A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.
24 March 1910, Portland, Maine, USA
July 14, 1890 in Port Orange, Florida, USA
4 October 1895, Piqua, Kansas, USA
2 April 1920, Santa Monica, California, USA
April 16, 1898 in Butler, Pennsylvania, USA
November 6, 1890 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
22 September 1885, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
April 28, 1911 in Spokane, Washington, USA
14 July 1928, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
4 February 1915, Salamanca, New York, USA
24 May 1889, County Cork, Ireland
November 23, 1894 in Greenville, Pennsylvania, USA
October 11, 1904 in Los Angeles, California, USA
24 September 1892, Richmond, Virginia, USA
April 11, 1881 in New York City, New York, USA
17 January 1898, Sandusky, Ohio, USA
November 28, 1906 in Pendleton, Oregon, USA
8 September 1905, Dominica, British West Indies
4 July 1911, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
23 December 1904, New York City, New York, USA
17 April 1918, O'Fallon, Illinois, USA
May 5, 1912 in Brooklyn, New York, USA
January 29, 1909 in Sumner, Washington, USA
18 March 1885, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
25 July 1896, Three Rivers, Michigan, USA
18 September 1920, Newark, New Jersey, USA
July 30, 1914 in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
26 October 1875, London, England, UK
19 March 1914, Lincoln, California, USA
7 March 1909, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
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.
June 24, 2006
One of Wilder's finest, and certainly the blackest of all Hollywood's scab-scratching accounts of itself.
September 29, 2005
Still the best Hollywood movie ever made about Hollywood.
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.
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.
August 29, 2012
An uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.
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.
January 22, 2015
Rarely is fiction shot through so glitteringly with real life.
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.
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.
April 03, 2003
This is the greatest film about Hollywood ever put on celluloid by Hollywood.
