The world of film has its auteurs and icons, and loyal viewers will line up to see a movie based on a director’s name alone. But the name of Mike Nichols guaranteed a film experience above almost all ...

More than a decade after his death, treasured American filmmaker Mike Nichols still inspires contemporary masters like Noah Baumbach. Writer-director Baumbach was honored for 30 years’ worth of ...

The Graduate is a milestone film (the third highest grossing movie ever) for Baby Boomers, who felt for the first time that Hollywood understood their generation and what it was striving to achieve.

A distraught young Mike Nichols is dabbing his eyes with a handkerchief and talking to a brisk and very efficient Elaine May. A few seconds into their improvised comedy chat, she announces: “I’m Miss ...

The new Mike Nichols film, r, is a boiling pot of lust, mistrust and double-dealing that we might take for outright soap opera or, in quite a few places, soft-core porn, were it not for the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. What do working girls want? According to the new musical “Working Girl,” based on Mike Nichols’ 1988 film, they ...