Mikey and Nicky (May, 1976): Garden Cinema, 3.30pm
The screening on Saturday the 2nd of November will include a welcome by season programmer Alice Pember and an introduction to the movie by film journalist Christina Newland.
Chicago Reader review:
Elaine May’s 1976 film, dumped by Paramount on first release, is one of
the most innovative, engaging, and insightful films of that turbulent
era of American moviemaking. John Cassavetes is a small-time hood on the
run from a powerful syndicate boss; he calls on boyhood friend Peter
Falk to help him in his hour of need, but he can’t be sure of his
loyalties—Falk works for the same outfit. May allows the improvisational
rhythms of her actors to establish the surface realism of the film, but
beneath the surface lies a tight, poetically stylized screenplay that
leads the two characters, as they pass a fearful, frenzied night
together, back over the range of their lives, from infancy to adulthood.
At every step May tests the two men’s affection against the conflicting
demands of making a living and finding a measure of security in a
brutal, unstable world; what emerges is a profound, unsentimental
portrait of male friendship—and of its ultimate impossibility.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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