On Nov. 29, 1945, Paramount Pictures and Billy Wilder brought the adaptation to theaters in Los Angeles, en route to the movie eventually winning the best picture Oscar.

Ray Milland's portrait of an alcoholic on a grueling four-day bender set the standard for Hollywood depictions of the disease and its destructiveness. The film won Oscars for best picture, Milland ...

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What if John Lennon’s infamous “lost weekend” really wasn’t? “They made it sound like this whole time he was drugging out. And I really took offense to that,” says May Pang, Lennon’s ...

Read the Empire Movie review of The Lost Weekend. Painfully sincere and uncompromising look at alcoholism for a film released in 1945, with a superb ...

John Lennon and May Pang's relationship is the subject of the new film "The Lost Weekend." (Courtesy of Briarcliff Entertainment) Most people know John Lennon as one of the founding members and ...

Still, if you’re up for a montage of Lennon/Pang Polaroids accompanied by the strains of Eddie Money’s “Two Tickets To Paradise,” this movie is just the thing. The Lost Weekend: A Love ...

The so-called Lost Weekend, when John Lennon, from late 1973 through ’74, separated from Yoko Ono and relocated to Los Angeles, where he became a hard-drinking rock-club night owl while carrying ...