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The stark and terrifying study of a dipsomaniac which Charles R. Jackson wrote so vividly and truly in his novel, "The Lost Weekend," has been brought to the screen with great fidelity in every...
He approved of movies with social content, such as Gone with the Wind (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Citizen Kane (1941), The Lost Weekend (1945), All the King's Men (1949), and High Noon (1952).
Aug 26, 2024 · The Oscar winner for Best Picture of 1945 was ground-breaking in its depiction of a man seduced by the bottle but who tried to wiggle his way out of its grip. Hollywood hadn't covered the subject before. I review "The Lost Weekend".
The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder, 1945) The film recounts the life of an alcoholic New York writer, Don Birnam (Ray Milland), over the last half of a six-year period, and in particular on a weekend alcoholic binge.
- Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry
Has living off his brother's largesse left him humiliated to the point where only booze can numb the pain of self loathing? Is it a midlife crisis given his perceived lack of success? Did he drink to inspire his fingers to bash out those stories on the typewriter, convinced a little fire in the belly would inspire the mind?
Aug 3, 2010 · In some ways, The Lost Weekend is as interesting as a time capsule of what was considered "groundbreaking" 65 years ago as it is an enduring or timeless drama. Few who watch The Lost Weekend in 2010 will find that it offers insight not found elsewhere - a statement that was not true in 1945.
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Nov 12, 2011 · “The Lost Weekend” had earlier won the New York Film Critics Circle Award, then under the leadership of the N.Y. Times’ middlebrow critic Bosley Crowther, who found the film “most commendable distinction,” in being “a straight objective report, unvarnished with editorial comment or temperance morality.”
