Capital Celluloid 2025 — Day 357: Thu Dec 25

Sunset Boulevard (Wilder, 1950): JW3 Cinema, 341-351 Finchley Rd, NW3 12.30pm

This film screens at JW3 Cinema from December 21st to 25th. Details here.

Chicago Reader review:
Billy Wilder's searing, funny, morbid look at the real tinsel beneath the phony tinsel (1950). Aging silent-movie vamp Gloria Swanson takes up with William Holden, a two-bit screenwriter on the make, and virtually holds him captive in her Hollywood gothic mansion. Erich von Stroheim, once her director, now her butler, is the other figure in this menage-a-weird. A tour de force for Swanson and one of Wilder's better efforts.

Dan Druker

Here (and above) is the trailer.

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