Eighteen months ago, I awoke to the news that longtime motion picture director Mike Nichols had passed away at the age of 83. The knock against Nichols was always that, as a director, he never developed a signature style; that he often directed Hollywood fluff, softened for the masses. To an extent, that criticism is fair. But it wasn’t always so.
Buried Treasures: The Graduate
Buried Treasures: The Graduate
Buried Treasures: The Graduate
Eighteen months ago, I awoke to the news that longtime motion picture director Mike Nichols had passed away at the age of 83. The knock against Nichols was always that, as a director, he never developed a signature style; that he often directed Hollywood fluff, softened for the masses. To an extent, that criticism is fair. But it wasn’t always so.