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Sunset Boulevard 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. The best-known section of Sunset Boulevard is probably the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, which is a center for nightlife in the Los Angeles area. www.hollywoodusa.co.uk /sunset-boulevard.htm   (1637 words)

Sunset Boulevard Sunset Boulevard, one of the world's most famous streets, was born as a route between those two divergent worlds. Sunset Blvd is a long, winding thoroughfare which begins in downtown Los Angeles, near Olvera Street (the birthplace of the city), and runs westward over 20 miles to the blue Pacific. At 5746 Sunset Boulevard (at the SE corner of Van Ness) in Hollywood was the Fox Network / KTTV Studios, where they taped "Maude," "One Day at a Time" and "The Jeffersons." However, Fox moved to the West Side, and plans call for a new school to be built on the site. www.seeing-stars.com /Streets/SunsetBlvd.shtml   (1482 words)

The Sunset Strip Sunset Boulevard is famous, but the best known portion of the boulevard is the mile and a half stretch of Sunset between Hollywood and Beverly Hills that has been dubbed "The Sunset Strip." And on the north side of Sunset is another major comedy club on the Strip: The Comedy Store, at 8433 Sunset, where stand-up comics such as Jay Leno got their big break. When the boundary lines were drawn, this stretch of Sunset fell outside of the borders of the city of Los Angeles, and it flourished as an independent region not subject to the city's laws. www.seeing-stars.com /Streets/SunsetStrip.shtml   (2095 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)

Sunset Boulevard: A Ransom Movie Review   (Site not responding. Last check: ) 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. Never mind those who realize that history is an integral aspect of the truly Christian mind, and that those who rightly believe an understanding of movies and their content to be a key ingredient to comprehending American culture—and therefore our neighbor across the street—will always seek to understand the history of that medium. 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. www.ransomfellowship.org /articles_movies/M_Sunset.html   (1076 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. Each of its main characters are in different stages of Hollywood-induced digression; Norma and Max, forgotten icons of the past who have deteriorated into near insanity; Joe, a screenwriter who is beginning to get the idea; and Betty Schaefer, his love interest, who is still fresh and naïve to the scene. www.plume-noire.com /movies/cult/sunsetblvd.html   (725 words)

Movie - Sunset Boulevard Movies DVDs at JB Hi-Fi Australia Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, an ageing silent film queen, and William Holden as the struggling writer who is held in thrall by her madness, created two of the screen's most memorable characters in Billy Wilder's immortal Sunset Boulevard. From the unforgettable opening sequence through the inevitable unfolding of tragic destiny, Sunset Boulevard is the definitive statement on the dark and desperate side of Hollywood. Erich Von Stroheim as Desmond's discoverer, ex-husband, and butler, and Nancy Olson as the bright spot in unrelenting ominousness, are equally memorable. www.jbhifionline.com.au /dvds/id/79585   (514 words)

Sunset Boulevard Sunset Blvd. is one of those great movies that has become a part of popular culture (the line "All right, Mr. Amazon.com: In "Sunset Boulevard," an episode from the PBS series focusing on great streets of the world, the 27 miles of Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles are traveled by an appropriately offbeat tour guide, songwriter Randy Newman. Artist Ed Ruscha meets up with Newman and shows off his book of photos of Sunset Boulevard, and to showcase the stretch of Sunset that winds through some of the most expensive real estate on earth, Newman accompanies a realtor for a tour of a mansion that once belonged to Jayne Mansfield. www.magnificentvideos.com /vhs/sunset_boulevard.htm   (542 words)

Sunset Blvd. (1950) - Movie Reviews at TopTenReviews.com Billy Wilder's ``Sunset Boulevard'' is the portrait of a forgotten silent star, living in exile in her grotesque mansion, screening her old films, dreaming of a comeback. Sunset Boulevard is a film that has transcended its own success, achieving a level of popularity so beyond such trivial matters as box office, critical accolades and Academy Award nominations that it has become a part of the cinematic vernacular itself. 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. movies.toptenreviews.com /reviews/mr299415.htm   (1410 words)

