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Rassegna stampa di Mike Nichols

Mike Nichols (Michael Igor Peschkowsky) è un regista, produttore, produttore esecutivo, scrittore, è nato il 6 novembre 1931 a Berlino (Germania) ed è morto il 19 novembre 2014 all'età di 83 anni a Los Angeles, California (USA).

CHARLES MCGRATH
The New York Times

MIKE NICHOLS, the subject of a two-week retrospective starting Tuesday at the Museum of Modern Art, is not an obvious choice for a place as artsy and highbrow as the MoMA film department. MoMA retrospectives tend to be awarded to brooding European auteurs — Bernardo Bertolucci and Milos Forman were the last two — and not to commercial Hollywood directors who include on their résumé pop hits like “Working Girl,” “The Birdcage” and, just recently, “Charlie Wilson’s War.”
Except for a puzzling string of duds in the mid-’70s, almost all of Mr. Nichols’s movies have made money, and a few, like “The Graduate” and “Carnal Knowledge,” have been recognized as cultural landmarks. But because of their commercial shimmer, their way of eliciting exceptional performances by top-of-the-line stars, it’s sometimes hard to say what makes a Nichols movie a Nichols movie. They seem like vehicles for actors, not the director, whose stamp is in leaving almost no trace of himself.
“If you want to be a legend, God help you, it’s so easy,” Mr. Nichols said the other day over coffee in his Times Square office. “You just do one thing. You can be the master of suspense, say. But if you want to be as invisible as is practical, then it’s fun to do a lot of different things.”
If his movies have a common denominator, it’s probably their intelligence and, though Mr. Nichols doesn’t think of himself as a writer, their writerly attention to detail. They’re almost invariably based on good scripts, from which he extracts extra layers of nuance. The organizer of the retrospective, Rajendra Roy, the chief curator of film at MoMA, said: “Here is a guy who is in some ways quintessentially Hollywood, and yet you can see in his movies a consistent through-line. He’s an example of how popular cinema can be vision based.”
Nora Ephron, who wrote the script for Mr. Nichols’s movie “Heartburn” and co-wrote his film “Silkwood,” said recently: “It’s supposed to be a given that Mike doesn’t have the visual style of, say, a Scorsese. But that isn’t fair. Mike doesn’t use the camera in a flamboyant way, but he has a style just the way a writer who’s crystal clear has a style. He has an almost invisible fluidity.”

IRENE BIGNARDI
La Repubblica

Figlio di ebrei tedeschi immigrati in America quando aveva sette anni, Mike Nichols è stato forse il più giovane passeggero del famoso e famigerato treno Vienna-Berlino-Hollywood. Michael Igor Peschkonsky - questo il suo vero nome - ebbe una giovinezza molto dura: suo padre, medico, morì quando Mike aveva dodici anni e solo a prezzo di molti sforzi Nichols riuscì con una serie di borse di studio e di lavoretti a frequentare l'Università di Chicago, studiando quindi da attore con Strasberg.

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