Throughout Closer, we make eye contact with different characters, through mirrors, through cameras, through watching them watch others. Read More
Angels in America belongs in a psalter—not because of its spiritual rambling, but because of its poetry. Read More
Mike Nichols’ Wit puts death center stage and never pretends otherwise. Read More
The Birdcage's script, direction, and performances afford a dignity and completeness to Albert and Armand’s relationship. Read More
No one thing pushed me over. I’d been on the brink for awhile. Read More
How can it be fun for you if I don’t want it? Read More
Chris & Elizabeth Cantwell, discuss one of the most legendary films of the 1960s. Read More
Taylor and Burton’s physical awareness of each other is palpable, moment by moment. They calibrate their positions and postures to and against each other, playing off what each can anticipate the other will do. Read More
What’s so magical about Nichols and May is that they don’t have a straight man or a funny man. They’re both and they’re neither: they’re everything. Read More
Mike Nichols spent a lifetime telling stories, in one form or another. Read More