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Sunset Blvd. (1950 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sunset Boulevard is notable for the atmospheric film noir cinematography of John F. Seitz. Sunset Boulevard (also known as Sunset Blvd.) is a 1950 American film noir containing elements of drama, horror, and black comedy. The exterior scenes of the Desmond house were filmed near Sunset Boulevard around an old home built during the 1920s, which by 1949 was owned by the former wife of J. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sunset_Boulevard_(movie)   (5410 words)

Sunset Boulevard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sunset Boulevard (officially known as West Sunset Boulevard, except in Beverly Hills) is a street in the western part of Los Angeles County, California, that stretches from Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Coast Highway at the Pacific Ocean in the Pacific Palisades. Sunset Boulevard used to extend farther east, starting at Alameda Street near Union Station and beside Olvera Street in the historic section of Downtown, but the portion of Sunset Boulevard east of Interstate 110 was renamed César E. Chávez Avenue, along with Macy Street and Brooklyn Avenue, in honor of the late Mexican-American union leader. Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood has also gained notoriety as a red-light district, due to its relatively high share of prostitution, drag queens and other unusual activity, especially at night. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sunset_Boulevard   (547 words)

Sunset Boulevard Film noir meets Phantom of the Opera in Sunset Boulevard, Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical based on the famously tart 1950 Billy Wilder film. In imitation of the film, the musical opens with a murky shot, projected on a scrim, of a body floating in a pool; a nice touch is the recurrence of the lapping-pool-water effect, like foreshadowing, on the scrim. Sunset Boulevard is not awful; the source material is compelling, and an earnest attempt has been made to render it a musical. www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/theater/00/01/13/SUNSET_BOULEVARD.html   (831 words)

Sunset Boulevard review - movie review of the Billy Wilder film starring William Holden Oftentimes, this movie is lumped into the film noir genre, which reached its height in the early- to mid-50s, when Sunset Boulevard opened. Holden narrates the film in a dry, deadpan narration that is a near parody of the narration in contemporary film noir. The film hits home for a number of reasons, probably most of all because the characters portrayed by the actors are so close to their real-life personalities. www.plume-noire.com /movies/cult/sunsetblvd.html   (725 words)

Sunset Boulevard Sunset Boulevard is considered by many to be one of the greatest films ever made. Sunset Boulevard is a magnificent blend of biting satire and black comedy set against a grand backdrop of baroque splendor. But in Sunset, she gave an unforgettable performance playing an unforgettable character and she would forever be associated with Norma Desmond whenever her name was mentioned. home.hiwaay.net /~oliver/gssunset.html   (362 words)

Sunset Boulevard by Billy Wilder Sunset Boulevard is a masterpiece of film noir and a bitter tragic-comedy which shows the dark side of Hollywood's fabric of dreams. The actual house seen in the film (exterior and back gardens; the interiors were shot in a studio) was built in 1924, owned by the former wife of tycoon Jean Paul Getty and not located on Sunset Boulevard. The film title Sunset Boulevard is a metaphor for the state of mind and of the career of the film diva Norma Desmond (played by Gloria Swanson). www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo32/sunset_boulevard.htm   (1033 words)

An Analysis of the Reception of Sunset Boulevard in Postwar America Since Sunset Boulevard was released in 1950, two years prior to the widespread infiltration of the television set into the Western world, it is apparent that many Americans frequently spent their free time going to the movies. The cast of Sunset Boulevard was comprised of a mixture of old Hollywood film stars and modern stars. The distinguished role of the femme fatale is a staple of the film noir genre. www.angelfire.com /film/articles/sunset.htm   (1973 words)

Sunset Boulevard (1950) Sunset may not be as obsessed with the topic as something like The Big Picture, but it delved into that subject in a vicious way. Sunset Boulevard appears in an aspect ratio of 1.33:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; due to those dimensions, the image has not been enhanced for 16X9 televisions. Sunset Boulevard comes to DVD in great shape, and I highly recommend this terrific movie and solid disc. www.dvdmg.com /sunsetboulevard.shtml   (2257 words)

Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard Whereas many film noir heroes either battle the meaninglessness and aimlessness of their existence or face it with a certain toughness, the two protagonists of Sunset Blvd., Norma Desmond, and Joe Gillis represent, respectively, a total denial of their failure and a total resignation to this fact. Although, the film starts with a murder and the story is told through a flashback narration of the events leading up to it, the film is less concerned with crime than with the psychological investigation of the protagonists’ failed ideals. However, it must be admitted that many films emphasize one of these elements over the other: they take on the visual tone of film noir, but in terms of existential mood, they merely reaffirm the established moral order. www.ruspoli.com /film/essays/sunsetblvd.html   (1101 words)

Film/Classic: Sunset Boulevard "Sunset Boulevard" is the most "Gothic" of films, a fascinating study of pathos, ambition, disappointment, and the netherworld between reality and dreams. Many critics regard "Sunset Boulevard" mainly as a dark or black comedy, a biting parody of the paradise known as Hollywood and while it certainly offers an "insider's" view of the movie industry and its the perils of its "fame" machine, "Sunset Boulevard" is much, much more. She tries to encourage him and decides to help him on one of his former scripts that she liked and he begins to sneak out of the Sunset Boulevard mansion to work with him, albeit not without some mixed feelings about the fact that they are attracted to each other. www.thecityreview.com /sunsetb.html   (2607 words)

