Serena Dandini (photo by Gianmarco Chieregato).
ORr movies can be seen on a thousand TV platforms and we have the power to stop them, start over all over again or fast forward if some scenes bore us.
Unthinkable just a few years ago when, in the velvety darkness of a movie theater, with hypnotized eyes on the big screen, we did not miss a frame of the precious films.
I am not a traditionalist and I welcome any technological innovation with childish enthusiasm, but I must confess that I feel a strong nostalgia for that rite celebrated in silence with the utmost sacredness together with complete strangers and I hope that the so-called crisis of the cinemas is still an effect of the disaccustomity due to the lockdowns and the prolongation of their psychological effect.
I hope we will return to the cinema en masse and we could instead take advantage of the great home offer to review some historical films: there are those who do it scientifically retracing the complete filmography of great directors and in this case I would recommend the complete work of the brilliant Billy Wilder who gave us unforgettable masterpieces.
From Sunset boulevard up to Some like it hot you are spoiled for choice and still today the modernity of the plots and the freshness of the dialogues of the films of this great filmmaker, father of romantic comedy and master of noir, who lived almost a hundred years continuing to work enthusiastically to the end, amaze.
“The Apartment. Analysis of the screenplay by Billy Wilder and IAL Diamond ”by Franca De Angelis and Andrea Minuz (Dino Audino Editore).
These days it comes out in bookstores, published by Dino Audino Editore, The Apartment. Analysis of the script by Billy Wilder and IAL Diamond by Franca De Angelis and Andrea Minuz: a detailed study of one of the director’s most beautiful scripts written together with his lifelong partner Izzy Diamond, author of brilliant dialogues and memorable jokes.
The protagonist of The apartment is played by a sly Jack Lemmona small and obscure employee of an important insurance company who, in order to make a career, is forced to lend his bachelor flat to superiors for their gallant adventures, until he falls in love with the boss’s girl, an amazing and very modern Shirley MacLaine.
The authors analyze, disassemble and reassemble the script of this crackling comedythe result of a perfect mix of irony, romanticism, melancholy and rhythm.
To shake everything the famous “Wilder touch”, which turns every scriptwriter into goldto. To read and to see, even at the same time.
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