Snapped earlier this evening (3.27) at JFK airport, roughly around 7:30 pm.
One problem: The burning red-orange on my iPhone truly pops —- it’s like watching a Super Technirama 70 capture on mescaline, projected at 30 foot lamberts. But the reconstitution through the HE server makes it look weaker, a bit muddier, certainly less vivid. And the actual, naked-eye-filling vista that prompted me to pull over in the first place was the best of all.
Billy Wilder‘s Irma La Douce (opened on 6.5.63) was hugely successful…cost $5 million to make, earned $25 million. But many Wilder fans will tell you it was a silly, sentimental slog and a general disappointment. FACT: At 147 minutes, it was certainly too long.
A year later the Wilder train was temporarily derailed by Kiss Me Stupid. Things rebounded somewhat with The Fortune Cookie (‘66) but Wilder’s peak era (1944’s Double Indemnity to 1961’s One Two Three) had come and gone, and “there wasn’t nothin’ you could do about it”.
