Mark Harris: Today is the 58th anniversary of the opening of Mike Nichols's first movie, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? It was an earthquake. I can't give you a contemporary analogy because none quite works, but it remains a you-cannot-look-away mindblower. It's rentable in many places; pls don't watch on Tubi.

Today is the 58th anniversary of the opening of Mike Nichols's first movie, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? It was an earthquake. I can't give you a contemporary analogy because none quite works, but it remains a you-cannot-look-away mindblower. It's rentable in many places; pls don't watch on Tubi.

But cutting to an ad for TGI Friday’s jalapeno poppers after hearing Nick joke to George he wants to sleep with his wife might just add a certain level of nihilistic despair to the whole project

I'm two-thirds through PICTURES AT A REVOLUTION, and the bits about …VIRGINIA WOOLF are fantastic. Looking forward to more in the Nichols biography!

Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of …www.goodreads.com Explores the epic human drama behind the making of the …

There's definitely more!

Excellent book as is Five Came Back.

screening at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social in chicago this sunday

I’m curious, why not Tubi? Not that I ever use it myself.

I think it's about the ad breaks

Taylor and Burton were so brilliant I need to watch it again

Haven’t seen it in a couple decades now but I was truly shaken by it. I was not expecting a full-on emotional horror movie 😮

I was nine years old when it came out. I suppose it eventually aired on the Million Dollar Movie. It scared the heck out of me.

My favorite, I cry every time

There's a moment when Martha spits "god damn you!" at George (I think right before he opens the door to the guests) and I've never heard anyone say that phrase with anywhere near that intensity, either on screen or in real life. Her mix of pain and hate is both frightening and deeply sad.

I am afraid of Virginia Woolf.

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