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i think it might be my favorite movie.

― ethan, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

New "I haven't seen the movie but Ethan's asking me to post something because posting "new answers" is vulgar" Answers.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

mitchell, you bitch!

― ethan, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Look! That's 3 new answers in about 1 minute! What are you complaining about?

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

stop ruining my thread!

― ethan, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Fascist.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

HAS ANYONE SEEN THE APARTMENT?

― ethan, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

no, haven't heard of it. but I find your exchange amusing.

― Samantha, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

no. looks good. thanks for the rental idea

― kevin enas, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Good movie. Shirl = rowr. Unlikely ending: IRL she wd stick as best fwends and break his feckin heart as she twirled thru endless rubbish boyfs (21st-century update: girlfs), before she suddenly lost her looks'n'figure WACK at 41.

You know I'm right.

This isn't a remake is it ethan? W.Heath Ledger and er Christina Wwwricci?

― mark s, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Loser, which I just only raved about on In Review is a virtual remake of The Apartment. Better, I think. See Loser.

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Apartment is a damn near perfect movie. Even the unlikely ending is unexpectedly touching. "That's the way it crumbles, cookie-wise..."

It's easy to say "They don't make 'em like that anymore," but they didn't often make 'em like that even back then.

― Justyn Dillingham, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I also wuv Loser.

― Graham, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

They used to play it on public TV pretty frequently. Our whole family watched it a number of times when I was maybe 10, my sister 8. She said it was her favourite movie for a long time. Recently she was reminiscing and asked what it was about. When I told her, she acted shocked that she had been allowed to watch it. She claimed she'd never realized there was anything sex-related in the movie. ("I just thought it was an innocent comedy about Shirley MacLaine drinking martinis.")

I don't remember it super-well but I think I'd still like Annie Hall more.

― sundar subramanian, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

seven years pass...

$100? i don't call that cheap. and you must be paying somebody something for the use of the apartment.

― thieverend (tehresa), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 06:05 (sixteen years ago)

y u braek heart all time?

― thieverend (tehresa), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 06:06 (sixteen years ago)

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/bobbysixer/frenchversion.jpg

also good

― Bob Six, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 09:37 (sixteen years ago)

Great film. Great dialogue, cute Lemon, of it's time, hardly dated, awesome. And Shirley MacLaine in a elevator operator uniform OMG.

― NotEnough, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 10:27 (sixteen years ago)

ten months pass...

it's that time of year again. let us celebrate the apartment!

― tehresa, Sunday, 29 November 2009 01:28 (fifteen years ago)

http://post-traumaticurbanism.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/the-apartment-billy-wilder-01.jpg

― I DIED, Sunday, 29 November 2009 01:44 (fifteen years ago)

that shot is kind of stolen from the ol' silent The Crowd

― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 November 2009 02:22 (fifteen years ago)

OK, the angle isn't the same here, but...

http://www.dailyplastic.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/crowd2-500.jpg

― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 November 2009 02:24 (fifteen years ago)

is a good contender for my favourite film also.

that office shot, they used smaller desks and smaller *people* for the desks further away.

― koogs, Sunday, 29 November 2009 10:00 (fifteen years ago)

two years pass...

Love, love, love The Apartment. I mistakenly said Breakfast at Tiffany's was my earliest film--it's The Apartment, year-wise.

― clemenza, Friday, March 30, 2012 2:23 PM

what the HELL?

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 March 2012 18:32 (thirteen years ago)

kind of sincerely can't imagine life without pre-1960 comedy, but i'm weird like that

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:23 (thirteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Cameron Crowe is so pissed that he didn't come up with this.

― Raymond Dubious Davies (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 26 April 2012 18:09 (thirteen years ago)

the kinda shit they usually do in Hollywood instead of showing rep cinema

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 April 2012 18:38 (thirteen years ago)

Jason Reitman's reading

don't understand this phrase

― goole, Thursday, 26 April 2012 18:43 (thirteen years ago)

five years pass...

http://images4.static-bluray.com/reviews/5518_1_large.jpg

― flappy bird, Tuesday, 3 April 2018 06:19 (seven years ago)

two years pass...

crossposting this Andre Aciman remembrance of rep cinema past

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/7044-elsewhere-on-screen

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 16 August 2020 15:50 (five years ago)

three years pass...

Adjusted for inflation, the $100 Sheldrake gives Fran is equivalent to $1,044.39 in today's dollars.

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 06:09 (one year ago)

Promises, promises.

― The Glittering Worldbuilders (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 06:50 (one year ago)

so all those old dudes were fucking their mistresses in CC Baxter's bed, right?

― na (NA), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 14:00 (one year ago)

Imagine the bedbugs.

― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 14:10 (one year ago)

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