{"id":18748,"date":"2026-07-15T21:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T01:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18748"},"modified":"2026-07-13T22:03:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:03:59","slug":"the-lost-weekend-1945-billy-wilder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18748","title":{"rendered":"The Lost Weekend (1945, Billy Wilder)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Milland, even younger than in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/18570\">The Big Clock<\/a><\/em> and hardly looking like his <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/528\">X-Ray<\/a><\/em> self &#8211; supposedly quit drinking a week ago and is acting outraged that anyone would suspect him of falling off, while he&#8217;s busily hiding bottles around the apartment.  Looking crazed and desperate from the start, he steals the maid&#8217;s money and hits the town, staying at the bar late enough that his brother and wife leave on their planned trip without him.  Ray is so happy with his booze &#8211; why would anyone deprive him of this?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/lostweek1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/lostweek2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>A half hour in, he starts flashbacking, and even in his happy (but still drunken) past he&#8217;s being rude to his girl when they first meet at the opera.  Meanwhile, present-day Ray is running low on booze and needs more people to rob or precious objects to pawn.  The movie&#8217;s not completely miserable, Wilder adds levity, but all addiction stories end up the same way.  Of course &#8220;The Drinking&#8221; by Robbie Fulks came to mind &#8211; can&#8217;t think of any other country songs about getting drunk but there&#8217;s probably one or two.  The Mikl\u00f3s R\u00f3zsa soundtracks on <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/18747\">both<\/a> of these Wilder movies are good, and they look great at least.  Winner of all the oscars except score, which is only forgivable because R\u00f3zsa lost to himself for <em>Spellbound<\/em>.  At the first Cannes festival this joined the 11-way tie for best picture, one of which was somehow <strong>not<\/strong> Cocteau&#8217;s <em>Beauty and the Beast<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/lostweek3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/lostweek4.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Milland, even younger than in The Big Clock and hardly looking like his X-Ray self &#8211; supposedly quit drinking a week ago and is acting outraged that anyone would suspect him of falling off, while he&#8217;s busily hiding bottles around the apartment. Looking crazed and desperate from the start, he steals the maid&#8217;s money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[416,3505,115,303],"class_list":["post-18748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1940s","tag-addiction","tag-billy-wilder","tag-ray-milland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18793,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18748\/revisions\/18793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}