Happy 90th birthday, Shirley MacLaine: her 20 best films – ranked!
Kooky kid sister, romantic lead, comic turn, cantankerous old dame … we pick out her greatest roles
June 2020
The Apartment at 60: is this Billy Wilder's finest film?
The writer-director’s humane and often surprisingly dark romantic comedy shows him at his finest with two charming leads in Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine
February 2019
The nine greatest best picture winners at the Oscars
As the awards celebrate their ninth decade, we look back on the times the Academy got it right when it came to the biggest prize
December 2015
Film blog
My favourite Christmas film: The Apartment
Billy Wilder’s 1960 classic comes complete with a festive office party, booze-fuelled flirtations and the liberation that comes with finding love
October 2015
Cinema now
Stephen Merchant: ‘Tarantino takes a few viewings – I struggled with Inglourious Basterds’
The co-writer of The Office on being transfixed by E.T. and flummoxed by Tarantino
May 2015
Goodfellas to Ghost: a movie scout's favourite New York City film locations – in pictures
Five best moments
Shirley MacLaine: five best moments
June 2012
The Apartment – review
The Apartment – review
October 2010
The 25 best romantic films of all time
The Apartment: No 6 best romantic film of all time
Billy Wilder, 1960
August 2010
The film that changed my life
The film that changed my life: Stephen Merchant
Actor and writer Stephen Merchant tells Jessica Hopkins why Billy Wilder's The Apartment is the prototype romantic comedy
March 2009
That's a fine body of work
The peculiar dynamics of an office has inspired artists since the invention of the paperclip. Our critics review some cultural classics
October 2008
Edie Adams
Obituary: Vivacious, award-winning Broadway star whose best film was The Apartment
July 2008
The Apartment
The Apartment
December 2000
The Apartment
Peter Bradshaw: Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine give the sweetest and most human performances imaginable.
December 1999
Billy and me: why I love The Apartment
The Jerry Maguire director loves Billy Wilder’s films so much he’s written a book about them. Here, exclusively for the Guardian, he explains how he got the inside track on The Apartment, his favourite of them all
