Nate and Ryan start their journey through their 5-Star movies by discussing The Apartment, the 1960 classic starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine. Winning a swath of Oscars signaled the love people had for The Apartment early on, but over the years, its legend has only grown. Directed by Billy Wilder, it’s widely hailed as one of the best movies of all time. So why is that? Nate and Ryan discuss what there is to love about this surprisingly dark, lovely comedy.
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Links
Billy and me: why I love The Apartment by Cameron Crowe (The Guardian).
Roger Ebert’s Great Movie review of The Apartment.
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Nate and Ryan talk about 2023’s American Fiction, written and directed by Cord Jefferson and starring Jeffrey Wright. Both Nate and Ryan are big fans of author Percival Everett and his novel Erasure, which American Fiction is adapted from. For that reason, expectations were high for this Academy-Award winning movie. Critics all loved it, and the limited audiences who saw it seemed to as well. So what did Nate and Ryan think?
