Painfully Funny: The Films of Elaine May

May’s directorial debut is a marvel of comic invention complete with romance, class satire and betrayal.

One of the great American romantic comedies, May’s film dismantles the genre’s tropes one by one.

Peter Falk and John Cassavetes star as gangsters on the run in May’s pitiless examination of masculinity.

Initially a flop, May’s 1987 takedown of Reaganite policy is a film whose time has come.