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directed by Billy Wilder...
...Some Like It Hot," a gangster-era comedy directed by Billy Wilder and scripted by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond, features Lemmon's best performance ever. Lemmon and co-star Tony Curtis play a pair of Chicago musicians who witness the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre. The Mob wants the two permanently silenced and the musicians decide to leave Chicago any way they...
Though Holden and von Stroheim are powerful foils to Swanson's persona, Wilder and his camera wisely sweep them to the edges of the screen to focus on Norma. Swanson's performance is something beyond acting; her Norma lives every moment on two planes, in the mundane world and on celluloid. She has a habit of pausing almost unnoticeably as she speaks, giving the effect of a flickering silent film, posing briefly for the camera, then continuing...
...Wilder's camera is generous to Swanson, playing with the copious material she gives him to create confusion between light and shadow, cinema and life. The camera chills, not only with beautiful photography, but with inspired editing which creates a dialogue of images, blending forms from one scene subtly into another...
...almost like an out-of-body experience," says former Virginia Governor DOUGLAS WILDER of an attack on him by a guard at an airport in North Carolina last week. The guard grabbed Wilder by the neck and pushed him against the wall after the ex-Governor tried to read his name tag. Wilder wanted his name because of the rough treatment he got when his suspenders set off the metal detector. Other guards pulled their colleague away. Wilder then left for Virginia; the guard left...