Might as well go to mine. Everybody else does.
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...