It's easy to say "They don't make 'em like that anymore," but they didn't often make 'em like that even back then.
― Justyn Dillingham, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Graham, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I don't remember it super-well but I think I'd still like Annie Hall more.
― sundar subramanian, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
$100? i don't call that cheap. and you must be paying somebody something for the use of the apartment.
― thieverend (tehresa), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 06:05 (fifteen years ago) link
y u braek heart all time?
― thieverend (tehresa), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 06:06 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/bobbysixer/frenchversion.jpg
also good
― Bob Six, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 09:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Great film. Great dialogue, cute Lemon, of it's time, hardly dated, awesome. And Shirley MacLaine in a elevator operator uniform OMG.
― NotEnough, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 10:27 (fifteen years ago) link
it's that time of year again. let us celebrate the apartment!
― tehresa, Sunday, 29 November 2009 01:28 (fourteen years ago) link
http://post-traumaticurbanism.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/the-apartment-billy-wilder-01.jpg
― I DIED, Sunday, 29 November 2009 01:44 (fourteen years ago) link
that shot is kind of stolen from the ol' silent The Crowd
― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 November 2009 02:22 (fourteen years ago) link
OK, the angle isn't the same here, but...
http://www.dailyplastic.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/crowd2-500.jpg
― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 November 2009 02:24 (fourteen years ago) link
is a good contender for my favourite film also.
that office shot, they used smaller desks and smaller *people* for the desks further away.
― koogs, Sunday, 29 November 2009 10:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Love, love, love The Apartment. I mistakenly said Breakfast at Tiffany's was my earliest film--it's The Apartment, year-wise.
― clemenza, Friday, March 30, 2012 2:23 PM
what the HELL?
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 March 2012 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
kind of sincerely can't imagine life without pre-1960 comedy, but i'm weird like that
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
Cameron Crowe is so pissed that he didn't come up with this.
― Raymond Dubious Davies (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 26 April 2012 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
the kinda shit they usually do in Hollywood instead of showing rep cinema
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 April 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
Jason Reitman's reading
don't understand this phrase
― goole, Thursday, 26 April 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
http://images4.static-bluray.com/reviews/5518_1_large.jpg
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 3 April 2018 06:19 (six years ago) link
crossposting this Andre Aciman remembrance of rep cinema past
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/7044-elsewhere-on-screen
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 16 August 2020 15:50 (three years ago) link
Adjusted for inflation, the $100 Sheldrake gives Fran is equivalent to $1,044.39 in today's dollars.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 06:09 (three months ago) link
Promises, promises.
― The Glittering Worldbuilders (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 06:50 (three months ago) link
so all those old dudes were fucking their mistresses in CC Baxter's bed, right?
― na (NA), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 14:00 (three months ago) link
Imagine the bedbugs.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 14:10 (three months ago) link