Close Reads at the Movies: "The Apartment"

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Billy Wilder’s The Apartment is one of the great holiday movies, one of the great romantic comedies, and one of the great screenplays, so here at the end of the year we offer up our favorite film to watch between Christmas and New Years. We’re making this one available to all, so we hope you enjoy—listening-wise. Happy new year!

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm David Kern.
0:03.5	I'm Heidi White.
0:04.7	I'm Sean Johnson.
0:06.3	And this is Close Reads, a podcast for The Incurable Reader on which we are turning into
0:10.4	close reads at the movies we're going to be talking about Billy Wilder's movie, The
0:14.2	Apartment.
0:15.2	Sean, how many times have you seen this movie?
0:18.7	A lot of times.
0:20.2	More or less than Casablanca? times have you seen this movie? A lot of times.
0:23.5	More or less than Casablanca?
0:26.6	I think I have seen this movie more than Casablanca.
0:27.4	Okay.
0:31.9	But this is one of those where I will, sometimes I won't watch the whole movie.
0:32.6	Sure.
0:33.0	Yeah. I will just watch parts of it for pleasure.
0:35.9	And if I don't make it through the whole movie, it's not a big deal.
0:38.0	And I'll come back to it later.
0:39.4	Right.
0:39.7	Yeah.
0:39.8	It's also a good YouTube.
0:41.5	Just watch some clips on YouTube.
0:43.1	Yeah, that's right.
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