Billy Wilder

Submitted by kaplan on Tue, 07/11/2006 - 06:51
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  1. Must-see

  2. Some Like It Hot (1959)
  3. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
  4. The Lost Weekend (1945)
  5. The Apartment (1960)
  6. Double Indemnity (1944)
  7. The Front Page (1974)
  8. The Major and the Minor (1942)

  9. Highly recommended

  10. A Foreign Affair (1948)
  11. Avanti! (1972)
  12. The Fortune Cookie (1966)

  13. Recommended

  14. Worth a look

  15. Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
  16. Mauvaise graine (1933) (co-directed with Alexander Esway)
  17. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
  18. Kiss Me, Stupid! (1964)
  19. Ace in the Hole (1951)
  20. Love in the Afternoon (1957)

  21. Not bad but why don't you read a good book instead

  22. One, Two, Three (1961)
  23. The Emperor Waltz (1948)

  24. Patience is running out

  25. Irma la douce (1963)

  26. Never mind

  27. The Seven Year Itch (1955)
  28. Buddy Buddy (1981)

  29. Avoid

  30. Fedora (1978)
Author Comments: 

Films by Billy Wilder ranked in order of preference.

To be seen: 4
- Stalag 17 (1953)
- Sabrina (1954)
- The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
- The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)

alsox4life01/31/2007

I rather liked The Seven Year Itch myself. I didn't expect to, but something about it really kept my interest.

kaplan02/08/2007

I really didn't. Wilder doesn't seem to know how to handle the space, the screenplay is tedious and the actors, espcially Ewell, are bad.