Flashback: The Apartment (1960)

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🗓️ 21 March 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In the new episode of Flashback, movie critics Dana Stevens and K. Austin Collins discuss the comedy The Apartment (1960), directed by Billy Wilder. Other titles mentioned in the episode: Sunset Boulevard (1950) Butterfield 8 (1960) Conversations with Wilder Some Like It Hot (1959) Ace in the Hole (1951) Stalag 17 (1953) The Lost Weekend (1945) Double Indemnity (1944) Ball of Fire (1941) Ninotchka (1939) Nobody’s Perfect Brief Encounter (1946) Fast Times on Ridgemont High (1982) Dragnet Bonanza Columbo The Crowd (1928) Gaslight (1944) Children of Paradise (1946) Ikiru (1956) When Harry Met Sally (1989) Frances Ha (2013) Manhattan (1979) Billy Wilder Tapes Eve’s Bayou (1997) Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood Wanda (1970) Alexandria…Why? (1979) The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Within Our Gates (1920) One From the Heart (1982) Email us at [email protected] Production by Chau Tu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Flashback, Slate's podcast about older and classic movies.
0:17.5	I'm Slate's movie critic, Dana Stevens, and I'm here as always, distantly talking in
0:22.5	the ether with Chaos and Collins of Rolling Stone.
0:25.0	Hey, Kim.
0:26.0	How's it going?
0:27.0	Pretty good.
0:28.0	It's our 50th show that we've ever done, so happy 50th.
0:31.7	Happy anniversary.
0:32.9	And so you picked this episode's choice, the apartment, the Billy Wilder movie from
0:36.8	1960, as a kind of celebratory piece.
0:40.3	Why did it feel that way to you?
0:42.1	I think I chose it because it was a movie I hadn't seen in a while.
0:46.2	And you know, I mean, people didn't hear this, but I had a whole bunch of crazy ideas for
0:49.9	what to choose, but this one just felt like the right one.
0:52.4	I will say, though, I saw a meme immediately after choosing it and noticed that in sunset
1:00.5	Boulevard, Norma Desmond is 50.
1:03.6	And that would have been same director, another great best picture winner.
1:08.9	That would also have been appropriate.
1:10.4	But I think I, you know, was jonesing for some Shirley McLean.
1:13.5	Gosh, one of my favorite, favorite, favorite actors.
1:17.3	This is one of my favorite of her performances.
1:20.6	And I was in the mood for some widescreen, black and white and some awkwardness and some
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