Classic
Hitchcock's Vertigo has knocked
Citizen Kane off the top "Best Films Of All Time" spot. Both great films but the
Gutterbox greatest movie of all time is
Days of Wine and Roses (1962). Directed by
Blake Edwards (from a screenplay by
JP Miller) and starring a brilliant
Jack Lemmon alongside an utterly convincing (and beautiful)
Lee Remick, it tells the story of an alcoholic couple who once hooked on the demon drink, find their lives falling from the blissful heights of happy families into the dirty and chaotic trenches of addiction.
I first saw
Days Of Wine and Roses when I was surfing the movie channel late at night a few years ago and I almost (through tiredness) turned it off. Suffice to say im very glad I didn't press the red button. The film is brilliant! And the fact its black and white is wonderful too because it seems to highlight the fact that the subject matter (alcoholism) only ever has light and darkness, in that there is seldom any real choices with the disease.
If you haven't yet seen this movie, I strongly suggest you do so, I cannot recommend it highly enough. The script, the sublime acting, the stark snapshots of desperation,
Days Of Wine and Roses is just
BRILLIANT.
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