{"id":15166,"date":"2022-08-24T22:00:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T02:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15166"},"modified":"2022-08-24T21:41:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T01:41:58","slug":"mikey-and-nicky-1975-elaine-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15166","title":{"rendered":"Mikey and Nicky (1975, Elaine May)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grungy camera work, uneven sound mixing, very Cassavetes-ish dialogue and behavior though apparently it&#8217;s an entirely May-created work, based on small-time gangsters she&#8217;d grown up around.  It&#8217;s part 358 in my ongoing series &#8220;What Do People See in the Cinema of the 1970&#8217;s?&#8221; though it&#8217;s easy to admire after it&#8217;s over.  Cassavetes is unpleasant to be around &#8211; racist, sexist, prone to fits of destruction and paranoia &#8211; and everyone wants him dead, including his friend Falk, who is informing hit man Ned Beatty of their movements across the city.  As the peripheral women, we&#8217;ve got Joyce Van Patten (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12310\">Monkey Shines<\/a><\/em> mom) as John&#8217;s unamused wife, May regular Rose Arrick as Peter&#8217;s complicit wife, and the unknown Carol Grace as their lonely plaything\/victim.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/alvogler\/film\/mikey-and-nicky\/\">On Letterboxd<\/a>: &#8220;Boyfriends and Girlfriends&#8221; by Low<\/p>\n<p><em>Our happy boys, everything going great:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/mikey1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Ned, reflecting a marquee showing The Laughing Policeman and <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14221\">Fist of Fury<\/a>:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/mikey2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grungy camera work, uneven sound mixing, very Cassavetes-ish dialogue and behavior though apparently it&#8217;s an entirely May-created work, based on small-time gangsters she&#8217;d grown up around. It&#8217;s part 358 in my ongoing series &#8220;What Do People See in the Cinema of the 1970&#8217;s?&#8221; though it&#8217;s easy to admire after it&#8217;s over. Cassavetes is unpleasant to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,1363,1243,39,3046],"class_list":["post-15166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-elaine-may","tag-gangsters","tag-john-cassavetes","tag-peter-falk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15201,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15166\/revisions\/15201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}