Topic: Billy Wilder

Replaying the Hollywood ending

I did a double take at the poster.. . The first thought was: Good - a re-release of Straw Dogs, which couldn't possibly be less controversial now ...

Ask Mick LaSalle: Ford, Hitchcock, Wilder timeless

0 . Dear Mick LaSalle: How would you rank John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock and Billy Wilder?. . Alan Kahn, Yountville. . Dear Alan Kahn: (1) Sometimes...

On DVD: A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop

You don't have to look far to find Hollywood remakes of foreign films. Last year's The Tourist was based on the 2005 French film Anthony Zimmer...

The Apartment Movie

The Apartment is a dramatic comedy about the life of an insurance statistician, C.C. " The film was director Billy Wilder's follow-up to his box office success Some Like It Hot .

Gloria Swanson

Born Gloria May Josephine Swanson on March 27, 1899, in Chicago , Illinois, Swanson spent some of her childhood in Key West, Flor. and San Juan, Puerto Rico, but the majority of it she passed in Chicago. Besides acting, she also began and ...

A Flaneur in New York (20: The Matinee Crowd)

Tony Goldwyn and Sean Hayes in Promises, Promises Nov. 3: Today finds me at a matinee performance of Promises, Promises, which isn't where I...

Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder was a Ocean's Eleven 1961 : Kiss Me, Stupid 1966 : The Fortune Cookie 1967 : " - Billy Wilder
Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau became a very familiar pair on screen, starring?together in seven movies. The film?was also the fourth collaboration between Lemmon and director Billy Wilder, a combination which was?verysuccessful. The Fortune Cookie was not as big ...

Movie reviews: Double Indemnity

I?ll admit I am a sucker for 40s film noir, the intrigue of a good mystery, quick witted back and forth dialogue and stylish black and white visuals represent one of the greatest eras in Hollywood filmmaking. Directed by Billy Wilder ...
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