Mike Nichols (with Mark Harris)

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Amy and Paul sit down with Mark Harris, author of "Mike Nichols: A Life," to discuss the career of the famed director of films like "The Graduate" and "Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?", and the insights Harris uncovered by diving into his life and work. Next week, movie discussion resumes, as we kick off our Underdogs series on real-life-inspired sports films with Hoosiers!

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to Unspooled!
0:24.8	I am Paul Sheer.
0:25.8	I am Amy Nicholson.
0:27.0	And this is a very special episode.
0:29.6	We are going to be sitting down today with Mark Harris.
0:32.0	And Mark Harris, if you don't know, is an author and really an amazing biographer.
0:39.0	I mean, Amy, he has written some really classic books that talk a lot about things that
0:46.7	we're talking about on the show all the time.
0:48.6	Oh, I mean, I feel like he's always coming up from pictures that are revolutioned if
0:51.6	I have came back.
0:52.6	Like, he does great work in film scholarship.
0:56.0	And his new book is so perfect to talk about the show.
0:58.5	It's a really in-depth biography of Mike Nicholson.
1:02.3	Director, we've talked a lot about here.
1:04.2	Of course, he directed the graduate.
1:06.3	He directed, who's afraid of Virginia Woolf.
1:09.0	His influence and the people he met extends through so many films that we have talked about
1:13.3	on this show.
1:14.3	I mean, even from the fact that I learned reading this book that when he was prepping to
1:17.6	do Virginia Woolf, his very first film, he was watching 400 blows over, again, over and
1:22.2	over again, because he was like, this is a film made by a first-time director.
1:25.3	I'm a first-time director, psyching himself up.
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