Elaine May
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I couldn’t help thinking of Elaine May’s Mikey and Nicky as at least an inspiration, if not a tighter expression of these ideas.
A sadder and bedraggled “Mikey and Nicky”—why so existential?—Martin…
Beatty and Hoffman and Elaine May with “Ishtar.”
About Time (2013)
Directed by Richard Curtis
influenced by A New Leaf (1971), The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
Themes
Some of the greatest of all comedies (Elaine May’s A New Leaf and The Heartbreak Kid or Billy Wilder’s The Apartment and Some Like It Hot) feature people behaving despicably, all without any cost to our enjoyment.
Some of the greatest of all comedies (Elaine May’s A New Leaf and The Heartbreak Kid or Billy Wilder’s The Apartment and Some Like It Hot) feature people behaving despicably, all without any cost to our enjoyment.
…the clear influence of classic anxiety-primed crime films like The Killing of a Chinese Bookie and Mikey and Nicky…
On May, rather than any one film
…channeling Nichols and May…
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2026)
Directed by Matt Johnson
influenced by Ishtar (1987)
Plot
From the get-go, Nirvanna feels reminiscent of Elaine May’s Ishtar, a long unjustly maligned comedy gem about two grown men set on manifesting their musical aspirations despite middling songwriting talent.