I didn’t know how to tell my mum that Mike Nichols hated my script
Emma Forrest
I had my icons and I worshipped them. And one of them dumping on me from a great height was painful – though perhaps useful, too
July 2019
How we made
How we made Closer – by Clive Owen and Patrick Marber
‘I wanted to write a Shakespearean scene with someone in disguise, so I went into a lesbian chatroom pretending to be a gay woman’
November 2018
From improv to Ishtar: the many lives of comedy genius Elaine May
Trailblazing comic, Oscar-nominated writer and acting sensation Elaine May is back on Broadway. Nathan Lane, Cybill Shepherd and others reveal what makes her tick
June 2017
The Graduate review – Hoffman and Bancroft are as irresistibly watchable as ever
Summer arts preview 2017
Summer 2017's best movies: from Scarlett Johansson's hen night to Morrissey's teen years
August 2016
30 minutes with …
Natalie Portman: 'The less I’m in a movie, the more I like it'
The actor talks about directing herself, the things she learned from Terrence Malick and Mike Nichols, and making a tourist trip to the Star Wars universe
February 2016
Becoming Mike Nichols: new HBO film is fitting tribute to a great director
Documentary shows Nichols discussing Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Graduate before a New York theater audience, shortly before his death in 2014
December 2015
Haskell Wexler, the genius cinematographer committed to the left
The man who revolutionised the way movies were filmed also earned himself a 500-page FBI file, thanks to his involvement in agitation for social justice
July 2015
Dustin Hoffman is wrong about 'small movies' and film being at its worst ever
‘It’s hard to believe you can do good work for the little amount of money these days’ the actor says, but films like Boyhood and Birdman prove him wrong
June 2015
On my radar
On my radar: Richard Ayoade’s cultural highlights
The actor and film-maker on Björk’s powerful brilliance, the gritty films of Mike Nichols and the perfect sound of TS Eliot’s poetry
February 2015
Baftas pay tribute to Robin Williams, Lauren Bacall and more
The legacy of the stars and film-makers who died in 2014, who also include Richard Attenborough and Mike Nichols, has been recognised in a video tribute at this year’s British Academy film awards
November 2014
Simon Callow pays tribute to film-maker Mike Nichols
Film blog
Why Working Girl offers the real deal
David Shariatmadari
Mike Nichols remembered by Philip French: ‘A pleasure to work with and a delight to talk to’
Mike Nichols made films about women – sadly a rarity in Hollywood
Deborah Orr
From the Guardian archive
Review of Mike Nichols' The Graduate, 1968 - making fun of a young man's fancy
Here’s to you, Mike Nichols: tributes flow after death of Graduate director
Mike Nichols - a life in pictures
Mike Nichols obituary
Film blog
Mike Nichols: 10 of the best, from Virginia Woolf to Charlie Wilson
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