The world of film has its auteurs and icons, and loyal viewers will line up to see a movie based on a director’s name alone. But the name of Mike Nichols guaranteed a film experience above almost all ...

Broadway and Hollywood director Mike Nichols died today at 83. He was best known for his films The Graduate and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? but was also one of only about a dozen people in the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Mike Nichols, the director of matchless versatility who brought fierce wit, caustic social commentary and wicked absurdity to such film, TV and stage hits as "The Graduate," "Angels in ...

Yes, it was formally groundbreaking (within the context of American cinema), and is often read as a metaphor for the clash of generations, the burgeoning freedoms and battles for equality being waged ...

This is wrong, Angelika Film Center. You bring us in and offer us drinks. You seduce us by screening The Graduate in its original 35 mm format, when many of us are too young to have experienced it on ...

After appearing in a dozen stage productions in both Los Angeles and New York City, Hoffman made his feature film debut in the 1967 black comedy, The Tiger Makes Out, alongside Eli Wallach. That same ...

Closer is a movie that will make ears burn from the causticity of the words spilling from its characters’ screwed-up mouths. Director Mike Nichols (The Graduate) is no stranger to controversy, and ...

It's a big day for the Oscar winner. — -- Oscar-winner Dustin Hoffman, acclaimed for his work in films like "The Graduate," "Kramer vs. Kramer" and "Rain Man," turns 80 today. The Los ...