Notes on…

Sunset Boulevard(1950)

Dir. Directed by Billy Wilder


[In the] late afternoon of the studio system, Wilder’s exercise in gothic neorealism is pure magic hour, satirizing yet attesting to the power of motion pictures to reanimate the past and raise the dead.

J. Hoberman (Artforum)

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A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.