode #160 - K. AUSTIN COLLINS (FILM CRITIC FOR VANITY FAIR)
ONE HEAT MINUTE is the podcast examining Michael Mann’s 1995 crime opus HEAT minute by minute. It’s the 160th minute (2:39:00 - 2:40:00) - host Blake Howard joins film critic for Vanity Fair - K. Austin Collins. Blake and Kameron discuss that HEAT is a profound romance, feeling so small in this alien aeronautical world and Vincent’s huge risk of baiting Neil with Waingro so close to the airport.
One HEAT Minute: Episode #159 - TOM KANE (FILMMAKER - PRIZZI'S HONOR, TAXI DRIVER, KRAMER VS KRAMER)
ONE HEAT MINUTE is the podcast examining Michael Mann’s 1995 crime opus HEAT minute by minute. It’s the 159th minute (2:38:00 - 2:39:00) - host Blake Howard joins a filmmaker who contributed to such masterworks as Prizzi’s Honor, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and academy award-winning Kramer vs. Kramer - Tom Kane. Blake and Tom discuss taking a shotgun like it’s a “fucking shopping cart,” meeting Al Pacino in a Lee Strasberg directing class and De Niro staying inside “to keep the character going.”
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One HEAT Minute: Episode #158 - CONNOR RATLIFF (IMPROV COMIC, ACTOR [ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK/THE MARVELOUS MRS MAISEL], FILMMAKER)
ONE HEAT MINUTE is the podcast examining Michael Mann’s 1995 crime opus HEAT minute by minute. It’s the 158th minute (2:37:00 - 2:38:00) - host Blake Howard joins improvisational comic (ASSSSCAT/The George Lucas Show), actor (Orange is the New Black, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel) and filmmaker - Connor Ratliff. Blake and Connor discuss this treasure of a minute that distils Neil’s ethos, a willingness to walk out on everything when you spot the heat around the corner.
One HEAT Minute: Episode #157 - JOANNA DI MATTIA (FILM CRITC - SENSES OF CINEMA, KILL YOUR DARLINGS, THE MONTHLY, THE AGE)
ONE HEAT MINUTE is the podcast examining Michael Mann’s 1995 crime opus HEAT minute by minute. It’s the 157th minute (2:36:00 - 2:37:00) - host Blake Howard joins the joyously obsessive award-winning film critic for many publications including Senses of Cinema, Kill Your Darlings, The Age and Fandor - Joanna Di Mattia. Blake and Joanna discuss the great physicality in Pacino’s intuitive performance, the coalescence of themes in this minute and being at the precipice of the climax.
One HEAT Minute: Episode #156 - Q.V HOUGH (EDITOR OF VAGUE VISAGES)
ONE HEAT MINUTE is the podcast examining Michael Mann’s 1995 crime opus HEAT minute by minute. It’s the 156th minute (2:35:00 - 2:36:00) - host Blake Howard joins Vague Visages’ founding editor and freelance video essayist/writer - Q.V (Quinn) Hough. Blake and Quinn discuss the callbacks and echoes in the concluding threads of Eady’s story, the strain of being minutes away from realising the fantasy, and making a shoutout to Jimmy McElwain and being reminded of Caravaggio’s beautiful and profane in the framing and lighting.
One HEAT Minute: Episode #155 - ABE FORSYTHE (WRITER/DIRECTOR DOWN UNDER & LITTLE MONSTERS)
ONE HEAT MINUTE is the podcast examining Michael Mann's 1995 crime opus HEAT minute by minute. It's the 155th minute (2:34:00 -2:35:00) - host Blake Howard joins writer/director of DOWN UNDER and LITTLE MONSTERS Abe Forsythe. Blake discovers that Abe has been following along since the show's inception, Abe's changing conception of the visual language of HEAT after viewing this minute, spotting a glorious rubber maglite and encouraging all you folks out there to get your hands on DOWN UNDER, by any means necessary.
One HEAT Minute: Episode #154 - JEN JOHANS (FILM CRITIC AND THREE-TIME NATIONAL AWARD-WINNING SCRIBE)
ONE HEAT MINUTE is the podcast examining Michael Mann's 1995 crime opus HEAT minute by minute. It's the 154th minute (2:33:00 -2:34:00) - host Blake Howard joins three-time National Award-Winning Scribe, Screenwriter, Bibliophile, and Film Critic at Film Intuition - Jen Johans. Blake discovers just how essential Jen is to the One Heat Minute journey when she confesses that she retroactively attempted to save Neil by messaging her uncover cop friend to ensure that Vincent's shooting was ethical.
