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Ferndale Library Film Club: Sunset Boulevard
Join the conversation! Join the Ferndale Library Film Club.
We'll meet on Tuesday, March 14 at 7:00 pm to discuss Billy Wilder's noir-drama Sunset Boulevard. www.fadl.org/film-club
This is a discussion session where we'll watch a few clips from the film and share our thoughts--
but you'll have to watch the film BEFORE the meeting.
You can place a hold on a library copy here, or stream it on KANOPY.
Sunset Boulevard (1950) is one of the most famous films in the history of Hollywood, and perhaps no film better represents Hollywood's vision of itself. Billy Wilder collaborated on the screenplay with the very able Charles Brackett, and with D. M. Marshman Jr., who later joined the team. Together they created a film both allusive and literate, with Hollywood's worst excesses and neuroses laid out for all to see. After viewing Sunset Boulevard Louis B. Mayer exclaimed: "We should throw this Wilder out of town!" The New York Times, however, gave the movie a rave review, praising "that rare blend of pungent writing, expert acting, masterly direction, and unobtrusively artistic photography." The film was nominated for Best Picture, and Wilder won an Academy Award for Best Story and Best Screenplay.
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