The Apartment (Blu-ray)

Movie-wise, there has never been anything like it - laugh-wise, love-wise, or otherwise-wise!
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Blu-ray Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: December 11, 2018
  • Originally Released: 2018
  • Label: Arrow Video

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Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1960 - Best Art Direction - Set Decoration (b&w): Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1960 - Best Director: Billy Wilder
Academy Awards 1960 - Best Film Editing: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1960 - Best Original Screenplay: Billy Wilder & I. A. L. Diamond
Academy Awards 1960 - Best Picture: Not Applicable

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By the time he made THE APARTMENT, Wilder had become a master at a kind of sardonic, satiric comedy that had sadness at its center.
Chicago Sun-Times
Jul 22, 2001
...This seductive, bittersweet 1960 classic was Billy Wilder's last great film....Its layers of satire and genuine tenderness resonate... -- 5 out of 5 stars
Total Film
Jan 1, 2000
Fun fact: The romantic dramedy doubles as a holiday film!
USA Today
Apr 8, 2021
Rating: 5/5 -- Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine shine as two essentially good souls trapped in a tangle of office politics. Full Review
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Jun 14, 2012
5 stars out of 5 -- Lemmon gives on of his best performances ever, in a part written specifically for him...
Ultimate DVD
May 1, 2008
Wilder, a bilious and mercurial wit, here becomes a wide-screen master of time ...
New Yorker
Jul 1, 2013
Billy Wilder's narrative eloquence, its spectacular scenes, the fantastic soundtrack signed by Adolph Deutsch and the brilliance and charm of its two protagonists make it an absolute delight. [Full Review in Spanish] Full Review
Espinof
Aug 30, 2019

Product Description:

Billy Wilder's THE APARTMENT blends his customary harsh cynicism with a humane streak that appears only fleetingly in his films. It stars Jack Lemmon as C.C. Baxter, an office clerk who curries favor with the executives in his office by giving them the key to his small apartment for the odd afternoon dalliance. Among them his is his callous boss, J.D. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray), who Baxter eventually learns is using his place to sleep with Miss Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine), the sweet elevator operator the clerk has loved from afar. When Sheldrake coldly dumps the vulnerable young woman, she tries to commit suicide, but is saved by the intervention of Baxter. As the clerk lovingly nurses the young woman back to health he begins to realize, with the help of epigrammatic neighbor Dr. Dreyfuss (Jack Kruschen), exactly how much of a fool he has been. Wilder brilliant depiction of the average American office as a place of brutality, coldness, and alienation conjure up Kafka and Marx. The director seduces the audience into what appears to be an unusually frank sex comedy, but turns the tables in displaying the consequences of the executive's cold indifference. Lemmon and MacLaine both give career performances and MacMurray is memorable as the blandly smiling snake.

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