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	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: 2007-11-05)
		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.
		Put aside the fact that Sunset Boulevard continues to make a difference in the discussion of film theory in the West, and that it ranks high in the American Film Institute’s list of the hundred greatest movies of all time.
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	Sunset Boulevard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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 14523 Sunset Boulevard (on the right side of the street) is the entrance to Will Rogers State Historic Park, in Pacific Palisades, former ranch home of the cowboy humorist.
	www.seeing-stars.com /Streets/SunsetBlvd.shtml (1451 words)

	Milestone movies: Sunset Boulevard (1950) - Sify.com
		Sunset Boulevard (1950), the movie that generated such anger and heat in its preview was about the under-belly and scandals of the Mecca of Movies, Hollywood.
		Sunset Boulevard is all about an aged and wrinkled former movie queen who is working on her autobiography and also trying to stage a come-back.
		Sunset Boulevard was shot in the unoccupied mansion in a quiet part of Los Angeles owned by the second wife of one of the richest men in the world J. Paul Getty, the oil baron.
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	American Cinematographer: DVD Playback April 2003
		That was the case in 1950, when Paramount sneaked Sunset Boulevard in the swanky Chicago suburb of Evanston, and the audience uniformly rejected the film's opening sequence.
		Sunset Boulevard was honored with 11 Academy Award nominations - including one in every acting category and nods for cinematography, art direction, story/screenplay, director and picture - and it won three.
		Gillis describes Norma Desmond's mansion, where most of the film's action transpires, as "crumbling apart in slow motion." It's a monument to the forgotten, and on film the shadows in which Desmond dwells appear to have a life of their own; in the digital version they are clean, still and cold.
	www.theasc.com /magazine/april03/dvd (393 words)

	Combustible Celluloid - Sunset Boulevard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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.
		Yet the events having to do with past years are more vivid; Desmond showing Gillis her old movies, and the "waxworks" (including the great Buster Keaton) playing cards.
		"Sunset Boulevard" is a high-style movie, not meant to unleash any emotional revelations.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /sunsetblvd.shtml (834 words)

	Sunset Boulevard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		"Sunset Boulevard" was of course, the name of the famous 1950 movie starring William Holden and Gloria Swanson.
		Sunset Boulevard is a long, winding boulevard which begins in downtown Los Angeles, and runs westward over 20 miles to the Pacific Ocean.
		Corner of Sunset Boulevard and Courtney Ave, Hollywood this is the spot where Hugh Grant picked up prostitute Divine Brown and drove around the corner to park (at the corner of Hawthorne and Carson).
	www.hollywoodusa.co.uk /sunset-boulevard.htm (1017 words)

	Sunset Boulevard (1950)
		Sunset Boulevard (1950) is a classic fl 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 curb is stenciled with SUNSET BLVD. - the image is an appropriate metaphor for the tawdry exposé to follow.
	www.filmsite.org /suns.html (3006 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: DVD: Sunset Boulevard [1950] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sunset Boulevard isn't without pathos, most notably in Erich von Stroheim's protective butler who wants only to shield his mistress from the stark truths that are massing against her.
		Gloria Swanson had only made one movie since 1934, similar to the Norma character, but her career did make a modest comeback in later years and she was in 5 more movies after the present success.
		The movie is fine, and I admire the Billy Wilder's writers imagination - it is in fact about a writer, but I thought that the movie set in a decaying mansion on Sunset Boulevard, with the rats in the swimming pool and all the decay, was off putting.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00007KFOF (1639 words)