Sunset Boulevard: Music composed by Franz Waxman: Film Music on the Web CD Reviews January 2003 From the furious bite of the opening 'Sunset Boulevard Prelude' to the startling, near hysterical jazz of 'The Old Bathing Beauty', to the film noir meets Debussy atmospherics of 'Norma's Suspicions' this is a score of breathtaking invention and nocturnal beauty. Sunset Boulevard also reprints a 1989 tribute to Waxman by director Billy Wilder, and as is now customary with Varèse Sarabande re-recordings of classic scores, there is a striking cover painting by Matthew Joseph Peak. This in turn gives way to atmospheric writing of the most uncanny nature, as the film was to begin with corpses talking in a morgue, explaining to each other how they met their end. www.musicweb-international.com /film/2003/Jan03/sunset_boulevard.html   (579 words)

Sunset Boulevard: A Ransom Movie Review Sunset Boulevard was released in 1950 by a producer who is now dead, written by writers, shot by a director, and acted in by actors who are almost all now dead. This shot, so stylized with news and police men frozen in time while the music and the camera focus on the mad “star,&; reveals not only a descent into hell but also an entrance into the real world, a world where she will not be applauded as a star but incarcerated as a killer. She manages to entrap him until he is dependent on her and the luxuries she can afford him, by using tricks ranging from pathetically pleading for help, through offering large sums of money, to simply having her butler move Gillis’ belongings from his apartment to her house without his permission. www.ransomfellowship.org /M_Sunset.html   (1076 words)

The DVD Journal Reviews : Sunset Boulevard: Special Collector's Edition Sunset Boulevard is classic Hollywood filmmaking at its height, yet poised at the cusp between the old style and the new. Less well known is the composer of the film's music, who receives his due in "Franz Waxman and the Music of Sunset Boulevard," a 15-minute featurette that includes statements from Waxman's son and from peers such as Elmer Bernstein. Sunset Boulevard, as is well known, concerns six months in the life of struggling screenwriter Joe Gillis. www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/s/sunsetboulevard.shtml   (1794 words)

Sunset Boulevard (1950) Sunset Boulevard (1950) is a classic black comedy/drama, and perhaps the most acclaimed, but darkest film-noir story about "behind the scenes" Hollywood, self-deceit, spiritual and spatial emptiness, and the price of fame, greed, narcissism, and ambition. Sunset Boulevard was adapted into a musical in mid-1993, with a score by Andrew Lloyd Webber, and first opened in London with Patti LuPone in the lead role. The mood of the film is immediately established as decadent and decaying by the posthumous narrator - a dead man floating face-down in a swimming pool in Beverly Hills. www.filmsite.org /suns.html   (2919 words)

channel4.com/film - Sunset Boulevard Sunset Boulevard is a bitter and twisted film that attacks the vacuous and vapid nature of the Hollywood star system. The film ends with the immortal line "All right Mr De Mille, I'm ready for my close-up" as she descends to face the cops, crowds and news cameras, mistaking them for a film crew. You used to be big." In a taste of the madness and self-delusion that is to mount during the course of the film, she imperiously declares: "I am big. www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=108893   (626 words)

filmcritic.com Movie Review: Sunset Boulevard Sunset Boulevard starts out telling one story -- about a down-on-his-luck writer and serious financial trouble -- and ends up telling another -- about an insane and faded silent-film star who lives in a decrepit old mansion on the titular boulevard. Sunset Boulevard is a demented circus of obsession, greed, and Hollywood. A DVD commentary from Ed Sikov, a Sunset book author, is worth a listen, especially for his description of the gruesome original opening, which was despised by test audiences. www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/84dbbfa4d710144986256c290016f76e/8aa34d79019c8a8a88256c7a0072812d?OpenDocument   (592 words)

Sunset Boulevard It's difficult to imagine now how shattering Sunset Boulevard must have been back in 1950. Sunset Boulevard is not the usual sort of ghost story, however; the only paranormal presence is the one narrating the tale from beyond the grave. The connection between the two films may not be an obvious one, but Norma's New Year's Eve party, where Gillis learns he is the only guest besides a ghostly string quartet playing in the distance, surely influenced the ballroom scenes in Kubrick's horror classic. www.culturevulture.net /Movies/SunsetBoulevard.htm   (919 words)

Dual Lens - Sunset Boulevard Incredibly, the studio lost the camera negative on this film which had to be restored digitally and out-putted back to negative. There are certain lines of movie dialogue that have made their ways into our collective consciousness to such an extent that one needn’t even have seen the films from whence they came to recognize them immediately. She made fewer and fewer films, sometimes going for years in between projects. www.duallens.com /index.asp?reviewId=122403   (1125 words)

