SOME LIKE IT HOT

DIRECTOR: Billy Wilder
WRITERS: Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond
STARS: Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Marilyn Monroe
SUPPORTING PLAYERS: George Raft, Joe E. Brown
1959, 119m
Academy Award: Costume Design: Orry-Kelly
Academy Award Nominations*: Best Screenplay, Best Actor (Jack Lemmon), Best Director, Best Cinematography (Charles Lang, Jr.) Best Production Design (Ted Haworth, Edward G. Boyle)
[*these awards were pretty much swept by William Wyler's Ben Hur]"

...transvestism, impotence, role confusion and borderline inversion -- all hilariously innocent, though always on the brink of a really disastrous double entendre." -- Pauline Kael

"One of the enduring treasures of the movies, a film of inspiration and meticulous craft, a movie that's about nothing but sex and yet pretends it's about crime and greed. It is underwired with Wilder's cheerful cynicism, so that no time is lost to soppiness and everyone behaves according to basic Darwinian drives. When sincere emotion strikes these characters, it blindsides them: Curtis thinks he wants only sex, Monroe thinks she wants only money, and they are as astonished as delighted to find they want only each other." -- Roger Ebert. Click here for more of this review

SHOWTIMES: SPECIAL EXTRA SCREENING ON MON, MAY 6 AT 9:40

APRIL 26/27 FRI/SAT: 1:00, 5:20, 9:40
CO-FEATURE: ONE TWO THREE