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Billy Wilder’s
THE LOST WEEKEND in 35mm
Friday, December 26 – Thursday, January 1
U.S., 1945
Directed by Billy Wilder
Starring Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry
WINNER Academy Awards® – Best Picture, Best Director (Billy Wilder), Best Actor (Ray Milland), Best Adapted Screenplay
Approx. 101 min. 35mm.
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.” Failed writer Ray Milland hits the sauce and the bottom in Oscar® winner for Best Picture, Director, Screenplay (Wilder and Charles Brackett), and Actor (Milland). Among the famous sequences: the bat and mouse hallucination and the desperate trek for money past location-shot Third Ave. pawn shops closed for Yom Kippur.
A UNIVERSAL PICTURES RELEASE
Reviews
“Startlingly original on its release, this stark little drama keeps its power, especially in the scenes on New York streets. It could scarcely have been more effectively filmed.”
– Leslie Halliwell
“New York brutally stripped of all glamour.”
– Tom Milne