The Apartment (Paperback, Main)

Nominated for ten Oscars—and winning five of them, including those for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay— The Apartment is a mordant comedy about getting ahead in today's corporate world. Jack Lemmon plays the 'schnook' who lends out his Upper West Side apartment for his boss's sexual trysts, only to fall in love with the boss's troubled girlfriend (Shirely MacLaine). A classic film for a variety of reasons, The Apartment boasts a beautifully written script in which the cynical tone and content of the narrative are saved by Wilder and Diamond's tenderness towards their central characters. This edition also offers a specially commissioned intoduction by Mark Cousins.