PT.2 - A Look Back: BILLY WILDER'S "THE APARTMENT"

A Look Back: BILLY WILDER'S "THE APARTMENT"
(MGM - UA / 28 mins. total)
Bill Wilder's 1960 "THE APARTMENT" would forever alter the course of the modern film. A drama with laugh aloud humor, and a comedy dealing with topics such as adultery and suicidal depression, it would clear the pathway for (among others) later similar thematic offspring such as the plays of Neil Simon, television series of Norman Lear, and films such as TERMS OF ENDEARMENT and SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK.
Critics (including Molly Haskell), cinema historians and even THE APARTMENT's own producer Walter Mirisch (THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, WEST SIDE STORY, IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT) shed contemporary light on the film which still packs a punch (both comedically and dramatically) today.
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