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Sunset Boulevard Billy Wilder, USA, 1950, 110m "Insanely quotable and still carrying a sting, Billy Wilder's flip bird to Hollywood is so good." - Time Out New York One of the great enduring classics of postwar American cinema, Sunset Boulevard also marks the emergence of William Holden as we came to know him. No longer the callow youth of the ‘30s or the buttoned-down man of the ‘40s, Holden had developed some interesting seams and cracks in his face, and he started to cultivate an edgy, downbeat side of which there are only inklings in his earlier performances. And that voice, speaking Billy Wilder’s caustic dialogue and narration, became one of the most recognizable of its era. This was the first of four times Holden and Wilder worked together, and together they made beautifully melancholy music. Of course, Wilder’s send-off to the Hollywood of the silent era also belongs to Gloria Swanson’s immortal Norma Desmond; to a heartbreakingly stoic Erich von Stroheim as her butler, driver, former director and husband; Nancy Olson as Holden’s writing partner and lover; and a host of other actors in small, vivid roles, including Buster Keaton, Frances X. Bushman, and, very much as himself, C.B. DeMille — not to mention that astonishing mansion on Sunset Boulevard itself. But perhaps more than anything else, it’s the duets between Holden and Swanson that make the movie such a powerful experience. See both these films for the price of one! Buy a ticket to one screening & see the following feature free. This offer may not be combined with the Series Pass. Fedora Billy Wilder, France/West Germany, 1978: 114m Please note: the only print available is a faded 16mm. Holden’s final collaboration with Wilder was this adaptation of Thomas Tryon’s novel Crowned Heads — for both actor and director a return to Sunset Boulevard territory with 30 more years of moviemaking experience behind them. Holden is the producer who invades the privacy of a Garbo-esque former star named Fedora (Marthe Keller), who stays miraculously young thanks to the special treatments provided by her doctor (Jose Ferrer). The film is just as bitter about Hollywood as the earlier film, if not more so (Wilder has a good time ripping the then - modern moviemaking community to shreds). But it’s a more becalmed film made from an old man’s perspective. Wilder worked with many of his most valued collaborators, including his writing partner of many years I.A.L. Diamond and his legendary set designer Alexandre Trauner, not to mention Holden himself. Together they give Fedora a deliberately archaic feel, and create a bittersweet elegy to the Old Hollywood.

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