Mike Nichols Movie News

  • The Graduate director Mike Nichols passes away

    Mike Nichols, award-winning director of 21 films, has died today at the age of 83. Nichols was best-known for his films The Graduate, The Birdcage, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Charlie Wilson’s War, and for a style that focused on the…

    Mike Nichols, award-winning director of 21 films, has died today at the age of 83. Nichols was best-known for his films The Graduate, The Birdcage, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Charlie Wilson’s War, and for a style that focused on the relationships between ordinary people in above-ordinary circumstances. Perhaps best loved for his second film, The Graduate, the Dustin Hoffman-starring ode to post-graduate life has never lost its edge; elsewhere, Nichols also boosted Robin Williams’…
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  • Mike Nichols: A Tribute

    “As Dustin Hoffman’s deadpan profile glides past us in the opening sequence of The Graduate, the sweet tones of Simon and Garfunkel’s The Sound of Silence caressing our ears, we realise with total certainty that we are in the hands of a master of his craft. Director Mike Nichols has taken The Graduate, a little-known novel by Charles Webb, and transformed it into an Oscar-winning picture destined to achieve classic status, and speaking to a whole new generation of film-lovers”…

    “As Dustin Hoffman’s deadpan profile glides past us in the opening sequence of The Graduate, the sweet tones of Simon and Garfunkel’s The Sound of Silence caressing our ears, we realise with total certainty that we are in the hands of a master of his craft. Director Mike Nichols has taken The Graduate, a little-known novel by Charles Webb, and transformed it into an Oscar-winning picture destined to achieve classic status, and speaking to a whole new generation of film-lovers”…
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