As a subscriber to the BFI's Sight and Sound Magazine, I receive by email their weekly film bulletin. This week there was an article called "From the Archive: Laughing Matters". It is all about the writer and director (and stand-up comic) Elaine May who was 92 on Sunday.
No, I knew nothing about her. There is a link to the Sight and Sound Archive in October 2018 where a biography includes her work with Mike Nichols. Elaine received Oscar nominations for her screenplays for 1978's Heaven Can Wait and 1998's Primary Colours. Her script doctoring apparently saved Reds from 1981 and the following year's Tootsie.
This week there is also a link to "The Magnificent '74: The Conversation" where Jessica Kiang looks back fifty years to American cinema's banner year. Then the director Paul Duane picks his top ten best films. The Watchlist talks about what to see this week including Daisy Ridley in Sometimes I Think About Dying, on at Cineworld now. "This Week's Classic Cover" is from March 2000 with Al Pacino but there is nothing interesting in Editor's Choice. Enough to keep me going to the next publication of Sight and Sound.
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