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  1. Jun 4, 2024 · His name was Mike Nichols. When they next ran into each other, he reintroduced himself to her with a dramatic flourish that she kicked back to him with a matching flair; their spontaneous...

  2. Jun 10, 2024 · The 1976 Elaine May film follows Mikey (John Cassavettes) as he tries to corral his paranoid friend Nicky (Peter Falk) as Nicky tries to hide and flee from the mob in Philly after repping them off.

  3. Jun 3, 2024 · Before now there has never been a full-length biography of Elaine May, the icon known for being one-half of Nichols and May and the director of A New Leaf, The Heartbreak Kid, Mikey and Nicky, and the hilarious, unfairly maligned Ishtar.

    • Christopher Schobert
  4. 2 days ago · Mikey and Nicky captures masculinity from a female vantage that answers Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets (1973). Carol Grace’s sex scene traces a high school date rape by middle-aged men in ...

  5. Jun 5, 2024 · This week we cover the 1976 masterpiece by Elaine May, "Mikey & Nicky. This is the last part of our series on "Masculine Portraits by Female Directors." We begin the episode discussing our general thoughts and transition into telling the story of the film's fraught production.

  6. Jun 10, 2024 · Directing the 1976 crime caper “Mikey and Nicky,” she shot 1.4 million feet of film — 259 hours of raw footage — and then edited it for over a year. Paramount eventually sued her to turn over the film.

  7. May 31, 2024 · Part Three of our four part series on the works and legacy of Elaine May