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the lost weekend

How do all Billy Wilder's films manage to stay so fresh and sharp? The Apartment, Some Like It Hot, Sunset Boulevard... -- they just don't seem to age or lose any of their power.

And now The Lost Weekend, from 1945 (!), which i hadn't seen yet. It is the grim and disturbing story of an alcoholic whose alibi of being an up and coming writer wore off years ago, and who is now spiralling down the drain during one long 'lost weekend'.

It's amazing this film was made at all in post-Prohibition, puritanical 1940's Hollywood, and even more amazing that it can still rank up there with, say, Leaving Las Vegas or Under the Volcano.

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