My mom shares a birthday with Katharine Ross (they were born a couple of years apart), and she also has a thing for Sam Elliott.😂
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Damn she reminded me of Sister Ruth then.
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Benjamin apologizes, and for perhaps the first time in the film he begins speaking sincerely to another person.
Elaine listens
The two discover that they have something important in common: neither is entirely comfortable with the world their parents have constructed for them.
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The scene in the strip club is so cruel. Katharine Ross’s characterization isn’t as natural as the others, but she immediately becomes sympathetic from then on. #TheGraduate #TCMParty

my parents had this album and we wore it out...of course we didn't know what the film was about
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Soundtrack album
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The visual imagery of Mike Nichols
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And that shot of the coffee table in the hotel lobby is a wow. #TheGraduate #TCMParty

When once he was trapped in the water, now he's floating on it.
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Simon & Garfunkel changed what a movie soundtrack could do. "The Sound of Silence," "Scarborough Fair," and especially "Mrs. Robinson" aren't merely songs laid over scenes. Nichols uses them almost like Benjamin's internal voice.
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It’s one of the greatest performances of the decade and of Bancroft’s career, even including her Oscar-winning turn as Annie Sullivan. She’s all this plus untimately pathetic and manipulative to the point of villainous. To me it’s like Barbara Stanwyck for the ‘60s generation. #TheGraduate #TCMParty

I've never noticed the Dutch angle in this hotel room scene before.
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This is Mike Nichols' 2nd film after WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1966)
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Buck Henry in a cameo as the desk clerk
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In today's world, that would be like casting Margot Robbie as Mrs. Robinson and Tom Holland as Benjamin. #TheGraduate #TCMParty

I love #TheGraduate screenwriter Buck Henry’s cameo as the hotel receptionist. #TCMParty

Nichols allows awkward moments to continue several beats longer than you'd expect. The result is comedy based on discomfort rather than punchlines.
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Benjamin's attempts to arrange the hotel encounter are almost painfully funny—the desk clerk, the room, the phone calls, his nervous insistence that he knows what he's doing.
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The novella was published in 1963, a lifetime from 1967—a point Roger Ebert critiqued. It was dated from the start. So why does this film feel so perfect? Being “trapped” in the past makes Ben feel trapped? #TheGraduate #TCMParty

Anne Bancroft could have played Mrs. Robinson simply as the sophisticated older seductress. Instead, she's funny, intimidating, lonely, angry, and deeply disappointed by the life she ended up living.
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