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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2      Non-Film Score Discussion: In Appreciation: MIKE NICHOLS (RIP)     1 2    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Oct 20, 2010 - 12:46 PM     By:   Gordon Reeves   (Member) Watch mighty Meryl’s astonished reaction when Mr. Hoffman reveals how one of the key moments in the above scene actually came to be! Oh, and Mr. Fitzgerald was famously wrong when he wrote “There are no second acts in American lives” ‘cause he didn’t live long enough to witness Mr. Nichols’ astonishing career summation combining his theatrical origins, harnessed film artistry and cumulative creativity in gathering a world-class ensemble in front and in back of the camera with his truly transcendent, moving, inspirational and gloriously human and HUMANE transcription of Tony Kushner’s And there hasn’t been an American director to so successfully influence the worlds of Broadway theatre as well as Hollywood in such a major manner since    Posted:   Oct 20, 2010 - 1:28 PM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) One of these days I have to explore the comedy stuff with Nichols and Elaine May. The pair seemed like the "eppy-tome" of hip and cool with their sophisticated way about them. I imagine that this would be the kind of LP in some late '50s-early '60s hipster's "pad." If Mike Nichols hadn't become a big time director, I have to wonder if they'd be remembered today; though I think they are in fact, forgotten. Now I know where Garrison Keillor gets his mother and son skits for his Prairie Home Companion radio show! the thief! In watching this bit, I'm impressed at how timeless Elaine May's delivery is. She's great!    Posted:   Oct 20, 2010 - 3:23 PM     By:   David Sones (Allardyce)   (Member) What a GREAT thread, and you get big points NeoT for including Heartburn in the pictorial.    Posted:   Oct 20, 2010 - 3:32 PM     By:   Grecchus   (Member) Neo, I swear I get more and more dizzy with each Appreciation. It's a loooonnng way to the final reel.    Posted:   Oct 20, 2010 - 4:15 PM     By:   Gordon Reeves   (Member) “So what are you saying? That I can dodge bullets AND Samuel Becket-ize those Appreciations, too?” “Well, is it your fault those Creatives were unplugged enough to have had such long careers? Still ... I hate bringing good folks bad news … but relax. There’s only The One left to do.”    Posted:   Oct 20, 2010 - 4:31 PM     By:   Grecchus   (Member) Always a class act Neo. That's entertainment!    Posted:   Oct 20, 2010 - 5:43 PM     By:   PhiladelphiaSon   (Member) He certainly was able to get the finest screen performance, ever, out of Dick and Liz. The Graduate, for me, has nothing to offer, other than Anne Bancroft's excellent performance. I love the team of Mike Nichols and Elaine May. He certainly has more hits than misses. I've always regretted that he never worked with his friend, Julie Andrews. He and she were slated to make a film version of Peter Shaffer's play, The Public Eye, for Universal, immediately after he was finished on Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? However, she was delayed on Hawaii, so the film got delayed, then cancelled, leaving Universal with an enormous price tag if they didn't use her in a film. Nichols went on to direct The Apple Tree, which he thought was to star Julie, but she declined the role, to do Thoroughly Modern Millie, for Universal. As far as I know, they never even came close to working together, again. Although, they will be appearing together at The Kennedy Center, in a 50th Anniversary celebration of JFK's inaugural, on January 20th.    Posted:   Oct 21, 2010 - 6:29 AM     By:   Gordon Reeves   (Member) My, My, MY, Ducky – Aren’t YOU the Fabulous Fount of Illuminatin’ Lore?!? Department: ‘preciate the kind, previously unknown update re the Nichols-Andrews creative connection, PhillyJay – intriguing to wonder What If and How It Woulda Turned Out if those two schedules had been able to cinematically mesh ... and how definitively different the outcome contrasted with what eventually did come forth, vis-a-vis Oh, and we’re awfully glad to assume Mr. Nichols never puts you immediately to sleep ala summa our favorites (so there, nyahhhhh).    