Watch: 77-Minute Career-Spanning BAM Talk With Michael Mann

Earlier this month, the Brooklyn Academy Of Music launched their “Heat & Vice: The Films of Michael Mann” retrospective, which featured among other things, a new cut of the director's cyber thriller "Blackhat" (which we detailed here), and an in-person conversation with the filmmaker (that we highlighted here). But if you couldn't be there yourself, we've got the next best thing.

The full, 77-minute video of Mann's career spanning talk has landed online, and it's one you'll want to roll up your sleeves and dive into. One of the most fascinating elements of the talk was Mann’s insights on his epic crime procedural, “Heat,” a movie that he saw as a huge challenge because he was trying to get the audience to empathize and invest in two opposing, but similar characters: the protagonist cop (Al Pacino) and the antagonist criminal (Robert De Niro), the only two characters, he said, that were "fully self-aware."

“It was exciting to me to do a film...