The Lost Weekend by Billy Wilder

The Lost Weekend is a 1945 American film noir drama film directed by Billy Wilder starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman. It was based on Charles R. Jackson's 1944 novel of the same name about an alcoholic writer.

Billy Wilder was inspired to make “Lost Weekend” during “Double Indemnity”, seeing the effect Raymond Chandler’s drinking had on the production. The movie is more or less faithful to the novel, except for the removal of a homosexual experience Don had in college; his repressed homosexuality being another reason for his drinking (shades of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”).

Billy Wilder directed some excellent films, but ‘The Lost Weekend’ is one of his best. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won four: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It also shared the Grand Prix at the first Cannes Film Festival, making it one of only three films (the other two being Marty (1955) and Parasite (2019) to win both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the highest award at Cannes.

Sehnsucht nach dem Anderswo ~ Mascha Kaléko

Drinnen duften die Äpfel im Spind, Prasselt der Kessel im Feuer. Draussen pfeift Vagadundenwind Und singt das Abenteur. Der Sehnsucht nach dem Anderswo Kannst Du wohl nie entrinnen: Nach drinnen, wenn Du draussen bist, Nach draussen, bist Du drinnen.

Pieter Claesz ~ Vanitas-Stillleben mit Geige und Glaskugel um 1628

Germanisches Nationalmuseum "Ein schönes Bild. Ich kenne es im Original. Leider wird es momentan nicht ausgestellt. In der Glaskugel links spiegelt sich bei genauem Hinsehen der Künstler - ein geschickt eingebrachtes Selbstportrait vor der geöffneten Uhr. Ein Vanitas-Stillleben halt." André Debus

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