GoneMovie.com Review -> Sunset Boulevard starring William Holden and Gloria Swanson. Directed by Billy Wilder Sunset Boulevard is a street in the western part of Los Angeles County and stretches approximately twenty-two miles in length. Sunset Boulevard was adapted into a musical in 1993, with a score by Andrew Lloyd Webber. He pulls into the driveway of a mansion and discovers that the house is haunted by the living, the sepulchral silent film actress Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) and her devoted manservant Max (Erich von Stroheim). www.gonemovies.com /WWW/Drama/Drama/EnglischSunsetBoulevard.asp   (693 words)

ipedia.com: Buster Keaton Article Buster re-married in the late 1930s, and after playing a role in Billy Wilder's 1950 film Sunset Boulevard, he found work in the movies, performing minor roles in films including It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Shortly before he died, Keaton starred in one final short film called The Railrodder for the National Film Board of Canada, which saw him returning to the classic "stone face" role he had known during his heyday in the 1920s. Unfortunately, many of his most acclaimed films performed poorly in the box office due to their sophistication -- the audience had a difficult time seeing Buster as a cinematic artist of considerable ambition. www.ipedia.com /buster_keaton.html   (786 words)

Sunset Boulevard Movie: Sunset Boulevard DVD is available from Bestprices.com SUNSET BOULEVARD was an original selection to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1989. In fact, a clip of the film QUEEN KELLY is used in the film. Von Stroheim was subsequently fired from the shoot, an event alluded to in SUNSET BOULEVARD. www.bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/097360492743IE   (542 words)

Sunset Boulevard Revisited Both are remembered and revered in motion picture history for their work in the silent film era and for their work on Sunset Boulevard. When the film Sunset Boulevard premiered in Hollywood in 1950, the picture caused a riot in the theatre after the feature finished. Her career had died off after the unsuccessful film Music in the Air leaving Swanson to do radio which is what she was doing when Wilder asked her to be in the film. www.stolaf.edu /depts/cis/wp/langes/sunset.html   (875 words)

DVD Review - Sunset Boulevard Above all, "Sunset Boulevard" is a writer’s picture, not a director’s film in the "auteur" sense. Billy Wilder’s 1950 masterwork "Sunset Boulevard" seems all the more miraculous given the circumstances and times in which it was made. Originally, the film opened in a morgue with the dead Gillis "talking" to the other cadavers, which sets up the start of the flashback. www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/sunset_boulevard.shtml   (1294 words)

Combustible Celluloid - Sunset Boulevard Indeed, "Sunset Boulevard" was perhaps the first film of the second generation of Hollywood, and like Jean-Luc Godard's self-referential works, it closed the door on the first generation. "Sunset Boulevard" is arguably Wilder's best film, although it's got stiff competition from such works as "Double Indemnity" (1944), "Ace in the Hole" (1951), "Some Like It Hot" (1959), and "The Apartment" (1960). The three great silent movie directors featured in "Sunset Boulevard" have fallen to different levels. www.combustiblecelluloid.com /sunsetblvd.shtml   (845 words)

Articles - William Desmond Taylor The 1950 film Sunset Boulevard with William Holden and Gloria Swanson featured a fictional, aging silent screen actress named Norma Desmond, whose name was almost certainly borrowed from Taylor's middle name as a way to resonate with the widely publicized scandals of almost thirty years before. In 1999 there was a report that in 1964 silent film actress Margaret Gibson (aka Patricia Palmer), who had worked with both Taylor and Minter and was by then living in the Hollywood Hills on a widow's pension from an oil company, confessed to the murder while dying from a heart attack. A few years later she attempted a comeback in films but the public was uninterested. www.centralairconditioners.net /articles/William_Desmond_Taylor   (1462 words)

Sunset Boulevard--Take Two Under Schulman's direction, the Sunset Boulevard tour is closer to the movie, its skeptical view of stardom, its fascination with the details of filmmaking. However, Sunset Boulevard made another comeback this winter, when a new national tour went on the road, produced by Pace Theatrical Group and Columbia Artists Management, starring Petula Clark as Norma, Lewis Cleale as Joe Gillis, the screenwriter who becomes her lover, and Allen Fitzpatrick as Max, her faithful chauffeur. The techniques of stage and film merge together in the play's climax in which Norma, having murdered Joe and gone hopelessly mad, descends the staircase dressed as Salome, ready to begin filming the movie that will never be. livedesignonline.com /mag/show_business_sunset_boulevardtake_two   (2705 words)

Boulevard Home - Celebrating the musical Sunset Blvd. Glenn Close will star in the £33 million film which is scheduled for release in time for Christmas 2006. After years of stalling and specuation, the movie version of the musical Sunset finally seems to have been given the green light. Boulevard is an unofficial site in no way endorsed by or connected to The Really Useful Group. www.closeup.co.uk /blvd/homepage.htm   (165 words)

MSN Encarta - Sunset Boulevard Sunset Boulevard, motion picture about an aging silent screen star who takes a young screenwriter as a lover. Become a subscriber today and gain access to: encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761598346/Sunset_Boulevard.html   (72 words)

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