	Three Movie Buffs Review Sunset Boulevard (1950) Starring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim
		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 (481 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.
		When I sat down to write this, I tried to think of any other movies Gloria Swanson had appeared in, and I couldn't: Her performance in Sunset Boulevard is so powerful it screws with your mind.
		Sunset Boulevard is a demented circus of obsession, greed, and Hollywood.
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	'Sunset Boulevard' offers moments splendid, sad
		There's a scene in "Sunset Boulevard" in which washed-up movie star Norma Desmond (Petula Clark), believing she's about to make a new film after all these years, pumps her fists in excitement; they do the jumping up and down that aging Norma no longer can.
		Two subplots add texture, as they did in the movie: the story of Norma's butler, Max von Meyer-ling (Allen Fitzpatrick), and his devotion to her; and the burgeoning collaboration and romance between Joe and aspiring young screenwriter Betty Schaefer (Sarah Uriarte Berry).
		Max makes it possible for Norma to continue believing she is the star she once was; he is in awe not of the illusion but the tenacity with which she clings to it.
	www.freep.com /fun/arts/qsunset4.htm (533 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Sunset Boulevard (1950)
		But it's not just Hollywood: the narration in American Beauty, for instance, is clearly an homage to Sunset Boulevard, and David Lynch rarely misses an opportunity to slip in a reference to the picture, in Twin Peaks especially.
		Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back (25m:52s) runs through some basics on the history of the film: Mae West and Mary Pickford turned down the role of Norma, and Montgomery Clift was the first choice for Joe.
		Felix Waxman and the Music of Sunset Boulevard (14m:28s) is both a fond look back at the film's composer and a useful primer on film scoring, courtesy of Waxman's son John, a historian; Elmer Bernstein, veteran film composer himself; and John Mauceri, a conductor.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=4197 (1701 words)

	Sunset Blvd. (1950) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Fifty years later, such mastery in craftmanship still shows by still being fresh and alive, evident from the first of the unforgettable reels when William Holden's character, an unknown writer, is lying face down and dead in the pool of an extremely possessive star of the silent screen.
		One of the more interesting contenders at the Oscars "Sunset" had that year was "All About Eve".
		This movie unfortunately made Gloria Swanson be better remembered by us as the tragic aging movie queen of the silent era, who was one of the many actors and actresses who phased out as the sound picture experiments became a sensation.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0043014 (653 words)

	Review of Sunset Boulevard (1950) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It's narrated post-mortem by Joe Gillis (William Holden), who has a sizable chunk of screen time, but Sunset Boulevard is really about Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), a faded star from the silent era who's been a recluse for twenty years, unable to face the truth that Hollywood no longer needs her services.
		But Sunset Boulevard is his crowning achievement—very line is spat out with the utmost contempt for something, it seems, and there's not a cliché in sight...not even hiding in a cobwebby corner of that large prison at Sunset.
		As Sunset Boulevard progresses, clues begin to unearth themselves until we come to the startling revelation that not only was Max one of Norma's first directors, but also her first husband...and gave up his career to come back as her whipped servant.
	www.ecinemacenter.com /sunsetboulevard.html (790 words)

	Sunset Boulevard: Collector's Edition on DVD - MovieWeb
		Unable to sell his most recent chef-d'oeuvre, and in hock up to his eyeballs, Joe stashes his car in the driveway of what appears to be an abandoned mansion on Sunset Boulevard, while trying to elude some persistent repo men.
		Closer inspection reveals the decrepit property to be inhabited by grandiose former silent movie goddess Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), and her zombie-like manservant Max (Erich von Stroheim).
		Wilder's merciless portrait of the dangers of a profession that trades in fantasy, cagily couples the cynical amorality of the never-was with the near-psychotic narcissism of the has-been to reveal the vacuity of wealth and the transience of fame.
	movieweb.com /dvd/dvd.php?097360492743 (416 words)

	Sunset Boulevard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The demented old movie queen lives in the past, assisted by her devoted (but intimidating) butler, Max (played by Erich von Stroheim, the legendary director of Greed and Swanson's own lost epic, Queen Kelly).
		Norma dreams of making a comeback in a remake of Salome to be directed by her old colleague Cecil B. DeMille (as himself), and Joe becomes her literary and romantic gigolo.
		Sunset Blvd. is one of those great movies that has become a part of popular culture (the line "All right, Mr.
	www.thescorestation.com /SunsetBoulevard.html (135 words)

