The Apartment (Blu-ray)
Movie-wise, there has never been anything like it - laugh-wise, love-wise, or otherwise-wise!
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The Apartment (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: January 24, 2012
- Originally Released: 1960
- Label: Mgm (Video & Dvd)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Fred MacMurray, Jack Lemmon & Shirley MacLaine | |
Performer: | Edie Adams, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, Joan Shawlee, Hope Holiday, Naomi Stevens, David Lewis & Joyce Jameson | |
Directed by | Billy Wilder | |
Edited by | Daniel Mandell | |
Screenwriting by | Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond | |
Composition by | Adolph Deutsch | |
Produced by | Billy Wilder | |
Director of Photography: | Joseph LaShelle |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1960 -
Best Art Direction - Set Decoration (b&w): Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1960 -
Best Director: Billy Wilder
Academy Awards 1960 -
Best Film Editing: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1960 -
Best Original Screenplay: Billy Wilder & I. A. L. Diamond
Academy Awards 1960 -
Best Picture: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
Directed by Wilder with attention to detail and emotional reticence that belie its inherent darkness and melodramatic core, it's lifted considerably by the performances.
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Time Out
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Production and direction wise, Wilder sustains his usual excellence. But his story is controversial and I am not one of those who can quite see The Apartment as the great comedy-drama he evidently intended it to be.
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New York Daily News
Rating: 3/5 --
Wilder has made some truly great movies, but this one is not the masterpiece we thought it was.
Little White Lies
Rating: 4/4 --
A screen gem that attained classic status in about as much time as it takes to comb one's hair.
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Film Frenzy
Wilder, a bilious and mercurial wit, here becomes a wide-screen master of time ...
New Yorker
By the time he made THE APARTMENT, Wilder had become a master at a kind of sardonic, satiric comedy that had sadness at its center.
Chicago Sun-Times
...This seductive, bittersweet 1960 classic was Billy Wilder's last great film....Its layers of satire and genuine tenderness resonate... -- 5 out of 5 stars
Total Film
Product Description:
Billy Wilder's THE APARTMENT blends his customary harsh cynicism with a humane streak that appears only fleetingly in his films. It stars Jack Lemmon as C.C. Baxter, an office clerk who curries favor with the executives in his office by giving them the key to his small apartment for the odd afternoon dalliance. Among them his is his callous boss, J.D. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray), who Baxter eventually learns is using his place to sleep with Miss Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine), the sweet elevator operator the clerk has loved from afar. When Sheldrake coldly dumps the vulnerable young woman, she tries to commit suicide, but is saved by the intervention of Baxter. As the clerk lovingly nurses the young woman back to health he begins to realize, with the help of epigrammatic neighbor Dr. Dreyfuss (Jack Kruschen), exactly how much of a fool he has been. Wilder brilliant depiction of the average American office as a place of brutality, coldness, and alienation conjure up Kafka and Marx. The director seduces the audience into what appears to be an unusually frank sex comedy, but turns the tables in displaying the consequences of the executive's cold indifference. Lemmon and MacLaine both give career performances and MacMurray is memorable as the blandly smiling snake.
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