Month: June 2020

The Seven Year Itch US (1955) Dir. Billy Wilder Yes, the one with THAT scene of Marilyn Monroe in the white dress standing over the air vent. It’s an iconic moment that has spawned a million imitators (Monroe herself even recreated it sans underwear for a photo shoot a couple of years later) but what […]… Continue reading The Seven Year Itch —

Great films that have failed to find an audience have been around since the silent era, so it is no surprise, that in the fifties, the same event took place many times, including this powerful, deeply, cynical noir which failed at the box office despite powerhouse performances and a dark troubling story. That is was […]… Continue reading Revisiting The Classics : Billy Wilder’s ‘Ace In The Hole’ (1951) — The Cinemawala

One of Billy Wilder’s greatest films, and a textbook example of how to do a noir so right… and so good. via Double Indemnity (1944) — Eternality Tan

A late career triumph by Billy Wilder that works effectively as a spiritual sequel to his legendary ‘Sunset Boulevard’, as he looked back at the glamour of Hollywood with sad ‘European’ eyes. via Fedora (1978) — Eternality Tan

1950. Gloria Swanson, Billy Wilder and Cecil B. DeMille on the set of Sunset Boulevard via 1950. Gloria Swanson, Billy Wilder and Cecil B. DeMille on the set of Sunset Boulevard – l169 — LUKOMORYE.info

Some films age like fine wine. With each year, they only get better and better. Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot is one of these movies that belong to a prestigious club of “classics” that never go out of style. It first dazzled audiences over 60 years ago, and today, moviegoers are still as enthralled […]… Continue reading Spine #950: “Some Like It Hot” (1959, Billy Wilder) — The Film Retrospective

The writer-director’s humane and often surprisingly dark romantic comedy shows him at his finest with two charming leads in Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine via ‘The Apartment’ at 60: is this Billy Wilder’s finest film? — Friggin’ Doo-A!

By Scott Ross A Technicolor® curio. Although ostensibly based on the 1949 Broadway musical that made a star of Carol Channing, as well as on its source, Anita Loos’ comic novel of 1925, the movie jettisons the plot and most of the Jule Styne/Leo Robin score, adds a couple of pleasing songs by Hoagy Carmichael […]… Continue reading Bust: “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” (1953) — So few critics, so many poets

“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.” —Billy Wilder via Billy Wilder: Trust your own instinct — Quite a Quote!

In 2007, the American Film Institute revised their previous 1998 list of the 100 best American films of all time. This weekly column will explore my thoughts on select films from this list, mostly following along with the Unspooled Podcast, which inspired my journey to complete the AFI Top 100. You can also follow my […]… Continue reading AFI Top 100: It Happened One Night — Cinema Etc.