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Scenes We Love: 'The Apartment'
28 December 2010 9:30 AM, PST | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
Filed under: Features, Cinematical
Note: This article spoils 'The Apartment' as much as 'The Apartment' could ever really be spoiled.
It's been fifty years since Billy Wilder's 'The Apartment' won an Oscar for Best Picture, and not only does it remain one of the best romantic comedies that Hollywood has ever produced, but it's also still one of the darkest. A corporate fable equally indebted to Ernst Lubitsch and the timeless appeal of mousy women, 'The Apartment' is a spiked ode to the joys of the moral high ground, and the ultimate fantasy for all the nice guys out there who are patiently waiting for life to reward their compassion.
Ostensibly set in 1960's Manhattan, each viewing of 'The Apartment' adds to the feeling that the film actually transpires in a post-apocalyptic hell, an 'I Am Legend' riff where a plague has swept through the city, »
- David Ehrlich
Scenes We Love: 'The Apartment'
28 December 2010 9:30 AM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Filed under: Features, Cinematical
Note: This article spoils 'The Apartment' as much as 'The Apartment' could ever really be spoiled.
It's been fifty years since Billy Wilder's 'The Apartment' won an Oscar for Best Picture, and not only does it remain one of the best romantic comedies that Hollywood has ever produced, but it's also still one of the darkest. A corporate fable equally indebted to Ernst Lubitsch and the timeless appeal of mousy women, 'The Apartment' is a spiked ode to the joys of the moral high ground, and the ultimate fantasy for all the nice guys out there who are patiently waiting for life to reward their compassion.
Ostensibly set in 1960's Manhattan, each viewing of 'The Apartment' adds to the feeling that the film actually transpires in a post-apocalyptic hell, an 'I Am Legend' riff where a plague has swept through the city, »
- David Ehrlich
Frank Capra at the BFI - review
17 December 2010 4:07 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
It's A Wonderful Life is a Christmas tradition – and the film that has preserved Frank Capra's popularity. It is too easy to dismiss his work as sentimental, prudish and politically naive, argues Michael Newton. Many of his movies are still magical
Of all Hollywood directors, Frank Capra is the most loved and the least respected. From the early 1930s to the mid 40s, as the maker of such classic movies as It Happened One Night (1934), You Can't Take It with You (1938) and Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939), he achieved fame, won Oscars and found huge audiences. Yet for every film-fan who warms to his work, there's a hard-nosed critic eager to pounce on this purveyor of "Capra-corn". He offers a personal vision, but it's one that has been judged suspect, offering up a sentimental and duplicitous Americanism. To those on the left, he has seemed a fascist; to those on the right, »
The Shop Around the Corner – review
11 December 2010 4:07 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Twice remade (as the Judy Garland musical In the Good Old Summertime, then as the Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan vehicle You've Got Mail), Lubitsch's 1940 original, set in Budapest, is the real thing. One of the greatest romantic comedies, it centres on two reserved people (James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan, delightfully awkward together), working in the same smart Budapest boutique, who become anonymous pen friends. It's funny, touching and beautifully paced with numerous examples of the celebrated "Lubitsch touch". It anticipates (in its Christmas setting, painful revelation of adultery, attempted suicide, shy secret lover and a cast sharing the same workplace) a much darker comedy by a Lubitsch admirer, Billy Wilder's The Apartment. A very welcome revival.
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- Philip French
The Top 10 Alternative Christmas Films!
8 December 2010 4:28 PM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
It’s that time of year again; it’s dark at 4pm, the air is crisp and often below freezing, lights twinkle from every crevice and you’re already sick of hearing Mariah Carey warble “All I Want for Christmas is You”… Yes, it’s Christmas time again and as the festive period draws ever closer, avoiding succumbing to the cheer and joy is a daily battle you’re sure to lose.
Now I’m not a Grinch – in fact I’m far from it, the lead up to the big day is one of my favourite times of the year (I think inside, I’m actually still about 6 and three quarters!) – but the gloss and exaggerated schmaltz of the period can certainly become tiresome very quickly.
Now I don’t want to belittle the sickly saccharine taste of holiday romantic comedies (Love Actually is a classic), the formulaic overcoming »
- Stuart Cummins
Oscar's Collection: The Youngest Best Actress Nominees
28 October 2010 6:50 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Another Oscar Trivia Explosion. This time it's the Actresses.
