Days of Wine and Roses
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Features
• Anamorphic
• Black & White
• NTSC
• Subtitled
• Widescreen
In Theaters : 26 December, 1962
DVD Release : 06 January, 2004 |
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Days of Wine and Roses Customer Reviews
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Great Film, Disappointing Commentary Track
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It's an excellent film, though I did find it a bit too self-consciously preachy at times, which I found took me out of the dramatic moment from time to time. This preachiness is somewhat amplified by being presented in the person of Jack Klugman, playing a recovering alcoholic. I have a great deal of respect for Klugman as an actor, but to me, his line deliveries do have a tendency to sound a bit strident and overly-intense to begin with -- even as Oscar Madison in Neil Simon's 'The Odd Couple'! -- so the already-preachy tone of some of the dialogue, placed into his mouth make the film almost seem to stop at points while a public service announcement is played out. This nitpick however, cannot diminish the overall dramatic power of the film, or its value in helping people to understand something of the tragedy of alcoholism.
The Director's Commentary track by Blake Edwards was really quite disappointing. Edwards freely admits to not having even watched the film since it was first made, so instead of being able to provide insightful commentary as the film proceeds, he frequently admits to (and apologizes for), long stretches of his own silence as he's swept up in the drama as an audience member. There is, however, about 8 minutes in, an interesting anecdote about a conversation he had with Jack Lemmon during shooting about their own drinking habits. |
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