Sunset Boulevard

Pros: Swanson and Von Stroheim return in great perfs with William Holden
Cons: great films like great stars never die

Today the events that take place in Sunset Boulevard would become the concept for a reality TV show.  When the film was released it was consider the bleakest scathing view of the Hollywood image-making machinery, and unbelievably condoned by ...

Pros: Now this is acting, old but acting
Cons: none

I have a wonderful CD by Streisand, Back to Broadway, that contains several songs from the play Sunset Boulevard. I have always been so enchanted by these songs that I swore one day I would see the movie, not realizing it in no way...

Pros: This has it all -- Story, Acting, Cinematography, Score!
Cons: A little too close to the truth! Swanson was a has-been...

Sunset Boulevard (1950) A harsh dose of reality, for those of us who believe the publicity ground out by Hollywood, was administered by director Billy Wilder in this candid look at the seamy underbelly of Tinseltown. Wilder can only be classified ...

Pros: The irony and the story.
Cons: Few if any.

There are books that writers should read, and movies that writers should watch and study. Such a movie is Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard (1950).

The reason this is such a good movie for writers is because the male lead in this (a...

Pros: Writing, direction, performances, music, photography! DVD Extras!
Cons: None, unless you don't like the story.

At last on DVD is the most cynical indictment of Hollywood by Hollywood itself via Director-writer Billy Wilder and his writing partner Charles Brackett. They collaborated on the script with D.M. Marshman, Jr. Their 1950 film 'Sunset Boulevard' is a...

Pros: Acting, Gloria Swanson, the irony of the film and reality, costumes.
Cons: Nothing!

To start this review out...I am almost humiliated to say that this film sort of actually scared me. I've seen piles and piles of horror movies and am rarely scared...maybe 1 out of ever 30 scare me. But this movie..."Sunset Boulevard" kind of creeped me ...

Pros: Everything lost on television gets a full and ample treatment widescreen.
Cons: Chances to see it on widescreen don't come along much. So take advantage.

Television sets are, usually, perfectly okay mediums for showing films intended and shot for the big screen. Nearly every film loses a bit of an image here or a subtletey in the soundtrack there because of size and acoustic limitations (and I'm not...

Pros: performances, script, cinematography, direction
Cons: none

I collect classic-movie viewing experiences on the big screen like some folks collect fine wines so as I was driving home one day past the local second-run art movie theater I could not miss the marquee: Sunset Boulevard. Not having heard of a ...

Pros: Acting, plot, dialouge, Famous sceens.
Cons: At times is a little giggle-worthy.

Ever heard the line "I'm read for my close-up Mr. Demille"? If not then you are missing out on one of the greatest films of all time.
"Sunset Boulevard" is many things, a pop culture time capsule, period piece, a dictionary to classic films,...

Pros: Billy Wilder's style, script, performances
Cons: more visual than emotional

Of all Billy Wilder’s cinematic creations, the most inspired is arguably the device of having “Sunset Boulevard” (1950) narrated by a dead man. The movie opens with the unforgettable image of screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden) floating upside down...

Pros: Supporting Characters
Cons: Slow start, silly, cynical, unlikeable main characters

There are a few movies that I feel every classic movie fan should see at least once. Sunset Boulevard is one of those movies, so when I saw it checked in at the library I snatched it up. I had never seen it before, but I did know a lot about it. The...

Pros: The suspense, acting, story, complexity, mystery, and Betty was cute.
Cons: What's with that Monkey?!??!?!

"Ok Mr. Demille. I'm ready for my close up." I had always wondered where this famous film quote came from. My answer came at the shocking ending to "Sunset Blvd." This is a legendary film, filled with romance, suspense, mystery, and...

Pros: Exceptional acting and direction
Cons: None -- it's perfect!

Billy Wilder is one of my favorite directors, and "Sunset Boulevard" is possibly my favorite picture among his credentials. The story itself draws you in: A handsome but not-too-successful young Hollywood scriptwriter is simply trying to...

Pros: Features Great Performances All Around, As Well as a Fine Story and Direction
Cons: None

In 1976 there was a film called The Front starring Woody Allen as a front writer for those recently blacklisted in the 1950's. Though a nice film on its own front, it does stand as a nice throw-back to the long lost days before filmmaking become...

Pros: story, script, sets
Cons: characters, misanthropic

"Sunset Boulevard" is one of Billy Wilder's most commercially successful and highly praised films. Nominated for eleven Academy Awards, including all the major ones, the film later was adapted into a long-running musical by Andrew Lloyd...