‘A Criminally Underappreciated Moviemaker’: In Praise Of Elaine May

Describing her as “a terrific director of actors whose comedy can lacerate,” New York Times co-chief film critic Manohla Dargis reviews May’s career, from her 1971 directing debut, A New Leaf, through The Heartbreak Kid and Mikey and Nicky, to the notorious Ishtar (1987), an expensive quasi-flop generally considered to have ended May’s directing career but which Dargis calls “a loony, loopy blissout … whose time is now.” — The New York Times