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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...
Aug 26, 2024 · I review "The Lost Weekend". 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.
The Lost Weekend was a runaway suc-cess, and one of the first novels to deal with the ravages of the hardcore boozehound. Within five years it had sold nearly half a million copies, including a Modern Library edition. Walter Winchell praised it as “the Uncle Tom’s Cabin” of alcoholism.
Oct 23, 2018 · The New York Times film reviewer Bosley Crowther found Big Daddy’s line—”Something’s missing here!”—emblematic of what the Production Code Administration or Hays Office had done in prohibiting the suggestion of homo-sexuality in the film: left the filmgoer “baffled” at the lack of “logical conflict” and character motivation.
Aug 3, 2010 · Thus, The Lost Weekend, in which there is no hint of humor, stands apart as an early attempt to dramatize the deleterious effects of alcohol abuse by providing a protagonist who is sympathetic but not loveable.
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.”
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.
