{"id":31,"date":"2014-06-17T01:24:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T01:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2025-01-01T12:21:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T17:21:22","slug":"review-the-apartment-1960","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"The Apartment-1960"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Apartment-1960<\/strong><\/p>\n

Director Billy Wilder<\/strong><\/p>\n

Starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scott’s Review #7<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Reviewed June 17, 2014<\/p>\n

Grade: A-<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Apartment (1960) is another gem by Billy Wilder (Sunset Boulevard, The Lost Weekend). This one is set in 1959 New York City, a setting and period I adore.<\/p>\n

The black-and-white images effectively portray the loneliness and bleakness of the characters, who are all friendless, sad, and starved for love.<\/p>\n

It questions social morality and getting ahead in the corporate world but goes from drama to romantic comedy with no sappiness.<\/p>\n

Quite the contrary, as the film has dark moments of despair and angst.<\/p>\n

The film influenced the television series “Mad Men”. As with most Billy Wilder films, there is a darkness of humanity, which is fascinating to watch.<\/p>\n

Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine are terrific, but their chemistry is lacking. Despite this, the film is still excellent.<\/p>\n

The Apartment (1960) won the Best Picture Oscar.<\/p>\n

Oscar Nominations<\/strong>: 5 wins<\/strong>-Best Motion Picture (won)<\/strong>, Best Director-Billy Wilder (won)<\/strong>, Best Actor-Jack Lemmon, Best Actress-Shirley MacLaine, Best Supporting Actor-Jack Kruschen, Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen (won)<\/strong>, Best Sound, Best Art Direction, Black-and-White (won)<\/strong>, Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Film Editing (won)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Apartment-1960 Director Billy Wilder Starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine Scott’s Review #7 Reviewed June 17, 2014 Grade: A- The Apartment (1960) is another gem by Billy Wilder (Sunset Boulevard, The Lost Weekend). This one is set in 1959 New York City, a setting and period I adore. The black-and-white images effectively portray the loneliness … Continue reading The Apartment-1960<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,42,515,49,192,4037,5175,653,4399,4892,45,222,675],"tags":[57,58,518,252,193,4039,5176,655,4404,4896,95,221,676],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1960-films","category-bestpictureoscar","category-billy-wilder","category-comedies","category-dramas","category-fred-macmurray","category-jack-kruschen","category-jack-lemmon","category-paul-picerni","category-ray-walston","category-romcoms","category-romantic-dramas","category-shirley-maclaine","tag-1960-movie-reviews","tag-best-picture-oscar-winners","tag-billy-wilder","tag-comedies","tag-dramas-2","tag-fred-macmurray","tag-jack-kruschen","tag-jack-lemmon","tag-paul-picerni","tag-ray-walston","tag-romantic-comedies","tag-romantic-dramas","tag-shirley-maclaine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21000,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/21000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}