Sunset Boulevard
A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.
17 January 1898, Sandusky, Ohio, USA
August 26, 1928 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA
24 April 1914, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
May 31, 1894 in Redondo Beach, California, USA
February 28, 1913 in Durant, Mississippi, USA
7 March 1909, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
24 May 1889, County Cork, Ireland
27 March 1899, Chicago, Illinois, USA
February 17, 1900 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
18 September 1920, Newark, New Jersey, USA
21 September 1907, New York City, New York, USA
4 February 1915, Salamanca, New York, USA
5 October 1905, USA
July 30, 1914 in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
28 March 1915, McDonald, Pennsylvania, USA
February 14, 1898 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
November 9, 1887 in Lakewood, Ohio, USA
November 6, 1890 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2 April 1920, Santa Monica, California, USA
4 July 1904, Massachusetts, USA
24 March 1910, Portland, Maine, USA
October 11, 1904 in Los Angeles, California, USA
March 21, 1918 in Hollywood, California, USA
24 December 1896, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
July 14, 1890 in Port Orange, Florida, USA
23 December 1904, New York City, New York, USA
25 July 1896, Three Rivers, Michigan, USA
May 5, 1912 in Brooklyn, New York, USA
4 July 1911, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
18 March 1885, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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 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.
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.
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.
August 14, 2007
A tour de force for Swanson and one of Wilder's better efforts.
June 24, 2006
One of Wilder's finest, and certainly the blackest of all Hollywood's scab-scratching accounts of itself.
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.
July 29, 2003
What's not recognized enough is the indelible, self-sickened performance of William Holden as Desmond's boy-toy/hired hack.
August 29, 2012
An uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.
September 29, 2005
Still the best Hollywood movie ever made about Hollywood.
