Mikey and Nicky
Director: Elaine May
Year Released: 1976
Rating: 2.0
May sets out to make a Cassavetes film - with John C. and collaborator Peter Falk as her two main performers - but ends up with something self-indulgent and sloppy (charges which are usually leveled against Cassavetes' own films by his non-fans). She allows the two of them to ramble endlessly in all the improvised scenes - the experience can only be likened to a stretched out "Who's On First" skit for an hour and forty-five minutes. I personally feel this is wildly overrated and given too much credit for the little it provides - the sheer thought that it, an exercise in malice, represents the 'impossibility of male friendship' is highly suspect.
