
The Apartment
- Sat, Mar 15
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Director: Billy Wilder Run Time: 125 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 1960
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Jack Kruschen, Jack Lemmon, Ray Walston, Shirley MacLaine
Screenwriters: Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond
Producer: Billy Wilder
We’re spending the afternoon with film historian, author, podcaster, and Founding Member Karina Longworth and two utterly charming Billy Wilder classics, tying into her ongoing series on the hit podcast You Must Remember This – The Old Man is Still Alive.
Join us for this adorably romantic classic from Billy Wilder. Jack Lemmon plays Bud Baxter – an insignificant clerk in a major insurance conglomerate. Aching to climb the corporate ladder, he devises a scheme to loan out his apartment to the company’s big wigs as a place to bring their side dishes in private. His brilliant plan goes awry when he discovers the adorable girl from the elevator he’s been flirting with (Shirley MacLaine at her peak cuteness) is also his boss’ mistress. Winner of 5 Academy Awards and generally regarded as one of the best films ever made, The Apartment is a poignant romantic comedy that never gets old.
The Old Man is Still Alive tells the story of 14 directors — including Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, John Huston and more — whose careers began in the early decades of Hollywood, who were still making movies in the 60s and 70s and even 80s. In many cases, these directors, many of them Oscar winners or the men behind undeniable classics like It’s a Wonderful Life, My Fair Lady, Sunset Boulevard, Gigi and Psycho, attempted – or were forced – to engage with massive changes in technology; sudden-seeming shifts in attitudes towards race and gender; and a new generation of studio executives and audiences who could be skeptical that an old man had anything to offer in a world obsessed with burning down the past and starting fresh. Some railed against the new “degenerate” cinema made by, in Billy Wilder’s phrase, “the kids with beards” and tried to keep doing what they had been doing for 30 years; others were quick to try to get with the times by making films that confronted the generation gap and a transformed society (even dropping acid as “research”); others fell somewhere in between.
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