Although Billy Wilder won fame for directing films, especially several brilliant ones between 1944 and 1960, he was always a screenwriter. He never directed a film he did not write; his writing career has spanned more than fifty years. Nurtured in the st...

Billy Wilder (born 1906) has been honored repeatedly as one of Hollywood's finest directors, writers, and producers. He created more than 50 films, encompassing such well-known comedies as The Apartment and Some Like It Hot and award-winning dramas inclu...

Axel Madsen writes of Sunset Boulevard (1950) that it is "a gnawing, haunting, and ruthless film with a dank smell of corrosive delusion hanging over it." A classic film noir, Sunset Boulevard is a cynical and decadent tragi-comedy...

Sunset Boulevard (also known as Sunset Blvd.) is a 1950 American film noir classic. Directed and co-written by Billy Wilder, it was named after the famous boulevard of the same name that runs through Los Angeles and Beverly Hills. It stars William...

GLENN CLOSE and Ewan McGregor are to star in a pounds 33 million film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Sunset Boulevard. Close, 58, who won a Tony Award for her portrayal of Norma Desmond in the Broadway version of the show, has...

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It is surprising how loath film-makers have been to make films about themselves, or about the magic medium of illusion they transmit to the world. As egotistical and narcissistic as most film artists are—including the writers and directors, who are the crucial creators, of course—they have seldom dared turn their cameras on their own involuted lives or explore the cultural importance and impermanence of most of the work they do. For that reason, Sunset Boulevard … was not only rare as a...

Considers how the film Sunset Boulevard, directed in the 1950's by director Billy Wilder, depicts celebrity in a negative perspective. Discusses themes and issues portrayed in the film.

The examination of celebrity vanity in the classic film "Sunset Boulevard" and in modern-day celebrity reality shows and magazine celebrity articles.