The Lost Weekend (1945)

**Part of the Best Picture Project** Alcoholism is a trait that runs rampant through my family, and it ran with me as much as it did to some of my family members. I feel that you can not see exactly how bad it is until you hit rock bottom. In April 2010, I hit rock…

Mary Conti

The Lost Weekend is about an alcoholic writer, and his weekend he lost on a bender. It’s got elements of noir but fundamentally it’s more of a character study. I wasn’t really expecting that performance from Ray Milland as well, who wasn’t at all on my radar. I’d never…

Ethan Colburn

Who needs enemies, when you’ve got friends that make studio films about your raging alcoholism?  That’s exactly the favor that director Billy Wilder paid to Raymond Chandler; ‘inspired’ by his difficulties working with the writer on “Double Indemnity.”  While classified…

theriverjordan

Action! - Three Auteurs: The Witty and Eclectic Mr. Wilder When I initially saw this film, I was trying to check it off the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die" list and didn't give it much attention. Though much of what is depicted here is transferable to the…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

The Lost Weekend stages with amazing modernity the physical and psychological travails of a man prisoner of his addiction to whiskey. It is with this film that the theme of alcoholism - until then treated on the screen in a simplistic and superficial way - is proposed in a…

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Ladies and gentlemen, the weekend 😓

Chris Feil

Noirvember Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend is a serious look at alcoholism and addiction, that still has a power even through the restraints of its time. In a way, it succeeds because it isn't disgusting and nasty. Instead it presents the emotional turmoil that comes…

Darren Carver-Balsiger

From the very first shot of a bottle dangling from a window to the final image of a (hallucinated) bat eating a mouse — with blood running down the wall, one of the most gruesome and horrifying things I’ve seen on film (and we’re talking 1945 here!) — The Lost Weekend is as…

Rizki

“love is the hardest thing in the world to write about—it’s so simple. you’ve gotta catch it through details. like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house; the ringing of a telephone that sounds like beethoven’s pastoral; a…

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