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Mikey and Nicky

Elaine May
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Elaine May

June 26 - July 2

Set entirely across one anxious night, Elaine May’s emotionally tremulous third feature stars John Cassavetes as a Philly gangster running for his life and Peter Falk as his childhood friend who—unbeknownst to him—is helping his pursuers.

DIRECTOR
Elaine May
YEAR
1976
COUNTRY
U.S.
RUNTIME
106 minutes
LANGUAGE
English

Elaine May’s third feature stands apart from the rest of her oeuvre in a number of ways, not least of which is the fact that it finds her working with another paradigm-shifting actor/director in John Cassavetes. Here Cassavetes plays opposite his frequent collaborator Peter Falk, the former playing a Philly gangster who has run afoul of his boss and gone underground due to a fresh contract on his life; the latter playing his childhood friend who—unbeknownst to him—is helping with the assassination plot. Set entirely across one anxious night, Mikey and Nicky remains an eminently potent, emotionally tremulous portrait of male friendship (and male betrayal) that crackles with the raw energy of three of the era’s most indelible and uncompromising American film artists working together. A Muscle Distribution/Hollywood Entertainment release.

Todd Berliner, who introduced the 6pm screening on June 30, is Professor of Film Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He is the author of Hollywood Renegade: Elaine May, Mikey and Nicky, and the Making of a Masterpiece, soon to be released by University of Texas Press.
Mikey and Nicky
Mikey and Nicky
Mikey and Nicky
Mikey and Nicky
Mikey and Nicky
Mikey and Nicky

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