The film opens with Nicky (Cassavetes) holed up in a flophouse hotel, itching with paranoia and convinced his mob bosses have a hit out on him. He calls his fellow gangster and lifelong best friend ...

The elusive writer-director gave a rare interview at NYC's Metrograph, during which she explained how the film disappeared from the editing room and wound up in a surgeon's garage. Actress, comedian, ...

(Rewind): Elaine May’s genius goes beyond her Tony-winning performance in “The Waverly Gallery.” The four movies she wrote and directed between 1971 and 1987 are among the strongest Hollywood films of ...

The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene has to offer. Elaine May’s Mikey and Nicky (1976) is a tragic love story ...

The greatest film John Cassavetes never made features the man himself, along with sidekick Peter Falk, as a two-bit racketeer taking a journey through downtown Philadelphia to the end of the night.

Join the Reel House Foundation for a special screening of Elaine May's intense and gripping drama "Mikey and Nicky". This is a rare opportunity to see May's outdo Scorsese and Cassavetes with one of ...

Critic-at-large John Powers reviews Mikey & Nicky, a film first released in 1976 written and directed by Elaine May starring John Cassavetes and Peter Falk. It's now out on DVD. As Editor-in-Chief of ...

Actress, comedian, writer, and director Elaine May, 92, does not do interviews; she rarely makes public appearances. So when she agreed to a post-screening Q&A as part of Metrograph‘s American Cinema ...