Listicles
10 Great Movie Music Moments
by Wade Sheeler There are those moments in a good movie, very fleeting, when direction, plot and music all meld to deliver a message that is such a pure hybrid that no other medium could […]
Mike Nichols
Movies
WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? AT 50
At first, the studio wanted Bette Davis. But no, that wouldn’t have worked; audiences could expect cruelty and hysteria from an actress who had proven herself both bitch and beauty queen. After seeing her sit […]
Movies
B-Roll: Mike Nichols’ CATCH-22 (1970) and the Perils of Literary Adaptation
B Roll is a weekly column that digs into the deeper cuts and lesser-known films from legendary directors–the good, the bad, and the awesome. This week, Our Nathanael Hood is not impressed with Mike Nichols’ 1970 […]
Movies
Prize Wide Shut: Mike Nichols’ THE FORTUNE (1975)
In their attempt to wheedle the money out of a sanitary napkin heiress (Stockard Channing in her film debut), Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson jump into the roles of befuddled, sometimes outsmarted, and pathetic men […]