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No 27 – Some Like it Hot Director – Billy Wilder EGADS !! Almost an entire month has passed without me blogging. If I continue at this rate I’ll still be watching these films when I’m 50. Well, I firmly believe I’ll still be watching THIS film when I’m 50. I love it. It is genius. This is a very important film; it is the film which convinced my youngest sister not to dismiss Black and White films. It is also the film with the funniest closing line ever. This film is most well known for the middle section in which Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis dress up as women to join an all-girl jazz band. Yet there is so much more in this film. Some of it works utterly utterly brilliantly while others feel out of place. I’m going to begin with the out of place elements so that I can then begin spouting on about the bits of the film I love. The film is set in the 1920’s and the opening scenes do an excellent job of showing the excess and the glamour of the illegal speakeasies. It sets up the characters...

No 12 - The Apartment Director - Billy Wilder "The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax and why it has been so bloody long since a blog on this site". I apologise. I truly truly do. My actual life has been a massive interruption to my cinematic lazings . However I have moved house and am ready to continue watching films in shiny new Putney surroundings. The Apartment is the highest ranking comedy on the top 500 (if we don't count Singin ' in the Rain) and is a good 15 places above Some Like it Hot - a film I had often assumed was the greatest comedy of all time - so I was keen to check it out. It also has the excellent comedy stock of both Mr Billy Wilder and Mr Jack Lemmon . I was expecting something with the same crystal sharp delivery and pitch perfect wit of Some Like it Hot. I was wrong. This is a very different type of comedy. It is also a comedy of two halves, as the film slowly turns into a b...