lazerbran
Since: May, 2021
#2: Jun 24th 2021 at 4:21:42 PM
The Lost Weekend is a melodrama about a Big Issue, like Gentleman’s Agreement. It overlaps with noir style, and Wilder directed some of the best in the genre. But while it’s an absolutely terrific movie, it’s hard to classify as noir except in the loosest sense.
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I noticed that on the timeline of Film Noir, The Lost Weekend is absent. Since discussion is essentially dead, and I didn't want to make the edit unilaterally, I thought I'd do it here.
IMDB calls it a film noir - one of the best - and apparently it's one of the films that led to the term being coined. On the other hand, one usually thinks of a "film noir" as a crime drama, a crime more substantial than a bit of prostitution and the theft of twenty bucks and two quarts of rye. Moreover, most noirs are B-movies, and The Lost Weekend literally won Best Picture.
(Also, I'm drunk.)
So any thoughts?
Edited by TwinBird on Jun 11th 2021 at 10:44:35 AM
My posts make considerably more sense read in the voice of John Ratzenberger.