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The Lost Weekend
The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.
January 2, 1889 in Lima, Ohio, USA
27 March 1885, Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
10 February 1910, Princeton, Illinois, USA
8 December 1905, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
4 May 1909, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
June 21, 1893 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
December 13, 1895 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
11 October 1926, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, USA
September 10, 1889 in Farmington, Illinois, USA
May 1, 1888 in Deer Lodge, Tennessee, USA
26 January 1891, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
September 14, 2012
While you watch it, it entirely holds you.
May 20, 2003
A shatteringly realistic and morbidly fascinating film.
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.
February 19, 2013
One of cinema's earliest and best portraits of drug addiction.
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 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.
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.
February 20, 2008
It is intense, morbid -- and thrilling. Here is an intelligent dissection of one of society's most rampant evils.
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.
March 13, 2016
Dry alkies and wet teetotalers perpetually out of balance, startlingly laid out by Wilder as a lonely metropolis' quivering nervous system