Sunday 27 May 2018

Avanti! (1972 Billy Wilder)

Film writing masterclass - this way...

I'm running out of things to say about this fried gold masterpiece. Though I did notice the lovely detail that the hotel reception rug has been turned up to clean around it better - that's a really professional touch.

"Right now he's writing a musical called 'Splash'. It's about the sinking of the Titanic."

We think the room with the green blind is our room, the real Room 122:


The people in the hotel don't even realise this film was made there.

Maybe why I love those mini vans so much is that J.J. Blodgett is delivered to the hotel on one:


Juliet Mills has the most expressive feet in film history:


"The things that go on on this floor."

"Three bullets, right between the photographs."

"I don't want to land on Africa."
"That would be bigger sir."


"What are we going to do about you?"


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