I just now realized their was a classic films group!

[kimmerspixelated]

I love TCM, too! I almost always click there first to see what's showing! I have so many favs, I couldn't possibly begin to count them all, but I have a question:

What's your fav. Billy Wilder movie?


I would have to say, SOME LIKE IT HOT! But I love everything he ever did! Masterful director!

[lavenderdiva]

1. Welcome!

glad to see you found us!

Favorite Billy Wilder movie-- whoa, that's hard. There's so many to choose from!!! Sunset Boulevard, Double Indemnity, Sabrina, Seven Year Itch, Some Like It Hot, The Lost Weekend, The Bishop's Wife, Ninotchka, Witness For The Prosecution, The Spirit Of St. Louis, Ocean's Eleven.... Wow!!!! Has any current writer OR director had this sort of success? I think not. To have written so many of our classics, and directed them too, is quite a statement.

:hi:

[CBHagman]

2. Welcome!

:hi: It's nice to see a new face here.

As for favorite Billy Wilder screenplays/films, boy, that's a difficult one. I guess I have a soft spot for Ball of Fire, as far as stories go. But I'm completely undecided about the films. I can always find an excuse to watch The Apartment, Some Like It Hot, or Sabrina.

[NYCGirl]

3. I have to say my favorite Billy Wilder movie was also Wilder's favorite of his:

Ace in the Hole (sometimes titled The Big Carnival)

One of the most scathing indictments of American culture ever produced by a Hollywood filmmaker, Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole is legendary for both its cutting social critique and its status as a hard-to-find cult classic. Kirk Douglas gives the fiercest performance of his career as Chuck Tatum, an amoral newspaper reporter caught in dead-end Albuquerque who happens upon the story of a lifetime—and will do anything to ensure he gets the scoop. Wilder’s follow-up to Sunset Boulevard is an even darker vision, a no-holds-barred exposé that anticipated the rise of the American media circus.

http://www.criterion.com/films/829

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_in_the_Hole_%28film%29

http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/cteq/01/19/ace.html