	The BigScreen Cinema Guide: Reader Reviews - Sunset Boulevard (1950)
		The love of old movies had bounded together a screenwriter Joe Grills played by William Holden and a fading movie star name Norma Desmond, played by Gloria Swanson who sees a comeback in her future.
		The movie is told though the point of view of Gillis, who is dead when the film open.
		"Sunset Boulevard" is more than 50 years old, but the ideas that came from that movie is still fresh today.
	www.bigscreen.com /ReaderReview.php?movie=SunsetBoulevard1950 (351 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Sunset Boulevard at Epinions.com
		Back before anyone figured out that movies would become as ubiquitous as the daily newspaper, could envision videos, cable on demand or the internet, going to the movie theater was an event.
		From the moment the movie opens we know Joe is doomed and by the end may wonder that the whole world that is tinsel town hasn’t gone down with him.
		Sunset Boulevard would not be Sunset Boulevard without either of them.
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	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.
		To see footage of the real Swanson, speaking with her actual voice, is to be shocked anew by the transformative power of movies.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/SunsetBoulevard.htm (919 words)

	GoneMovie.com Review -> Sunset Boulevard starring William Holden and Gloria Swanson. Directed by Billy Wilder
		Sunset Boulevard was adapted into a musical in 1993, with a score by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
		The movie was the last major Hollywood feature to be filmed on a nitrate negative.
		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 (693 words)

	JOE, Quick Term Papers, Term papers, 051016 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The role of the narrator, the dead Joe Gillis, in the 1950 movie "Sunset Boulevard".
		This essay is on the 1950 movie "Sunset Boulevard".
		One of the things that is used to establish the form of irony and realism necessary to burst the glittering bubbles is the 'dead-pan voice over' by the murdered Joe Gillis.
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	Complete summary of Sunset Boulevard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The mansion turned out to be inhabited by vain, reclusive, silent movie star Norma Desmond and her stern yet devoted butler Max.
		When Joe told Norma he was a screenwriter, she had him read her script for Salome, which she planned to use for her return to movies.
		A deluded Norma prepared herself for her return to movies, while Joe secretly wrote a script with Betty and grew more attracted to her.
	www.eskimo.com /~noir/ftitles/sunset/sum2.shtml (610 words)

	Sunset Boulevard (1950) - FilmAffinity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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	Sunset Boulevard Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		1950 (Not Rated) An aging star befriends a seemingly innocent fan who really wants to take over and inhabit the star's life.
		1952 (Not Rated) The ugly side of the movie business is exposed through a tale of a ruthless movie producer who uses people to further his ambitions.
		1950 (Not Rated) Screenwriter accused of murder becomes entangled with starlet neighbor in suspenseful, emotionally complex noir.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=1987 (162 words)

	Amazon.com: DVD: Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition) (1950) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The highlights of the Sunset Boulevard DVD are a standout transfer and three 2002 documentaries.
		This is supposed to be a minor classic in the genre of hollywood movies about hollywood, but it's hard to see what's so great about it.
		Most of the movie takes place within the decrepit mansion of Desmond, which despite its emptiness and size still manages to feel claustrophic.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00003CXCW?v=glance (1687 words)

	Rotten Tomatoes Forums - Sunset Boulevard - ( 1950 ) - Billy Wilder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Wilder was a genius and he proved it in almost every movie he made.
		As for Sunset Blvd. I think it's not only Wilder's best, but one of the greatest films ever made, it has a spot firmly in my top 10.
		The other Wilder movies I have seen are also ones that I like a lot: Double Indemnity and Witness For The Prosecution.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/showthread.php?t=160024 (1110 words)

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	Sunset Boulevard - The Story (Page 1 of 4)
		As the movie opens, we see a man floating face down in the swimming pool of a luxurious mansion.
		The man, Joe Gillis, is a screenwriter who has been shot and is very much dead.
		Sunset Boulevard, its story, characters and images, are property of Paramount Pictures.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Theater/6980/sbstory.htm (511 words)

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