Some Like it Hot
Dir: Billy Wilder
USA, 1959, 121 minsmins, DCP
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Marilyn Monroe
Hailed as the funniest American picture of the 20th century, Wilder’s clever and farcical comedy of inspiration and meticulous craft is one of the enduring treasures of movie history. Curtis and Lemmon play Chicago musicians who masquerade as women to escape from mafia gangsters after witnessing the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Curtis disguises himself as a tycoon to win Monroe who dreams of marrying a millionaire; Lemmon, in turn, is proposed by a real wealthy blockhead. Wilder’s sense of humor is as broad as it can be sophisticated, and Monroe, with that combination of sex appeal and naive quality, who can ever resist?
#1 in American Film Institute’s “100 Years…100 Laughs” (2000)
Further Readings:
Some Like it Hot, From 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider (N.Y: Barron’s, 2003)
Some Like it Hot, From “Defining Moments in Movies – The Greatest Films, Stars, Scenes, and Events that Made Movie Magic” (NY, 2007)
Screening:
In-theatre Screening
Buy Ticket 2017-08-15 (Tue)
19:30Tickets available at screening venue on screening date 2017-08-26 (Sat)
17:00
Hong Kong Arts Centre Louis Koo Cinema (Venue)
The Metroplex (Venue)
Chinese Subtitles
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