Sunset Boulevard
A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.
2 April 1920, Santa Monica, California, USA
4 February 1915, Salamanca, New York, USA
24 April 1914, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
8 September 1905, Dominica, British West Indies
4 July 1911, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
4 July 1904, Massachusetts, USA
24 December 1896, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
22 September 1885, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
July 14, 1890 in Port Orange, Florida, USA
April 28, 1911 in Spokane, Washington, USA
12 August 1881, Ashfield, Massachusetts, USA
19 March 1914, Lincoln, California, 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.
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.
June 24, 2006
One of Wilder's finest, and certainly the blackest of all Hollywood's scab-scratching accounts of itself.
August 29, 2012
An uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.
July 29, 2003
What's not recognized enough is the indelible, self-sickened performance of William Holden as Desmond's boy-toy/hired hack.
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.
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.
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 14, 2007
A tour de force for Swanson and one of Wilder's better efforts.
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.
