Heat - Nick James (BFI Film Classics) Documentary - Essay by critic Geoffrey

- Essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien

- Video essay on novelist and Viy author Mykola Hohol

A hired guide—the Stalker—leads a writer and a professor into the heart of the Zone

William Dafoe

Cast includes: Emily Watson

Heat - Nick James (BFI Film Classics) Documentary - Essay by critic Geoffrey'Heat' by Nick James (BFI Film Classics 112 page paperback) For Nick James, the pleasures and virtues of Michael Mann's operatic 1995 heist thriller, Heat, are mixed and complex. Its precise compositions and minimalist style are entangled with a particular kind of extravagant bombast. And while its vision of male teamwork is richly compelling it comes close to glorifying machismo. But these complexities only add to the interest of this hugely