Stage Review: 'Sunset Boulevard' blends movie myth, dark musical romance The purple strains of regret still predominate in the lush musical score, and glamour and opulence are still hinted at in the draperies and oak of the decor, but this "Sunset Boulevard" is built to move -- literally and figuratively. Movie and play are simultaneous, intertwined just as Norma's life is inseparable from the screen fantasies that are her true reality. Her vulnerability is in her eyes, not her body, and is most obvious in her unsteady accent, just like a movie star whose broad A's crack to reveal the hometown vowels within. www.post-gazette.com /magazine/19981202susnet3.asp   (751 words)

Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition) Sunset Blvd. is one of those great movies that has become a part of popular culture (the line "All right, Mr. Sunset Boulevard is considered to be one of the best movies ever made, and I wholeheartly agree. All About Eve was a good movie, but Sunset Boulevard is a far better movie, that 56 years later stands the test of time. www.dvd-today.com /dvd/B00003CXCW/Sunset_Boulevard_Special_Collectors_Edition.html   (1363 words)

Sunset Boulevard (1950) Starring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim - Three Movie Buffs Review William Holden is the struggling screenwriter who pulls into Norma's driveway on Sunset Boulevard to avoid having his car repossessed. The movie Queen is laying to rest her cherished pet chimpanzee with all the solemnity of a real funeral. That said, the movie is a wonderful, yet sad look into the private life of a movie star who is "still proudly waving to a parade that has long since passed." High melodrama with Gloria Swanson hamming it up every chance she gets. www.threemoviebuffs.com /review.php?movieID=sunsetboulevard   (475 words)

Sunset Boulevard - The Classic Film Scores Of Franz Waxman - Charles Gerhardt, Music Downloads - Online Sunset Boulevard - The Classic Film Scores Of Franz Waxman FROM CONNECT - Music Downloads Powered by Sony. Review: This is a superb entry in RCA Victor's "Classic Film Scores" series of releases from the early '70s, and it's no surprise that it has endured in the catalog longer than virtually any other part of that series. The other major highlights include the deeply evocative, bracing, and ironic scoring for Sunset Boulevard and Waxman's dark, psychologically driven music for Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca, with The Philadelphia Story lightening the mood a bit with its Gershwin-esque charm, and the late-career exoticism of Taras Bulba closing the CD. musicstore.connect.com /album/004/Charles-Gerhardt/Sunset-Boulevard-The-Classic-Film-Scores-Of-Franz-Waxman/500000000000002239619.html   (255 words)

Amazon.com: Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition): DVD: William Holden,Gloria Swanson,Erich von Stroheim,Nancy ...   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Sunset Boulevard is a film that will stay with me forever and one that's become a classic for one really good reason: It's a flawless production. Sunset Boulevard is, to this day, one of the most unique films ever done. Sunset Boulevard is noir at its best, a simple story of obsessive love gone wrong, but the characters. www.amazon.com /Sunset-Boulevard-Special-Collectors-William/dp/B00003CXCW   (1742 words)

S Allwatchers.com: Sunset Boulevard - Analytical review of the plot, characters, setting, theme, and structure of the William Holden film, and links to similar movies.. Sunset Boulevard (1950) - Photographs, synopsis and review from Christina Lui and Karl Hill.. Sunset Boulevard - The Movie Web Site - The online tribute to the classic film by director Billy Wilder.. www.opentopia.com /dir/Arts/Movies/Titles/S/Sunset_Boulevard   (157 words)

Sunset Boulevard Movie Review First of all, Gloria Swanson was really a silent movie star and was retired by the time Wilder cast her to the movie. Sunset Boulevard portrays the other side of Hollywood, the dark side, that exists under all the lights and glamour. Sunset Boulevard is not only a great movie from one of the greatest directors of Hollywood’s golden age, but also a cinema’s history class, to be seen, studied and kept forever. thecelebritycafe.com /movies/full_review/12126.html   (370 words)

GoneMovie.com Review -> Sunset Boulevard starring William Holden and Gloria Swanson. Directed by Billy Wilder 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). Sunset Boulevard was adapted into a musical in 1993, with a score by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Sunset Boulevard is a street in the western part of Los Angeles County and stretches approximately twenty-two miles in length. www.gonemovies.com /WWW/Drama/Drama/EnglischSunsetBoulevard.asp   (701 words)