Jennifer Lawrence made quite a film-carrying impression in Winter's Bone this past summer. It was one of the leggiest arthouse hits in some time, playing for months, and wracking up $6+ million without a huge advertising budget or bankable stars and with grim subject matter. Well done. At Christmas Hailee Steinfeld will lead us on a revenge journey in True Grit. While we suspect she's the lead actress as well, people her age are almost always demoted to "Supporting" if they're sharing the screen with a big star as co-lead and she is. Hi, Jeff Bridges! But we're pretending she's an Oscar lead today so as to have double the excuse to make this list. Humour us, won'cha?
Imaginary Movie: Steinfeld. Lawrence. Winter's True Bone.
36 Youngest Best Actress NomineesAnd where Jennifer or Hailee would fit in, were they to be nominated. (Winning performances are in red. »
- NATHANIEL R
The Apartment: No 6
16 October 2010 3:49 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Billy Wilder, 1960
Fresh off Some Like It Hot, the director, Billy Wilder, his co-writer, Ial Diamond, and their star, Jack Lemmon, bowled straight into making The Apartment. Two perfect comedies in a row: how's that for a double whammy? The germ of the idea for The Apartment had actually sat in Wilder's notebook for many years, ever since he watched Brief Encounter and scribbled down the words "Movie about the guy who climbs into the warm bed left by two lovers."
Cc "Bud" Baxter (Lemmon) is the poor sap in question. He's rising fast at work, one promotion after another, but the secret of his success is that he loans out his apartment to the company executives for their trysts, one 45-minute slot at a time. It's a sleazy little set-up, and Wilder keeps the movie galloping along so briskly that we can overlook the unpleasantness at first. But then »
- Ryan Gilbey
Jane Kaczmarek on Bryan Cranston: 'He's still running around in his underwear.'
27 September 2010 3:40 PM, PDT | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
Jane Kaczmarek may be the least surprised of anyone that Bryan Cranston is about to host "Saturday Night Live."
The winner of three consecutive best-drama-actor Emmy Awards for one of series television's edgiest roles -- teacher, cancer patient and meth maker-dealer Walter White on AMC's "Breaking Bad" -- Cranston presides over NBC's late-night Saturday staple this weekend (Oct. 2). Having been his on-screen "wife" for seven years on the Fox sitcom "Malcolm in the Middle," Kaczmarek knows the breadth he's capable of.
"He's still running around in his underwear," she notes to Zap2it with a hearty laugh. "I don't think I've ever known any actor more comfortable in his 'tighty whiteys' than Bryan Cranston. And you should hear him sing! The only thing he's got left to do is that fabulous Broadway belt of his. He should do musicals.
"I loved working with him," Kaczmarek states, "largely because I knew he had this spectacular ability. »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Is 3D finding a new home in arthouse cinema?
12 September 2010 5:15 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
As the number of Hollywood 3D movies continues to proliferate, there are signs that the process is gaining popularity among independent filmmakers...
For more than a century, makers of 3D films have been finding new ways of poking audiences in the eye. Since the first stereoscopic film appeared in 1903, the Lumière brothers' minute-long L'arrivée D'un Train, the process has been roundly associated with novelty and spectacle.
In the 20s, 3D was used to depict the vastness of landscapes in films including New York City and the Grand Canyon, before seeing a brief resurgence in popularity in the 50s, with low budget genre pictures such as House Of Wax and It Came From Outer Space.
Fast-forward to the 21st century, and 3D is again being pushed by Hollywood studios as the next big thing and, in an echo of earlier years, is frequently employed to add depth to expansive vistas (most »
The film that changed my life: Stephen Merchant
28 August 2010 4:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
I enjoy lots of films, but there aren't many that are like a very nourishing Christmas dinner, where you feel sated, full, satisfied, and a bit smug, but that's how I feel when I watch The Apartment. It presses all my buttons. They just get everything right.
The performances are wonderful - Shirley MacLaine is luminous - and it's funny and tragic, in its own way. It's perceptive and yet at times there are little moments of comic absurdity. It feels incredibly mature and it showed me an alternative way of handling comedy. That you could take seemingly small incidents in uneventful people's lives and magnify that into something moving and epic and magical.
