Get Yourself A Key And Come On In To The Wonderful Billy Wilder Film The Apartment

Calvin Clifford "C.C." Baxter (Jack Lemmon) is one super dutiful worker at the insurance company he toils away at. He's very popular with his superiors, which you can chalk up to his agreeable demeanor, his work ethic and also the fact that he allows his various bosses to bring their mistresses to his apartment for sex. Baxter gets no money for this service, he just slips his superiors the key to his place of residence in the hopes that this will put him in the good graces of the higher-ups at his company and ensure his ascension at his place of employment. It's not the easiest way to get ahead, but it's the way Baxter is trying to get himself promoted.

L'avventura Wrung Character-Centric Drama Out Of A "Gone Girl" Before It Was Cool!

Sight & Sound Voyage Entry #18
Placement On Sight & Sound Top 50 Movies List: #21

Each of our individual identities gets heavily informed by the people around us. When we're impressionable children, the behavior and characteristics displayed by our parents to be inherited by the children they raise while the de facto traits needed to be one of the "popular" people in High School is likely going to be imitated by those looking to obtain some sort of higher social status. This is one of those universal psychological quirks of us as a species that show easily susceptible we can be in order to gain acceptance from our fellow peers. For the two individuals at the center of L'avventura, the entire dynamic they share is upended when a woman they're both dearly close to goes missing under mysterious circumstances.

La Dolce Vita Is An Incredible Glimpse Into Human Depravity

Sight & Sound Voyage Entry #11
Placement On Sight & Sound Top 50 Movies List: #39

And now it is time once again for me to discover another hugely influential filmmaker whose work I've somehow been totally ignorant of until now. This time, it's Federico Fellini, the Italian writer/director behind a number of the most acclaimed motion pictures of all-time. It is his 1960 movie La Dolce Vita that serves as my introduction to this man's work, and after viewing La Dolce Vita, I can say that I am ravenous for other pieces of Federico Fellini's filmmaker. Good Lord, this guy has an incredible skill as a filmmaker, something incredibly evident from his work here in La Dolce Vita.

Psycho Is Every Bit As Engrossing As You've Heard And Then Some

Sight & Sound Voyage Entry #8
Placement On Sight & Sound 50 Best Movies List: #35 (tied with Metropolis, Jeanne Dielman 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles and Satantango)

SPOILERS FOR PSYCHO WITHIN 

You'd think, for a guy as strongly associated with high quality horror/thriller fare like Alfred Hitchcock, the experience of discovering he's directed a top-to-bottom phenomenal movie wouldn't be the least bit surprising at this point. But good golly, the guy's done it again. Watching Psycho for the first time instilled in me a deep a sense of shock how this master of cinema had done it yet again. I could feel the glee spreading from my head to my toes as I watched each new scene of Psycho unfold, with that emotion stemming from me realizing that Hitchcock hadn't just knocked it out of the park here, he'd knocked it out our solar system!

À bout de souffle (Breathless) Review (Classic Write-Up)

We all have A bout de souffle (Breathless) to thank for creating the very way films demonstrate in a visual manner time passing via the method of jump cuts. Numerous other films during the French New Wave utilized this particular technique of filmmaking, as well as works from George Melies, but the renowned popularity of A bout de souffle handily has made the feature the most lauded motion picture that brought the innovation of the jump cut to conventional visual storytelling.