One HEAT Minute: Episode #153 - JON ABRAMS (EDITOR OF DAILY GRINDHOUSE, WRITER AND CARTOONIST)
ONE HEAT MINUTE is the podcast examining Michael Mann's 1995 crime opus HEAT minute by minute. It's the 153rd minute (2:32:00 -2:33:00) - host Blake Howard joins New York-based writer, cartoonist, committed 'cinemaniac,' and editor of Daily Grindhouse, Jon Abrams. Blake and Jon discuss the magical evolution of the scene as you experience its overwhelming tragedy gaining potency with age.
One HEAT Minute: Episode #152 - PASQUALE BUBA (RIP) - EDITOR OF HEAT
ONE HEAT MINUTE is the podcast examining Michael Mann's 1995 crime saga HEAT, minute by minute. It's the 152nd minute (2:31:00-2:32:00) - host Blake Howard joins one of the editors of HEAT, and editor for the legendary George A. Romero, the dearly departed Pasquale "Pat" Buba. Blake was honoured to speak to Pat in one of his final interviews; where we dive into his favourite scene in the film, how he came to the project and finally his wife Zilla's reaction to HEAT at the premiere that perfectly encapsulates his enduring legacy. (Please note that this will be reposted in chronological order once we catch up to the minute. )
One HEAT Minute: Episode #151 - GARTH FRANKLIN (DARK HORIZONS) & STU COOTE (THE SINNER FILES)
ONE HEAT MINUTE is the podcast examining Michael Mann's 1995 L.A crime epic HEAT, minute by minute. It's the 151st minute (2:30:00 -2:31:00) - host Blake Howard joins two friends of OHM - movie website original gangster Garth Franklin and co-host of The Sinner Files, Stu Coote. Blake, Garth and Stu discuss being deep inside the Airport Hilton, cops needing second jobs to survive in L.A, Neil's back to the wall and so many wonderful digressions.
One HEAT Minute: Episode #150 - Jordan Harper (EDGAR-WINNING AUTHOR OF "SHE RIDES SHOTGUN" & SCREENWRITER)
ONE HEAT MINUTE is the podcast examining Michael Mann's 1995 crime opus HEAT minute by minute. It's the 150th minute (2:29:00 -2:30:00) - host Blake Howard joins producer and television writer of "The Mentalist," "Gotham," and the "L.A Confidential" pilot and Edgar-winning author of "She Rides Shotgun" Jordan Harper. Blake and Jordan discuss inexplicably bad "brass checks," fantasise about custom HEAT merchandise before marvelling at Neil's ability to sneak without sneaking at all.
One HEAT Minute: Episode #149 - DYLAN SCHUCK (HOST THE WATCH AND TALK + WRITER THR & MANDATORY)
ONE HEAT MINUTE is the podcast examining Michael Mann's 1995 crime opus HEAT minute by minute. It's the 149th minute (2:28:00 -2:29:00) - host Blake Howard joins podcaster for The Watch and Talk and occasional writer for THR and Mandatory - Dylan Schuck. Dylan dubs Blake the "cab driver that only talks about HEAT," and that's all you need to know.
One HEAT Minute: Episode #148 - CARLY SEVERN (WRITER KQED & HOST OF THE COOLER PODCAST)
ONE HEAT MINUTE is the podcast examining Michael Mann's 1995 crime opus HEAT minute by minute. It's the 148th minute (2:27:00 -2:28:00) - host Blake Howard joins pop culture writer for KQED (San Francisco's NPR/PBS station) and host of KQED's weekly pop culture podcast The Cooler - Carly Severn. Blake and Carly discuss being adrift in the wake of ONE HEAT MINUTE, debating De Niro's facial expression progression frame by frame, and a love affair with HEAT that traces back to Carly's teenage bedroom. Take a listen, keep her runnin'
One HEAT Minute: Episode #147 - MATT ZOLLER SEITZ (TV + FILM CRITIC VULTURE + NEW YORK MAGAZINE; EDITOR AT LARGE ROGEREBERT.COM; AND CO AUTHOR OF THE SOPRANO SESSIONS)
ONE HEAT MINUTE is the podcast examining Michael Mann's 1995 L.A crime opus HEAT minute by minute. It's the 147th minute (2:26:00 -2:27:00) - host Blake Howard joins Co-author of THE SOPRANOS SESSIONS, TV and film critic for Vulture and Editor-at-Large of RogerEbert.com, Matt Zoller Seitz. Blake and Matt discuss that Robert De Niro is absolutely at his best in silent close-ups when he's thinking; Matt's theory that whoever gets to say the title of the movie is who the movie is about; and Michael Mann's fascination with people who cannot escape the traps of their own conditioning.