'Heat' at 25: The Making of a Modern Classic
We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article. Warner Bros 'Heat' at 25: The Making of a Modern Classic Michael Mann’s genre-bending crime story was ignored at the Oscars but its reputation has since grown into a thriller for the ages When Heat came out on Boxing Day in 1995, it already carried some fairly hefty hype and heat of its own. For starters, the relentless bank heist scene, filmed on 5 th street in downtown Los Angeles, was going viral as a cinematic event in itself, largely thanks to a quirky pre-internet communication channel known as word of...