On Friday, February 11, 2011 at 6:59:21 PM UTC-8, John Doe wrote:
> Shown on Time Warner Classics tonight. Great movie, but was the end
> awkward?

(New Nichols bio):

- The following year The Graduate—written by Buck Henry, who would become a regular Nichols collaborator and life-long friend— shattered the remnants of the PCA. It did so with a handful of other pictures released in 1967, including Point Blank (John Boorman) and Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn). These character-driven, European influenced features included violence and sexuality, and, most significantly, moral ambiguity. Films with these elements would not have been able to find distribution in mainstream theaters just a few years prior. The very subject matter of The Graduate would have been deemed “un-filmable” by the PCA. Indeed, the possibilities of U.S. cinema were transformed by the commercial success of films such as Virginia Woolf and The Graduate.

http://bostonreview.net/arts-society/jonathan-kirshner-mike-nichols-and-american-century

On Sunday, July 18, 2021 at 1:05:14 AM UTC-4, gggg gggg wrote:
> On Friday, February 11, 2011 at 6:59:21 PM UTC-8, John Doe wrote:
> > Shown on Time Warner Classics tonight. Great movie, but was the end
> > awkward?
> (New Nichols bio):
>
> - The following year The Graduate—written by Buck Henry, who would become a regular Nichols collaborator and life-long friend— shattered the remnants of the PCA. It did so with a handful of other pictures released in 1967, including Point Blank (John Boorman) and Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn). These character-driven, European influenced features included violence and sexuality, and, most significantly, moral ambiguity. Films with these elements would not have been able to find distribution in mainstream theaters just a few years prior. The very subject matter of The Graduate would have been deemed “un-filmable” by the PCA. Indeed, the possibilities of U.S. cinema were transformed by the commercial success of films such as Virginia Woolf and The Graduate.
>
> http://bostonreview.net/arts-society/jonathan-kirshner-mike-nichols-and-american-century
What you really mean is Blow-Up, A Taste of Honey, and other foreign films that signaled the end of the Hays Code. Keep dreaming that the gutless Hollywood directors did anything.