Its visual style is seemingly very simple, as Billy Wilder is not a very showy director, and that was something that really appealed to me. It didn't have to be about David »
- Jessica Hopkins
Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine Will Star in the Coprse-Centric Richard Linklater Comedy Bernie
6 August 2010 4:40 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Taking a look down Jack Black’s resume, School of Rock is the most critically acclaimed movie that the comic actor ever toplined. So, in what has the makings of a savvy career move, Black will reunite with Rock director Richard Linklater for the dark comedy Bernie. According to THR, the legendary Shirley MacLaine will likewise get top billing with a role that… heck, I’m gonna call it now: this will be her memorable performance since Terms of Endearment. Maybe even The Apartment. Here’s a brief plot outline:
“Bernie is set in the small town of Carthage, Texas and follows a Renaissance man-community leader-mortician Bernie (Black) who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a wealthy but very particular widow (MacLaine). When he kills her, he goes to great lengths to maintain the illusion that she is still alive.”
Any titular/thematic relation to Weekend at Bernie’s is (unfortunately) coincidence, »
- Brendan Bettinger
Interview With James Mangold – Director of Knight & Day
6 August 2010 4:00 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
We recently spoke with James Mangold at a round table interview to discuss his new film, Knight and Day.
During the interview he spoke about internet pedants, 3D and, of course, working with Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz.
Q: How did you find shooting the film? With so many effects and stunts, this is a real departure, isn’t it?
Jm: Well, there was definitely a lot of planning in advance. We did that on Yuma for a number of sequences, but, there was a large amount of action in this picture, that required a lot of planning.
It was, in that sense, different; it was, in that sense a learning curve for me. I think I also wanted to do it differently. I really didn’t want the action scene completely storyboarded. I wanted to feel character in the action sequence, and not just action and intensity. I think »
- Ben Mortimer
James Mangold interview: Knight And Day, Tom Cruise, and the 'disarray' of Hollywood
2 August 2010 8:36 PM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Knight And Day director James Mangold talks passionately about Hollywood, Tom Cruise, 3D and continuity errors...
In London to promote his Tom Cruise action comedy Knight And Day, director James Mangold was kind enough to give us twenty-five minutes of his time for a round table discussion about the state of Hollywood, his opinions on 3D, and fault-finding movie geeks...
I have an entire book of questions...
My God, really?
No, I'm only joking. How did you find shooting the film? I mean, all your films are kind of different, but this one's a real departure isn't it, with action scenes and effects and so on?
There was a lot of planning in advance. I mean, we did that on 3:10 To Yuma for certain scenes, but there was a large amount of action sequences in this movie that required a lot of planning. It was, in that sense, different »
He Said – She Said … ‘Robin Hood’
17 May 2010 12:25 PM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
Load up on arrows and bring your friends to the latest edition of “He Said – She Said …” which puts Robin Hood under the Tsr microscope. This week it’s Morrow “I thought Russell Crowe was sexy as all hell” McLaughlin and myself, Nick “… Did I lock the door to my apartment?” Allen sparring off (but mostly agreeing) about just how good the new film from Ridley Scott really is. Did we like it? Love it? Hate it? Find out below. As always, spoilers are fair game.
Jeff Bayer’s Robin Hood Tsr – 5/10
Plot: Robin Longstride (Crowe) is an archer in Richard the Lionheart’s English army around 1200 A.D. He’s mistaken for a man from Nottingham and learns his true destiny. Meanwhile the English are under threat from a French invasion.
He Said
Half way through the semi-slow experience of the semi-fun new version of Robin Hood, I began »
- Nick Allen
Promises Not Delivered!
15 May 2010 1:24 AM, PDT | www.culturecatch.com | See recent CultureCatch news »
Promises, Promises
I was in college when the original Promises, Promises played on Broadway. It was 1968, and the musical featured a score by the noted pop team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David, with a book by Neil Simon, based on Billy Wilde's Oscar winning movie The Apartment, which starred Jack Lemmon. The score marked another example of the infusion of pop music into Broadway scores, and Promises, Promises proved to be a big hit, running for over two years. It wasn't a great musical, but it was highly enjoyable, and Broadway legend Jerry Orbach won a well-deserved Tony for his performance in the leading role.
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- James Miller
Aaron Sorkin defends Newsweek's Ramin Setoodeh over Sean Hayes article
14 May 2010 1:22 PM, PDT | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »
Writer-producer Aaron Sorkin ("A Few Good Men," "Sports Night," "The West Wing") has come to the defense on the Huffington Post of Newsweek writer Ramin Setoodeh, in response to all the backlash about Setoodeh's piece where he said gay actors can't and shouldn't play straight characters.
