Really? Lost Weekend over Sunset Blvd. and Ace in the Hole? I mean, all three are fucking amazing, but…

Billy Wilder is my favorite Hollywood studio director. I honestly haven’t seen a movie of his I don’t like. I just as easily could have chosen Ace in the Hole or Sunset Blvd as they are both great films and top tier Wilder, but I just have a personal preference for The Lost Weekend. It’s so dark for a studio film and I love the surrealism, but at the same time I find his outrageous alcoholic binge to be somehow romantic, as he wanders around all weekend avoiding responsibilities in a drunken abyss. It’s kind of the opposite of the moral the film hopes to achieve, but that almost makes it even better for me haha.

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meltedspinningplastic said: All of those films are great, but my problem with Wilder is his lack of a signature style. Many of his films do not bear his fingerprints. He was much more of a craftsman than an auteur. A great craftsman, but one nonetheless.
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