A-Z #13: The Apartment

You can pick up hundreds of DVD's for a buck each - it doesn't matter. Its never about quantity, its about quality. A-Z is my way of going through my collection, from A-Z, and justifying why I own the films...

#13 - The Apartment

Why did I buy it?

It is constantly on those 'Best Film of All Time' lists and Adam Kempenaar constantly raves about it on Filmspotting. Had to be done... it was just a matter of time before I snapped it up for a fiver. From Fopp.

Why do I still own it?

Because it is a great film, with a brilliant character in Jack Lemmon. I personally seemed to fall into that category whereby my friends-who-are-hot-girls turned out to be girls-I-fancied and, inevitably, this generally ruined the friendship. The Apartment shows a situation whereby the 'nice-guy' gets the girl. Happy days indeed.

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The Simon and Jo Film Show: 19/06/2010

This week, we begin from Ben and Jerry's on Leicester Square to cover, for our main review, Noah Baumbach's 'Greenberg', then we move on to discuss the new releases and box office in London.

To finish we have a nice classic edge as Simon watches two classic movies: Billy Wilders 'The Apartment' and George Steven's 'Shane' - Simon's Dad's favourite Film of All Time. Quite incredible indeed.

Links

We mentioned the positive criticism for Please Give and Greenberg on the untouchable Filmspotting podcast and, additionally, the lads at /Film informed us about MacGruber.

Music

All music is from the soundtrack to Greenberg - which can be found on itunes and Amazon amongst other places. But alas, we finish with a nice World Cup song - 'Wavin' Flag'...

Favourite Film Faces #1: Jack Lemmon in The Apartment

Having just watched Billy Wilder's the Apartment for the first time ever, I cannot believe how great it is! Nevertheless, to kick-off the 'Favourite Faces' blog posts I have selected Jack Lemmon - and the moment he realises that, having brought a girl back to his apartment, no other than Ms Kublick (Shirley Maclaine) is sleeping in his bed ...