Days of Wine and Roses

“Days of Wine and Roses” is the closest that Blake Edwards ever came to being Billy Wilder.  It’s also the moment where their careers diverged - just as the ends of their respective works on alcoholism opposed one another in their endings.  After a string of films,…

theriverjordan

I've always been scared of alcohol. I'm scared not of its short-term consequences but of its ability to make one lose control in the long run. I'm scared of the long run and I'm scared of how easily it can turn into a habit. A habit that controls you more than you do the…

Lara Pop

Men will literally find a nice girl and fall in love with her and get married and get her hooked on drink to justify his own addiction and become full-blown alcoholics together and watch her sharply spiral out of her own control & into a life of eternal misery instead of…

Cormac 👑

It was in an interview with James Lipton that Jack Lemmon revealed his disease. He was addressing the host of Inside The Actors Studio and the budding actors sitting in the audience waiting on his every word, discussing the moment his character in this film, Joe Clay, stood…

Steven Sheehan

The true essence of addiction is masterfully depicted in Blake Edwards' Days of Wine and Roses, a film that begins with a misleadingly comedic tone reminiscent of Billy Wilder's The Apartment. Jack Lemmon, in another role perfectly suited to him, portrays an average Joe…

Rizki

You remember how it really was? You and me and booze. A threesome... If you want to grab on, grab on. But there’s just room for you and me, no threesome. this is the way I look when i'm sober... enough to make a person drink. A depressing and uncomfortable film in ways I…

Rocky🕵️🎞️

Gustav's #10 Film Selection for Edgar "They are not long, the days of wine and roses: Out of a misty dream Our path emerges for a while, then closes Within a dream. – Ernest Dowson, from "Vitae Summa Brevis" (1896). A screwball comedy in the first act, a jazzy…

Edgar Cochran ✝️🍋

Extra 1/2 for it being my first time seeing Jack in a dramatic role and him absolutely KILLING it. The greenhouse scene had me freaked out, after reading that John Frankenheimer was considered to direct it makes sense, it does seem like a picture he’d direct; but Blake…

Adrian

THE LOST WEEKEND (1945) BUT BETTER"You remember how it really was? You and me and booze a threesome. You and I were a couple of drunks on the sea of booze, and the boat sank. I got hold of something that kept me from going under, and I'm not going to let go of it. Not for…

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