Summary: THE LOST WEEKEND: “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.” Failed writer Ray Milland hits the sauce and the bottom in Oscar winner for Best Picture, Screenplay, Director and Actor. Among the famous sequences: the bat and mouse hallucination and the desperate trek for money past actual Third Ave. pawnshops closed for Yom Kippur. Screenplay by Wilder and Charles Brackett, from the novel by Charles Jackson. “New York brutally stripped of all glamour.” – Tom Milne. Introduced by Blake Bailey, author of Farther & Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson, published this week by Random House. This podcast is a recording of the introduction to THE LOST WEEKEND by Blake Bailey, recorded March 18, 2013, at Film Forum during a screening of the film.
