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	The Lost Weekend (1945)
		Billy Wilder's film The Lost Weekend is most intriguing when you examine what he's trying to say about alcoholics, about human nature, and the plight of man when he battles the bottle.
		In the novel of The Lost Weekend, Don's drinking problem stems from an expulsion from college due to his affair with a male student.
		The Lost Weekend opens with a zoom in of an apartment building in New York City.
	www.davegunn.com /lw.html (1197 words)

	The Lost Weekend - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Lost Weekend is a 1945 motion picture directed by Billy Wilder for Paramount Pictures, starring Ray Milland, Jane Wyman and Phillip Terry.
		The Lost Weekend, 1945, On the way home, he stops in for a few drinks at his favorite watering stop - Nat's Bar on Third Avenue [the legendary P.
		Tribute was paid to the film in the Simpsons episode A Star is Burns: Barney Gumble's short film 'Puke-a-Hontas' recreates several of the iconic images such as the main character lying on his bed surrounded by the detritus of his habit.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Lost_Weekend (269 words)

	Info and facts on 'The Lost Weekend'
		It tells the story of an alcoholic (A person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually), Milland, on a weekend bender.
		The movie also shared the 1946 (additional info and facts about 1946) Palme d'Or (additional info and facts about Palme d'Or) (Golden Palm) at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival (additional info and facts about Cannes Film Festival).
		The movie received Academy Awards (An annual award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for achievements in motion picture production and performance) for:
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_lost_weekend.htm (225 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: The Lost Weekend
		Released in 1945 by Paramount Studios, The Lost Weekend, written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, is considered Hollywood's first film about the ravages of substance abuse.
		James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: The Lost Weekend
		A grim, harrowing, and emotional drama, the film focuses on a struggling writer and his alcoholism.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419100737 (187 words)

	Amazon.com: The Lost Weekend: Books
		Based on the novel by Charles Jackson, a work that many in Hollywood had thought unfilmmable because of its relentless grimness, The Lost Weekend was one of the first films to explore the devastating effects of alcoholism.
		This facsimile edition of The Lost Weekend not only reveals the genius of the film but also illuminates how the script stands alone as a rare, wonderful piece of writing.
		It also received numerous awards at the Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Globes.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520218566?v=glance (709 words)

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		The darker variations recall his 1940s "psychological" and films noir scores, especially Lost Weekend (alcohol being an obvious narrative similarity, too).
		His "second period" of "psychological" films began with Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945) for which he won an Oscar, quickly followed by Billy Wilder's memorable depiction of a desperate alcoholic (Ray Milland) in Lost Weekend (1945).
		A haunting work from a master composer nearing the end of his film career.
	www.btinternet.com /~rubberneck/rozsa.html (1903 words)

	The Lost Weekend (1945)
		The film was given a subtitle for its British release: The Lost Weekend: Diary of a Dipsomaniac.
		The Lost Weekend (1945) is a serious, painful and uncompromising, frank look at alcohol addiction that follows almost five days ('one lost weekend') in the life of a chronic, tortured alcoholic, and failed writer.
		After the credits, The Lost Weekend opens with a panning, left-to-right cityscape view of New York City.
	www.filmsite.org /lostw.html (2567 words)

	The Lost Weekend (1945)
		With a film like The Lost Weekend creating the right atmosphere is of paramount importance, which is where Miklos Rozsa's score comes in.
		The Lost Weekend is a timeless study of the chains of addiction, excellent in all departments and horrifying at every turn.
		Preparing for a weekend in the country, at their parents home, the mood is jolly but perhaps also slightly strained.
	www.film.u-net.com /Movies/Reviews/Lost_Weekend.html (1016 words)

	Moviefone: The Lost Weekend Movie: MAIN
		The Lost Weekend, Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry,...
		For more information about "The Lost Weekend," visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)...
		The sexy stars of 'Match Point' flirtatiously dish about the film.
	movies.aol.com /movie/main.adp?mid=12692&uid=8350 (169 words)

	The Lost Weekend
		Just because The Lost Weekend is one of Wilder's serious films, that doesn't prevent him from working a number of memorable lines into the screenplay.
		Although hardly the best film in the late great Billy Wilder's cannon, one could make the argument that The Lost Weekend was his most important.
		He will not only need the same effort, willpower, and determination that had kept him straight for "10 days" until this lost weekend, he will need far more to prevent once again undoing anything he might have accomplished.
	www.metalasylum.com /ragingbull/movies/lostweekend.html (3283 words)

	Ray Milland - An Award Winning Actor @ Classic Movie Favorites - The Lost Weekend
		During a weekend while his brother Wick goes away on vacation, Don uses this opportunity to go on the biggest drinking binge of his life.
		His desperation at waking up in the morning and wanting a drink is so haunting and believable that you feel his anguish.
		Ray Milland portrays alcoholic Don Birnam, a dissatisfied, failed writer who lives off his supportive brother, Wick, portrayed by Philip Terry.
	classicmoviefavorites.com /milland/lostweekend.html (145 words)

