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 ere are over a dozen reviews and essays of The
Graduate. With the exception of the first two
reviews (which were written in 2007 and 1986,
respectively), they were all first published in
late 1967 and the first half of 1968 in various
magazines and books, soon after the film was
released.
"A Current Affair"
In his 40th
anniversary edition The Graduate DVD
review, Entertainment Weekly's Chris
Nashawaty finds the film as relevant as ever.
"The Graduate
(1967)"
David Zinman looks
back at the movie almost 20 years after it was made
in his fine 1986 book Fifty Great Movies of the
1960s and 1970s.
"The Graduate Makes
Out"
Great article
written by Hollis Alpert about the movie and its
impact that appeared in the July 6, 1968, edition
of Saturday Review.
"The Graduate -
1967" A lengthy
and scholarly study of the film by Stephen Farber
and Estelle Changas from the Spring 1968 edition of
Film Quarterly.
"The Graduate
Reclassified"
California English
professor Tom S. Reck, writing in
Commonweal, discusses the film's symbology
among other topics.
"The Graduate"
John Simon, in his book
Movies Into Film, verbosely ponders what he
sees as the seven major weaknesses of the film in
this 1968 essay.
"Mike Nichols: Wizard
of Wit" A
profile of The Graduate director Mike
Nichols by Look magazine senior editor Betty
Rollin.
(Title Unknown)
Harvard research
psychiatrist and author Robert Coles defends
The Graduate from charges of "dishonesty"
and "heavy-handed" symbolism, and draws parallels to
another famous film of the time, Bonnie and
Clyde. From the May 1968 edition of
Trans-Action.
"Sons and
Fathers"
Catholic Andrew M.
Greeley gives a religious take on The
Graduate and the Sixties Generation Gap. From
the Feb. '68 issue of Reporter
magazine.
"FILM
67/68"
An essay on
The Graduate by film critic Richard
Schickel that appeared in the Jan. 19, 1968,
edition of Life magazine.
"A swarthy Pinocchio
makes a wooden role real"
A Nov. 24, 1967,
Life magazine feature on The Graduate
star Dustin Hoffman by David Zeitler.
(Untitled)
A concise review of
The Graduate from a late 1967 issue of
Harper's magazine.
"Film
Chronicle"
Favorable review of
The Graduate written by Richard Corliss.
From the May 7, 1968, issue of National
Review.
"What's Wrong with
The Graduate"
An essay critical of
the film by late well-known television newsman and
commentator David Brinkley that appeared in a 1968
issue of Ladies Home Journal.
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