Close Eye #8 • Billy Wilder

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Back *.* and going much further back in time from the previous ones, with one of the definitive cinema greats. Billy Wilder dealt with a wide range of film styles and genres, but for me he really shone with the comedy. Granted, i haven't seen as many of these as i perhaps should have, but those ones at the end of the 50's in particular are sensational. 'Some Like it Hot' and particularly 'The Apartment' are some of my all-time faves. The latter was met with a huge response at the time and it's clear to see why. Very much an "everyman" sort of film, hugely relatable, funny, witty and real.

Filmography

• 1934 Mauvaise Graine
• 1942 The Major and the Minor
• 1943 Five Graves to Cairo
• 1944 Double Indemnity
• 1945 The Lost Weekend
• 1945 Death Mills Director
• 1948 The Emperor Waltz
• 1948 A Foreign Affair
• 1950 Sunset Boulevard
• 1951 Ace in the Hole
• 1953 Stalag 17
• 1954 Sabrina
• 1955 The Seven Year Itch
• 1957 The Spirit of St. Louis
• 1957 Love in the Afternoon
• 1957 Witness for the Prosecution
• 1959 Some Like It Hot
• 1960 The Apartment
• 1961 One, Two, Three
• 1963 Irma la Douce
• 1964 Kiss Me, Stupid
• 1966 The Fortune Cookie
• 1970 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
• 1972 Avanti!
• 1974 The Front Page
• 1978 Fedora
• 1981 Buddy Buddy

What films have you seen of his? Any on your MUST-SEE lift ('The Apartment' must be if you haven't seen it already!!)

Close Eyes:

#8 Billy Wilder

#7 Tim Burton

#6 David Fincher

#5 Roman Polanski

#4 Stanley Kubrick

#3 Lars Von Trier

#2 Alfred Hitchcock

#1 Quentin Tarantino