In this month's instalment of our Mike Nichols marathon, we are putting our thinking caps on as we discuss his first official box office disappointment, which is the adaptation of Joseph Heller's irreverent post-war novel Catch-22. You will hear us talk about how this movie came together with its lavish production, editing woes and having to deal with Orson Welles on set, how it was a truly Herculean attempt at filming the unfilmable and how despite all the script changes and diversions from the novel the author still liked the output. We also talk about how Altman's MASH beat Nichols to the punch and how Kubrick's Dr Strangelove and 2001 gave him permission to think big, how the movie might be a dream and how it is equally funny as it is frightening.
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