The Lost Weekend
The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.
January 20, 1896 in Frankton, Indiana, USA
January 2, 1889 in Lima, Ohio, USA
11 October 1926, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, USA
21 September 1918, Prakfalva, Austria-Hungary [now Prakovce, Slovakia]
April 8, 1875 in Preßburg, Austria-Hungary [now Bratislava, Slovakia]
4 July 1904, Massachusetts, USA
October 11, 1904 in Los Angeles, California, USA
June 21, 1893 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
27 March 1885, Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
July 20, 1885 in Wakefield, Massachusetts, USA
September 14, 2012
While you watch it, it entirely holds you.
February 09, 2006
What makes the film so gripping is the brilliance with which Wilder uses John F Seitz's camerawork to range from an unvarnished portrait of New York brutally stripped of all glamour.
February 23, 2012
Under Wilder's imaginative direction, Milland has been able to convey just what an uncontrollable craving for liquor does to a man's mind, his body and soul.
January 13, 2014
Despite the grim subject matter, there are glimpses of Wilder's characteristic mordant wit, and the director's location work in New York's Third Avenue district is exemplary. Casting the hitherto bland Milland was a stroke of genius.
February 20, 2008
It is intense, morbid -- and thrilling. Here is an intelligent dissection of one of society's most rampant evils.
February 19, 2013
One of cinema's earliest and best portraits of drug addiction.
May 20, 2003
A shatteringly realistic and morbidly fascinating film.
February 19, 2013
Although ultimately less bleak than Charles Jackson's autobiographical novel, the film is uncompromising in its depiction of the lies, self-deception and degradation that alcoholism leads to.
December 12, 2006
Today it's less impressive but not without its virtues.
February 19, 2013
Taken as a treatise on addiction generally, it's remarkably sensitive and thoughtful.
March 13, 2016
Dry alkies and wet teetotalers perpetually out of balance, startlingly laid out by Wilder as a lonely metropolis' quivering nervous system
February 17, 2009
Director Billy Wilder's technique of photographing Third Avenue in the grey morning sunlight with a concealed camera to keep the crowds from being self-conscious gives this sequence the shock of reality.
