Mike Nichols: American Masters (2016)

Original title

Mike Nichols: An American Master

Directed by

Elaine May

Genre

documentary, tv movie

Country

United States of America

Runtime

56 min

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary features a long interview with director Mike Nichols about his life and career. It was directed by his longtime collaborator Elaine May and focuses closely on Nichols telling his own story.

intimatereflectivepersonalwarmconversationalnostalgicfocused

What happens

Mike Nichols: American Masters is a 2016 documentary film directed by Elaine May about the life of Mike Nichols broadcast on the PBS series American Masters. It is derived from a lengthy interview with Nichols conducted by producer Julian Schlossberg. Brian Lowry of Variety has called it "the last memorable Nichols-May collaboration." Richard Brody said that although it is not a major contribution to May's life's work, it "is nonetheless distinctive in its sparseness, its fixed and almost obsessive concentration on Nichols’s face and voice... [it's] May’s highest tribute to Nichols." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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