BBC - Films - review - Sunset Boulevard The creepy residence is home to just two people: faded movie star Norma Desmond (the hypnotic Gloria Swanson), and devoted manservant Max (Erich von Stroheim, who'd pass for miserable if he lightened up a little). Desmond is planning an unlikely movie comeback, and wants Cecil B DeMille to direct her hapless version of "Salome". "Sunset Boulevard" is both a savage indictment of the star system (and the monsters it produces), and an all-too-knowing depiction of a writer's impotence in Hollywood - the more Gillis takes from Desmond, the more emasculated and powerless he becomes. www.bbc.co.uk /films/2001/04/10/sunset_boulevard_1950_review.shtml   (400 words)

Sunset Boulevard 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. An aura of rancid melancholy hangs heavy over much of Sunset Boulevard; when Gillis makes his New Year's Eve escape to a party hosted by his friend Artie Green (a startling Jack Webb, in unlikely hepcat mode), his sense of relief is as palpable as it is inevitably short-lived. It's true that his visual style is a fairly elemental one; apart from the opening shot tracking away from the title etched on a sidewalk and down the famous boulevard as approaching police cars come into view, his camera set-ups are generally static and unadorned. www.culturevulture.net /Movies/SunsetBoulevard.htm   (919 words)

Ron Bohmer as Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard Whether she was acting out the role of "Salome"; ascending the grand stairs in a frantic, drunken state to slit her wrists; or gazing longingly in the spotlight at Paramount; Linda Balgord brought Norma Desmond to life on the stage like no one else. In addition, while watching him in Sunset Boulevard, his amazing stage ability to add depth and passion to his characters through his singing abilities was overwhelming. Having been blessed with Sunset Boulevard scheduled to play at the Fox Theatre in St. Louis and the Civic Opera House in Chicago during the first year of its planned six-year run, this time living in the Midwest definitely paid off. www.ronbohmer.com /sunset.html   (1072 words)

Sunset Boulevard Review Movie Review Film Sunset Boulevard: Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Erich Von Stroheim, Nancy ... In "Sunset Boulevard," silent screen actress Norma Desmond lives a life of solitude in a world that has all but remembered her, though she fails- no, refuses, to see things as such. Nancy Olsen is just right for the role, providing her character with enough bubbling personality to make it all-the-more clear that Gillis, when the two become semi-involved, wishes to shield her from the loss of innocence that comes as a result of making it to the top. It is for all these reasons that "Sunset Boulevard" isn't just a movie, but a milestone of cinema, and one of the all-time greatest achievements. www.movieeye.com /reviews/read_movie_review/973.html   (821 words)

Sunset Boulevard You see, the body of a young man was found floating in the pool of her mansion - with two shots in his back and one in his stomach. Giants of the movie industry appear in cameo roles: Buster Keaton and H.B. Warner are in Norma's bridge group. He made many great movies, perhaps, most famously, Some Like it Hot, but Sunset Boulevard is the pinnacle of his output. www.unverse.com /SunsetBoulevard.html   (695 words)

Hollywood Boulevard They went to the Grauman's Chinese Theatre forecourt, looked at the stars' footprints, quickly saw that the Boulevard was not what they imagined it would be, shooktheir heads and headed back to their cars, certain that there was nothing much more to do in the area. The Boulevard always looks better at night, and this is one time each year when it's also relatively safe after dark. To reach Hollywood Boulevard from downtown Los Angeles, take the Hollywood (101) Freeway north to the Hollywood Boulevard exit, then head west (about a mile and a half) to Grauman's Chinese Theatre, which will be on your right (north) side. www.seeing-stars.com /Streets/HollywoodBlvd.shtml   (1624 words)

Sunset Boulevard - Rotten Tomatoes Billy Wilder's masterpiece SUNSET BOULEVARD, a corrosive fl comedy that remains the most memorable assault on the emptiness and vanity of the movie business, stars William Holden as young, down-and-out screenwriter Joe Gillis. The best thing about watching old movies is discovering the ones that feel so modern that, with a few touches here and there, barely altering the original product, they could actually fit right in with the quality movies of today. Few pictures are greater than Sunset Boulevard, Billy Wilder's scathing assault on Hollywood's magnetism, aura, and fear of watching it pass you by... www.rottentomatoes.com /m/sunset_boulevard   (783 words)

Sunset Boulevard - The Movie Web Site Please add your own entry before you leave, as I would love to hear from you. Sunset Boulevard, its story, characters and images are property of Paramount Pictures. If any copyrighted images have been included in this website, please inform the webmaster by e-mail, and they shall immediately be removed. www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Theater/6980   (234 words)

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