Posted:   Oct 22, 2010 - 8:56 AM     By:   PhiladelphiaSon   (Member) They were friends from her earliest days in New York. Of course, he co-wrote her television special, Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall; and, they appeared together at LBJ's Inaugural Gala at the National Guard Armory, along with Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev, Alfred Hitchcock, Bobby Darin, Carol Channing, Woody Allen, Carol Burnett, Harry Belafonte, Ann Margret, Elaine May, Johnny Carson, Woody Allen and Barbra Streisand.    Posted:   Nov 19, 2011 - 1:48 PM     By:   Gordon Reeves   (Member) What Goes into Greatness – and What Doesn’t Department: This is a perfectly FASCINATING glimpse into what Mr. Nichols’ breakthrough film (aside from the not-to-be-overlooked aspect twas also his first) with equally insightfully commentaries from Edward Albee and other seminal creative participants. And you’ll never guess who they originally wanted for Martha – had they managed to hook her and their other original choice for George, let’s just say Classic Hollywood would’ve had another heyday into the New. [ This UTube is no longer available ] While this equally hypnotic archival treasure spotlights Ms. Dennis’s screen test opposite no less than Roddy McDowall. Completing our trinity (sorree, couldn’t resist ) is this interview with the director contemporaneously adjacent the original release … [ And neither, alas, is this one ] Who sez what goes on behind-the-scenes aren’t the equal of the fireworks in fronta the camera?!?    Posted:   Jan 8, 2013 - 5:36 PM     By:   Gordon Reeves   (Member) YO, Chris Department:    Posted:   Jan 8, 2013 - 8:29 PM     By:   Christopher Kinsinger   (Member) Well, neo...I'm a bit late to the party. Just made it here. I've spent the last three hours pouring over this magnificent thread of yours! THANK YOU, neo! ...NOW I understand... (You know.) You amaze me, man. I mean, you really do amaze me.    Posted:   Nov 20, 2014 - 4:08 PM     By:   Gordon Reeves   (Member) Not since Elia Kazan towered over the twin Olympian perches of both theatre and film has anyone even remotely come close, let alone drew even and fuhgeddabout eclipsing that enormous legacy: until Mr. Nichols ...    Posted:   Nov 20, 2014 - 9:37 PM     By:   Christopher Kinsinger   (Member) …and I'm back once again to appreciate your appreciation, neo. Thank you so much for this wonderful tribute!    Posted:   Nov 21, 2014 - 6:03 PM     By:   PhiladelphiaSon   (Member) Nichols wrote the script for this special and co-wrote this opening number. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyTBYlRR3H0    Posted:   Nov 22, 2014 - 1:33 PM     By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member) My god does Natalie portman have a great ass! bruce ps i already paid tribute to the man in another thread    Posted:   Nov 22, 2014 - 1:35 PM     By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member) MN has the distinction of directing the last film that had an Ennio morricone score i like anuf to buy! WOLF! brm    Posted:   Nov 23, 2014 - 10:11 AM     By:   Gordon Reeves   (Member) His final Film masterpeace ...    Posted:   Apr 22, 2017 - 12:46 PM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) For its 50th anniversary, THE GRADUATE is in theatres this week. Thankfully, it's playing at a theatre near me. The film remains one of the greatest cinematic experiences I've ever had--Nichols' masterpiece, and a masterpiece of American cinema.    Posted:   Apr 23, 2017 - 8:16 PM     By:   Howard L   (Member) Per other thread, it was a whole new experience seeing it tonight and I'm talking a palpable greater appreciation for the film's direction. In addition, the onslaught of yucks the first third of the film later gave way to stark sobriety over the serious damage inflicted by the affair. I must have been conscious of this reaction before, I'm unsure, but it truly came across on the big screen. I'm thinking of Benjamin's cavalier response to distraught Mr. Robinson in particular. Ooh ouch in that moment you're a fool, Braddock, and not just for love. The long takes also impressed to a degree greater than before. Little wonder that Nichols hired seasoned stage actors.     Non-Film Score Discussion: In Appreciation: MIKE NICHOLS (RIP)    < 1 2  > >>  Go to page:  1 2   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2

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