The Apartment

Certificate: PG
Running Time: 119 Mins
Retail Price: £24.99
Release Date: 18/12/2017
Content Type: Movie

Synopsis:
In 1960, following on from the success of their collaboration on Some Like it Hot, director Billy Wilder (Ace in the Hole, Sunset Boulevard) reteamed with actor Jack Lemmon (The Odd Couple, Glengarry Glen Ross) for what many consider the pinnacle of their respective careers: The Apartment.

C.C. Bud Baxter (Lemmon) is a lowly Manhattan office drone with a lucrative sideline in renting out his apartment to adulterous company bosses and their mistresses. When Bud enters into a similar arrangement the firm's personnel director, J.D. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray, Double Indemnity), his career prospects begin to look up... and up. But when he discovers that Sheldrake's mistress is Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine, Irma la Douce), the girl of his dreams, he finds himself forced to choose between his career and the woman he loves...

Winner of five Academy Awards®, including Best Picture, The Apartment features a wealth of Hollywood's finest talent on both sides of the camera at the top of their game. By turns cynical, heart-warming and hilarious, Wilder's masterpiece now shines like never before in this all-new, 4K-restored edition from Arrow Films.

Special Features:
Limited Deluxe Edition Blu-ray [3000 copies]

Brand new 4K restoration of the film from the original camera negative

Original uncompressed PCM mono audio

Optional 5.1 remix in lossless DTS-HD Master Audio

Optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

Audio commentary with film producer and historian Bruce Block

New appreciation of the film and select scene commentary by film historian Philip Kemp

The Flawed Couple, a new video essay by filmmaker David Cairns on the collaborations between Billy Wilder and Jack Lemmon

Billy Wilder ABC, an overview by David Cairns on the life and career of the filmmaker, covering his films, collaborators and more

New interview with actress Hope Holiday

Inside the Apartment, a half-hour making-of featurette from 2007 including interviews with Shirley MacLaine, executive producer Walter Mirisch, and others

Magic Time: The Art of Jack Lemmon, an archive profile of the actor from 2007

Original screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond (BD-ROM content)

Theatrical trailer

Special collector s packaging featuring newly commissioned artwork by Matt Griffin

Collector's 150-page hardcover book featuring new writing by Neil Sinyard, Kat Ellinger, Travis Crawford and Heather Hyche, generously illustrated with rare stills and behind-the-scenes imagery

Related Websites:
www.arrowfilms.co.uk