	The Lost Weekend
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		"More realistic than sentimentalized Hollywood crowd-pleasers like Harvey, and more accessible than complete downers like Leaving Las Vegas, The Lost Weekend is, to me, the definitive film on the subject of alcoholism."
		"The Lost Weekend (1945) is a serious, painful and uncompromising, frank look at alcohol addiction that follows almost five days ('one lost weekend') in the life"
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/lost_weekend (499 words)

	DVD.net : The Lost Weekend - DVD Review
		Yes, the ending of The Lost Weekend is a bit hokey, catering to Hollywood expectations.
		But that's just two minutes out of a film which is quite relentless in its description of the miseries and horror of alcoholism.
		If there had been any justice in Hollywood, Milland would have won an Oscar for that movie, too.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=5017 (682 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Lost Weekend: DVD
		Although dated in some respects, the film's unadorned portrait of the relentless torture that is alcoholism still packs a powerful punch thanks to Wilder's sharp script, the deep-focus camerawork of John Seitz, and a career performance by Ray Milland.
		As the weekend wears on, his spiral downward continues apace.
		Don returns to the apartment to try to work on his novel 'The Bottle' but consumed by self-doubt, goes to another bar, and steals a woman's purse to buy a drink.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00079FGVC (420 words)

	NPR : A Lost Episode of 'The Avengers'
		NPR : A Lost Episode of 'The Avengers'
		Weekend Edition - Saturday, October 8, 2005 · A portion of the very first episode of the 1960s TV spy series The Avengers has been rediscovered.
		Twenty minutes of restored film will be screened at the British Film Institute's National Film Theater in early December.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4951342&ft=1&f=7 (116 words)

	Boundless: The Mummy Has Two Faces
		And for the overall list of box office debuts (holiday and non-holiday), it fell only slightly behind the $72-million breakout of The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Memorial Day weekend, May 1997).
		The Mummy Returns begins in 1935, a good ten years after the heroics depicted in the also-very-successful 1999 film The Mummy.
		When The Mummy Returns debuted during the May 4 weekend, Americans unloaded a record-breaking $70.1 million to see this thriller on the Nile outpace Sylvester Stallone's Driven, which crossed the finish line in second place at a distant $6.05 million.
	www.boundless.org /2000/departments/atplay/a0000436.html (836 words)

	THE OSTERMAN WEEKEND - SAM PECKINPAH COMMEMORATIVE 2-DISC EDITION DVD
		A little like the lost scenes from The Wicker Man, Anchor Bay has decided that the historical significance of the footage is more important than the aesthetic crudity of the source elements, a position with which any self-respecting film buff would concur.
		The Osterman Weekend is a mirror for the individual ruined by his culture, taken for a patsy, robbed, lied to, and, in true Peckinpah vernacular, fucked unkindly by the monoliths we trust.
		As we watch The Osterman Weekend, we're put in the position of Fassett behind his bank of monitors, fantasizing about his last tryst with his wife as he watches Tanner and his missus, Ali (Meg Foster), have sex.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/ostermanweekend.htm (1709 words)

	'Lost in Translation' doesn't translate well in Japan csmonitor.com
		Indeed, while "Lost in Translation" opened all over the world last fall, it opened in image-conscious Tokyo only last weekend.
		Now, in a small but significant way, Sofia Coppola's film, Lost in Translation, is also coming under the gun.
		The Australian chef at the Hyatt opined that "Lost in Translation" captures what Tokyo is like to first time visitors.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/0419/p07s01-woap.html (799 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Screens: 'Lost Ark,' Resurrected
		The world premiere of Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation (1982-1988) screens this weekend at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown (409 Colorado).
		The film is a crowd-pleaser, turning all the Raiders action -- clichéd after 20 years of imitation -- into a new and genuinely startling viewing experience.
		But the film is an amazing testament to their endurance.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2003-05-30/screens_feature4.html (1143 words)

	Weekend - Walter Ruttmann
		For Weekend they were recorded as arbitrary and intentional elements on the soundtrack of an optical sound film using the so-called Tri-Ergon process.
		The original of Weekend was long considered lost.
		Weekend is a pioneering work from the early days of radio, commissioned in 1928 by Berlin Radio Hour.
	sfsound.org /tape/ruttmann.html (441 words)

	DVD.net : Hannibal - CE - DVD Review
		Upon its opening weekend Hannibal had grossed approximately $58 million, giving it the distinction of being the third-biggest picture debut is U.S. cinema history, exceeded only by 1997’s The Lost World: Jurassic Park ($72 million) and 1999’s Star Wars: The Phantom Menace ($64.8 million).
		Hannibal is not an action film, yet it does contain a dynamic shootout near the film’s beginning; despite the high level of activity and rapid cutting, there is no grain.
		The film can be regarded as an insight of the corruptibility of the modern world when individuals forsake morality in exchange for personal gain, whether it be financial, beneficial, or sexual.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=772 (3718 words)

