Article: In May's screen gem, women's albums, genius shines through With its male bonding and alienation, victimized suburban wives and women on the margins, the movie is an extreme companion piece to Cassavetes' "Husbands."

For fans of personal, off-the-map filmmaking, "Mikey & Nicky" was one of the great lost movies of the '70s. It was first released, briefly, in 1976, following an epic war of wills between the obsessed writer-director Elaine May and Paramount Pictures, in a version pieced together by the studio. A superior version of her own emerged several years later and then the movie pretty much disappeared.

Now, finally, this absurdist crime drama is out on DVD, imperfectly restored but nearly perfectly made, staking its claim as one of the great found movies of the '00s. Is it "ragged," as Leonard Maltin dismissively characterizes it in his Movie & Video Guide? You bet. But its ragged quality only adds ...

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