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Sunset Boulevard
A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.
24 April 1914, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
2 May 1885, Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
April 28, 1911 in Spokane, Washington, USA
12 August 1881, Ashfield, Massachusetts, USA
2 April 1920, Santa Monica, California, USA
30 March 1888, Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden
May 5, 1912 in Brooklyn, New York, USA
March 21, 1918 in Hollywood, California, USA
5 October 1905, USA
November 6, 1890 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
November 23, 1894 in Greenville, Pennsylvania, USA
November 28, 1906 in Pendleton, Oregon, USA
14 July 1928, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
4 February 1915, Salamanca, New York, USA
5 June 1878, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
28 March 1915, McDonald, Pennsylvania, USA
February 17, 1900 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
24 December 1896, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
May 31, 1894 in Redondo Beach, California, USA
18 March 1885, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
18 September 1920, Newark, New Jersey, USA
26 October 1875, London, England, UK
April 11, 1881 in New York City, New York, USA
17 April 1918, O'Fallon, Illinois, USA
4 July 1911, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
March 04, 2014
[VIDEO ESSAY] Billy Wilder's deft weaving of gothic elements, not the least of which is Nora's decrepit mansion, casts a spell from which Joe is unable to break free. He, like the audience, is stuck in a terrible place awaiting an equally frightful fate.
October 14, 2011
Norma is something of a living legend, but she's also an unaware ghost: no longer of the world in which she thinks she lives.
August 29, 2012
An uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.
January 13, 2017
Sunset Boulevard (1950), the blackest of Hollywood's self-portraits, is an old dark house of a ghost story inhabited by the living shadows of its discarded stars.
November 08, 2012
One of the great joys of the film is watching the way in which William Holden's naturalistic performance clashes with an actress and performance style from an earlier age.
September 29, 2005
Still the best Hollywood movie ever made about Hollywood.
January 22, 2015
Rarely is fiction shot through so glitteringly with real life.
August 14, 2007
A tour de force for Swanson and one of Wilder's better efforts.
July 29, 2003
What's not recognized enough is the indelible, self-sickened performance of William Holden as Desmond's boy-toy/hired hack.
April 03, 2003
This is the greatest film about Hollywood ever put on celluloid by Hollywood.
June 24, 2006
One of Wilder's finest, and certainly the blackest of all Hollywood's scab-scratching accounts of itself.
June 28, 2007
...They rate a nod for daring, as well as credit for an all-around filmmaking job that, disregarding the unpleasant subject matter, is a standout.
