BILLY WILDER: Sabrina (1954) / Sabrina (1995)
“Once upon a time, on the North shore of Long Island…”
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of manipulation, gaslighting, suicide, unrequited love.
Our Billy Wilder series (and William Holden mini-series) continues this week with the airiest romantic comedy performed on screen - twice. Because while Billy is a true master of the craft, he also makes films that are worth remaking and updating, and this week we’ve landed on the one film that’s gotten a fresh take. Both films are beautiful, thoughtful, and really well-made, but the newer version is slightly better in some subtle ways that doesn’t ruin anything from the original. Not to mention both films feature incredible performances from great actors, and our directing replacement for Billy on the newer version is no slouch either. Grab a couple of champagne glasses in your back pocket as we do a double feature of Sabrina from 1954 and 1995 on Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?!
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Intro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive..
Excerpts taken from the film Sabrina (1954) are© TM & Copyright 2007 by Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved.
Excerpt taken from the “Theme from Sabrina,” composed by John Williams. Copyright 1995 A&M Records, Inc.
Excerpts taken from the film Sabrina (1995) are © 1995 by Worldwide Productions and Mont Blanc Entertainment GmbH.
Excerpt taken from the film The Seven Year Itch is © 1955 Charles K. Feldman Group Productions. Renewed 1983 Charles K. Feldman Group Productions.