	Dallas Observer dallasobserver.com Film
		The film's true focus is the friendship between the two girls (Emma Roberts and Lindsay Lohan look-alike Joanna "JoJo" Levesque), although this tends to get lost between Elizabeth Allen's jittery direction and the screenplay's contrivances.
		George Butler's film spends more time detailing the construction and testing of these gold-plated dune buggies than with their painstaking exploration, and it treats us to more animated recreations of what the Rovers are up to and less of the actual photos they've taken.
		The film is shot in stunning black and white, partially as a result of the inspired decision to use actual archival footage of the key historical figures, including McCarthy himself.
	listings.dallasobserver.com /gyrobase/Film/ShowFilm (6971 words)

	Comedy Times
		LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn caught the box-office bouquet as their comedy "Wedding Crashers" pulled a switch with a $20.5 million weekend, becoming...
		THE second episode of Ricky Gervais's new comedy Extras lost more than a million viewers on Thursday night.
		RICKY Gervais's appearance in his own episode of The Simpsons is a dream come true, the British comedy star has revealed.
	archive.wn.com /2005/08/04/1400/comedytimes (460 words)

	wonderwallpr
		Tickets to films at The Screening Room are $9 for regular admission and $6 for seniors and children under 12.
		Coming to the screen October 7 from "American Cinematheque Presents..." as a continuation of The Screening Room¹s "Weekend Classics" series, WONDERWALL tells the tale of an eccentric scientist who stumbles upon a secret window into the sex life of gorgeous nymph Jane Birkin.
		Overflowing with psychedelic flashbacks, dream sequences and plenty of free love, the classic film features a shimmering, sitar-laced instrumental soundtrack by former Beatle George Harrison.
	www.americancinematheque.com /pressreleases/2000/wonderwallpr.htm (460 words)

	Science Fiction News of the Week
		Previous record-holder The Lost World: Jurassic Park took in $90.2 million in its four-day opening weekend in 1997.
		The film tells the story of a mysterious structure that suddenly appears during a massive electrical storm, which blankets the Earth with a huge shock wave.
		Patrick Horne, director and producer of a new independent film based on Kurt Vonnegut's SF short story "Harrison Bergeron," is trying to get fans to mount an e-mail campaign to urge the film's release.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue240/news.html (4650 words)

	Digital Spy: Modern films are rubbish, says Hoffman
		You can tell how much money the film is going to make by how it does on the first weekend.
		Dustin Hoffman has spoken out about the nature of the modern film culture, saying that it is "in the craphouse."
		Hoffman went on to explain why he took a brief break from his acting career in favour of writing and producing (The Furies): "I just lost that spark I always had," he said.
	www.digitalspy.co.uk /article/ds18765.html (251 words)

	Science Fiction News of the Week
		Previous record-holder The Lost World: Jurassic Park took in $90.2 million in its four-day opening weekend in 1997.
		The film tells the story of a mysterious structure that suddenly appears during a massive electrical storm, which blankets the Earth with a huge shock wave.
		Patrick Horne, director and producer of a new independent film based on Kurt Vonnegut's SF short story "Harrison Bergeron," is trying to get fans to mount an e-mail campaign to urge the film's release.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue240/news.html (4650 words)

	Undead
		Quest for Fire is a 1981 film about three prehistoric tribesmen searching for a source of fire to replace the flame their tribe has lost.
		Weekend at Bernie’s is a 1989 film about two young men who pretend their dead boss, done in by a mafia hit man, is still alive.
		Dangerous Liaisons is a 1988 film, based on the Christopher Hampton play by the same name, about the lives and loves of the corrupt French aristocracy in the final years before the French Revolution of 1789.
	www.annotatedmst.com /episodes/undead/index.htm (6722 words)

	WV International Film Festival Links
		WV filmmaker Ray Schmitt's newest feature film about students visiting Lost River, WV, for a weekend and investigate mysteries of "the lights" and of the dark pond that has unusual appeal to the deer.
		The Paradise Film Institute was established at West Virginia State College in 1994 for supporting independent film and videomakers in the state through resource services, production support, foreign exchanges and continuing education.
		Offers world media reporting, market research and analysis for the film and cinema, television, cable and satellite, video, on-line and interactive markets on a global basis.
	www.wviff.org /LINKS.htm (6722 words)

	Variety.com - 'Hostel' takeover
		By Lionsgate's 'Hostel' brought out the young male auds, who pushed the low-budget pic into the weekend's No. 1 box office slot.
		Lionsgate's "Hostel" slashed into theaters with a $20.1 million first-place bow in the first frame of 2006, while "Munich" and "Casanova" failed to connect in their wide expansions.
		Adam SandlerAdam Sandler-produced "Grandma's Boy" lost its young male aud to "Hostel" and grossed just $2.9 million at 2,015 locations for a per-play average of $1,427.
	www.variety.com /av_result.asp?articleid=VR1117935654 (719 words)

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