We'll just let the piece speak for itself:
This is a sentence I never thought I would type: I'm coming to the defense of a theatre critic.
Newsweek's Ramin Setoodeh wrote an article last week titled "Straight Jacket" in which he argues that gay actors can't and shouldn't play straight characters. His "Exhibit A" in the piece is Sean Hayes, the stunningly gifted actor who came to our attention playing Jack MacFarland on the much beloved NBC half-hour comedy Will and Grace. (This was back when NBC broadcast television shows.) Mr. Hayes just opened in the Broadway revival of Promises, Promises, a 1968 musical by Neil Simon, »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Now That You Mention It, Rock Hudson Did Seem Gay
12 May 2010 3:34 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
This is a sentence I never thought I would type: I'm coming to the defense of a theatre critic. Newsweek's Ramin Setoodeh wrote an article last week titled "Straight Jacket" in which he argues that gay actors can't and shouldn't play straight characters. His "Exhibit A" in the piece is Sean Hayes, the stunningly gifted actor who came to our attention playing Jack MacFarland on the much beloved NBC half-hour comedy Will and Grace. (This was back when NBC broadcast television shows.) Mr. Hayes just opened in the Broadway revival of Promises, Promises, a 1968 musical by Neil Simon, Burt Bacharach and Hal David that was based on The Apartment, the Academy Award-winning film by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. (Izzy) Diamond that starred Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine. Are you following so far? It doesn't really matter, because all you need to know is that Sean Hayes plays C. »
- Aaron Sorkin
Cinematical Seven: Our Favorite Big-Screen Businessmen
28 April 2010 8:45 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
This week's re-release of Oliver Stone's Wall Street on DVD (a precurser to the upcoming sequel, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, slated for September) serves to remind of us of one of cinema's great businessmen: Gordon Gekko, played with smarmy avarice by Michael Douglas.
There have been a lot of great businessman characters throughout the history of film. Some sneaky, some sincere, some completely off their rocker. Here are a few favorites.
C.C. Baxter and Jeff Sheldrake, The Apartment
Jack Lemmon's struggling, miserable clerk Baxter will do anything to get ahead -- including loaning his apartment to his married bosses for afternoon trysts. What seems like merely a bad idea becomes a nightmare when he finds out that his married boss Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray) is making time with the elevator girl (Shirley MacLaine) that Baxter secretly adores. Billy Wilder's comedy has a weird, dark undercurrent of pain, »
- Dawn Taylor
Will 'Promises, Promises' be fulfilled at Tony Awards?
26 April 2010 8:52 AM, PDT | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »
The first rialto revival of the 1969 musical "Promises, Promises" opened Sunday night to decidedly mixed reviews. This tuneful version of 1960 best picture Oscar champ "The Apartment" has quite the pedigree. Neil Simon adapted the Oscar-winning screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L Diamond while Hal David and Burt Bacharach provided the words and music. Critics cheered Emmy champ Sean Hayes ("Will & Grace") making his Broadway debut as the hapless Chuck Baxter, who longs for a co-worker -- unlucky-in-love Fran Kubelik. Jerry Orbach landed a lead actor Tony in 1969 for bringing to the stage this part first played on film by Jack Lemmon. Awards darling Kristin Chenoweth fared less well, with most reviewers »
- tomoneil
My hero Billy Wilder, by David Nicholls
23 April 2010 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
'It's the sweet, sour quality that I love in Wilder's movies'
It's often forgotten in this era of movies-on-demand, but there was a time when you could wait years for a chance to see Some Like It Hot. In the late 70s I stayed up to watch it and became an immediate fan of Billy Wilder. Romantic comedy, farce, film noir, drama, war film, satire – Wilder and his collaborators excelled in them all, and yet it's fair to say he's not the most "cinematic" of directors. His priorities are character and story, and in this sense he's very much a writer's director. He uses voice-over, that most novelistic of screen devices, and relishes smart talk, much of which bears the stamp of his personality: droll, urbane, quick-witted, sometimes barbed or vulgar but also heartfelt, touching.
For all his sardonic pronouncements, Wilder worked wonderfully with actors, and the movies are crammed »
- David Nicholls
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