Two very small thoughts:
1.) Re-watching this movie really helps me fall asleep at night.
2.) Tonally, it's not really far off from TOP GUN: MAVERICK. Think about it, gentlemen.
Two very small thoughts:
1.) Re-watching this movie really helps me fall asleep at night.
2.) Tonally, it's not really far off from TOP GUN: MAVERICK. Think about it, gentlemen.
Two very small thoughts:
1.) Re-watching this movie really helps me fall asleep at night.
2.) Tonally, it's not really far off from TOP GUN: MAVERICK. Think about it, gentlemen.
I doubt you can find a good review for Billy Wilder's hit follow-up to his Best Picture-winning THE APARTMENT, but IRMA is proof that--in the sixties anyway--Billy's comedies were more haunting than other people's dramas. Jack Lemmon's honest cop, courting Shirley MacLaine's honest whore, discovers that an honest man must play a whoremaster, a gentleman must play a murderer, and many other ruses by which true love is permitted to exist in Wilder's truly unlovely world. Long damned by auteur…
Remember the iconic opening shot of Robert Wise's 1961 WEST SIDE STORY? Or rather shots: we go from helicopter shots of Manhattan to a dizzying overhead view of the Jets finger-snapping and dancing on a basketball court. Well, in the New York past according to a very 2021 Tony Kushner, we begin in a landscaping of terrifying bulldozed rubble--a ghetto New York that looks more like the Gaza Strip. Above this rubblescape sits a sign that reads "Slum Clearing--Soon to…