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jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

the billy wilder movie with jack lemon, have you seen it?

HideousLump · **Posted:** Tue Jan 02, 2007 11:54 pm

It's a good 'un. Won Best Picture, Director and Screenplay.

Now if you want a great Billy Wilder movie that nobody's heard of, try One Two Three.

greezy · **Posted:** Tue Jan 02, 2007 11:55 pm

have the soundtrack, never seen it.

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

HideousLump Wrote:

It's a good 'un. Won Best Picture, Director and Screenplay.

Now if you want a great Billy Wilder movie that nobody's heard of, try One Two Three.

wow, i've never even heard of it. i'll have to check it out.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Tue Jan 02, 2007 11:59 pm

It's one of those movies, like Sunset Boulevard or Some Like It Hot that people claim to have seen and love, but not many really have or do.

A lot of movies, moreso than music, don't hold up too well over the years.

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

Sen. Dat Married LooGAR Wrote:

It's one of those movies, like Sunset Boulevard or Some Like It Hot that people claim to have seen and love, but not many really have or do.

A lot of movies, moreso than music, don't hold up too well over the years.

i watch it three or four times a year, and it keeps getting better for me. It's not unlike a Cohen brothers movie in that the language is unique to the film so that it doesn't eally seem dated.

i've seen "some like it hot" a bunch of times and i don't enjoy it.

Charli · **Posted:** Wed Jan 03, 2007 12:21 am

Saw some of it years ago. Can't remember it much though.

I love older movies and this is one I keep meaning to check out again, the whole way through.

Z · **Joined:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:38 pm **Posts:** 7979

i saw it at movies in the park last summer. and now i see it on tv a lot. i know someone who considers this a christmas movie. does anyone else?

Cosmic Bus · **Posted:** Wed Jan 03, 2007 12:30 am

Own the Apartment on DVD and really adore it. Besides this and Sunset Blvd, though, I haven't been particularly taken with Wilder's other movies.

shmoo · **Posted:** Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:07 am

I just earlier today added this to my Netflix queue. I have certain directors where I keep one film of their's in the queue at a time. It was time to add a Wilder film, and this seemed to be the best of the those I hadn't seen yet. Watched the trailer and looks amusing.

neuroboy · **Posted:** Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:17 am

great article on the apartment from popmatters last month.

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/columns/article/8406/finally-room-at-the-inn/

. . . such a good movie. i don't know a ton of billy wilder's stuff but this one is one of my fav movies. the lost weekend is good, too.

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:24 am

The Apartment is one of Wilder's worst, IMO. Hectic, shrill, and smug. And every passing year it seems a little worse.

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:51 am

Own it in the Billy Wilder boxset. Great film. Fred McMurray always gets me.

tkyd · **Posted:** Wed Jan 03, 2007 3:45 am

McMurray certainly does sleaze it up nice. This is the first film I saw that made me realize that Shirley MacLaine was indeed pretty hot back in the day.

neuroboy · **Posted:** Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:51 am

tkyd Wrote:

that made me realize that Shirley MacLaine was indeed pretty hot back in the day.

yeah, i know, huh? weird given that i know her as the wacko/astrologer

Rick Derris · **Posted:** Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:09 am

Sen. Dat Married LooGAR Wrote:

It's one of those movies, like Sunset Boulevard or Some Like It Hot that people claim to have seen and love, but not many really have or do.

??? I don't get you sometimes and where are you encountering fucktards that do this?

I saw this during my college days when I vowed to see every movie on the AFI Top 100 movies of all time. Vision Video had a deal where you could rent 5 old releases for 5 bucks. Best deal in town.

Great screenplay and great acting but I have no desire to see it again.

Still haven't gotten around to seeing everything on that list. Still need to mark these off:

10. SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952)
16. ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)
23. THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)
33. HIGH NOON (1952)
34. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962)
35. IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934)
37. THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946)
38. DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)
39. DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965)
51. THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940)
52. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953)
53. AMADEUS (1984)
54. ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930)
63. STAGECOACH (1939)
68. AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951)
69. SHANE (1953)
70. THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971)
73. WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939)
74. THE GOLD RUSH (1925)
76. CITY LIGHTS (1931)
81. MODERN TIMES (1936)
82. GIANT (1956)
85. DUCK SOUP (1933)
87. FRANKENSTEIN (1931)
90. THE JAZZ SINGER (1927)
91. MY FAIR LADY (1964)
92. A PLACE IN THE SUN (1951)
97. BRINGING UP BABY (1938)

Although the chances of me ever seeing any of those before 1940 are pretty slim.

Z · **Joined:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:38 pm **Posts:** 7979

Rick Derris Wrote:

I saw this during my college days when I vowed to see every movie on the AFI Top 100 movies of all time.

some of my friends spent a whole summer watching two movies from that list almost every night. good times...

red · **Joined:** Fri Jun 17, 2005 5:34 am **Posts:** 5009

neuroboy Wrote:

tkyd Wrote:

that made me realize that Shirley MacLaine was indeed pretty hot back in the day.

yeah, i know, huh? weird given that i know her as the wacko/astrologer

I was out with some friends the other night and we were doing top five people you'd sleep with or go gay for if given the chance. Any time period, too. I chose MacLaine in The Apartment and everyone looked at me like I was crazy. She was adorable in that movie. Now she's just a crazy old bat.

Z · **Joined:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:38 pm **Posts:** 7979

red Wrote:

neuroboy Wrote:

tkyd Wrote:

that made me realize that Shirley MacLaine was indeed pretty hot back in the day.

yeah, i know, huh? weird given that i know her as the wacko/astrologer

I was out with some friends the other night and we were doing top five people you'd sleep with or go gay for if given the chance. Any time period, too. I chose MacLaine in The Apartment and everyone looked at me like I was crazy. She was adorable in that movie. Now she's just a crazy old bat.

she also looked pretty good in the original ocean's eleven, as i recall.

shmoo · **Posted:** Wed Jan 03, 2007 2:16 pm

Z Wrote:

she also looked pretty good in the original ocean's eleven, as i recall.

Irma la Douce.

no guru · **Posted:** Wed Jan 03, 2007 2:19 pm

When I get home I'll post The Jazz Butcher's "Shirley Maclaine." Good tune.

no guru · **Posted:** Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:20 pm

The Jazz Butcher - "Shirley Maclaine" (Condition Blue, 1991)

Code:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/4vxe37

tkyd · **Posted:** Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:30 pm

red Wrote:

I was out with some friends the other night and we were doing top five people you'd sleep with or go gay for if given the chance. Any time period, too. I chose MacLaine in The Apartment and everyone looked at me like I was crazy. She was adorable in that movie. Now she's just a crazy old bat.

I would have to say Constance Bennett...or Bette Davis.

HideousLump · **Posted:** Thu Jan 04, 2007 12:02 am

shmoo Wrote:

Irma la Douce.

Now that's the Wilder/MacLaine/Lemmon movie that doesn't hold up, not The Apartment

shmoo · **Posted:** Thu Jan 04, 2007 12:22 am

HideousLump Wrote:

shmoo Wrote:

Irma la Douce.

Now that's the Wilder/MacLaine/Lemmon movie that doesn't hold up, not The Apartment

Never actually seen it. Just watched the trailer yesterday. It's mostly a cartoon. The trailer, that is.

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