Sunset Boulevard Billy Wilder

Sunset Boulevard: A Fresh Avenue for a Familiar Genre

In Billy Wilder’s 1950 classic Sunset Boulevard, an unwitting male protagonist, played by William Holden, falls into the grips of (and is eventually murdered by) a dangerous and scheming former...

In Billy Wilder’s 1950 film Sunset Boulevard, Gloria Swanson plays a former silent film star named Norma Desmond who lives as a wealthy recluse in order to protect herself from the truth of her irrelevance in the public eye. In the film’s first...

Billy Wilder’s 1950 film Sunset Boulevard--today an acclaimed staple of the noir genre--chronicles the demise of screenwriter and narrator Joe Gillis at the hand of Norma Desmond, a silent film has-been clinging desperately to Hollywood relevance....

The Graduate and Sunset Boulevard are two films that follow young men who, though clearly talented and intelligent, cannot seem to succeed in the way they wish they could. In The Graduate, Benjamin Braddock, an accomplished twenty-one year old...

Among the history of the greatest opening title sequences in film history, Sunset Boulevard is rarely even mentioned. Certainly it lacks the panache of L.A. Confidential, the understated elegance of Raging Bull, the typographical aesthetics of ...