POLL: Elaine May

I like movies with shitty people in them but Nicky is such a pain in the ass, dumbfuck. It's innervating.

I've now seen all of these movies bar a new leaf and I don't really like any of them. Heartbreak kid is my favourite

The copy on Amazon Prime seems to be stretched horizontally. I agree with comments above that it also looks like crap. Not just the darkness but also e.g. starting with a freeze-frame of a door because they didn't shoot enough coverage.

not shooting enough was famously the biggest problem with Mikey And Nicky

Mikey and Nicky is perfect

I think Morbs said Mikey and Nicky was his favorite gangster film.

Also his favorite gay romance.

thought this thread was bumped because of her guest role in the Good Fight, where she played RBG in a dream sequence where she basically says "fuck Black people, get yours" to Christine Baranski's character

If you’re giving out spoilers, how about a timestamp

don't have a timestamp for you but there's video here: https://ew.com/tv/the-good-fight-diane-rbg-clip-interview/

I had already acquired the episode due to hearing that May was in it, intending to watch the story it told; now that I know she's only in one scene and what she does in it, I shan't bother watching the story, but I still would have checked out the whole minute or five or w/e of her performance. Being directed to an Entertainment Weekly video of the writers of the story breaking down their intention in telling a story that I haven't seen has entirely drained my ability to invest into May's involvement in the story.

tbf, it's the Elaine May thread; it's reasonable that people might pop in with comments on a recent tv appearance. i get the desire for a spoiler tag or something, but if you are saving watching something i do recommend leaving such threads lie until you've gotten around to it. for example i usually unbookmark film-anticipation threads in between when the film comes out and when i watch it, but that's just me.

without being mad at Murgatroid or anything, I do think there's a difference between "btw y'all May took her first non-Woody screen acting role in 31 years this week in case anyone wants to check it out!" and "here is a complete summary of May's first acting role in 31 years, including the punchline, which aired a day and a half ago"

(her first notable screen acting role in 21 years if we assume fewer people here regularly watched Woody's Bezos miniseries, which he promoted by saying "It was a catastrophic mistake. I don't know what I'm doing. I'm floundering. I expect this to be a cosmic embarrassment," than The Good Fight)

I didn't think it was a spoiler because it's a dream sequence that does not impact the actual plot whatsoever

Why the Indicator Ishtar got canceled:

-Ishtar had gotten to a point where the studio was asking for significant cuts to every single feature on the disc and to leave off things already licensed for it altogether, and they just decided to cancel the release instead of dropping it all, the studio did not want anything that discussed the film's past reputation at all, too many sensitivities, they could have done a vanilla edition and decided it wasn't in the spirit of the label

Powerful studio people who interfered in 1986-1987 still alive? Never underestimate the sustaining powers of hate.

The speculation is that it's actually Warren Beatty who stepped in here. But really, how powerful even is he these days?

Annette Bening could not be reached for comment.

Beatty's meddling is supposedly why the Criterion edition of Shampoo was less than stacked.

Whaddya want, guy always had a lot of energy to carry out his various activities.

the studio did not want anything that discussed the film's past reputation at all

Forgot that Sony did a still in-print "Director's Cut" Blu of Ishtar.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0037QGRVK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_i_H8AD6ZAX5TV39ENHDH3T?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Mikey and Nicky was really hard going. It was an Elaine May version of a toxic John Cassavetes film, starring Cassavetes himself

mikey and nicky is amazing

Yeah it's an experience, if nothing else.

Came here to post that I had recently rewatched Enter Laughing, a film I had fond memories of seeing on a TV matinee movie as a kid, and had forgotten Elaine May is in it. Turns out Morbs beat me to it four years ago.

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what are the best films directed by nonagenarians?

Aside from Manoel de Oliveira's?