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Billy Wilder

Marilyn Monroe: the River and the Itch

by Bill on May 24, 2009

Some decisions don’t work as well as you would like. In fact, they can work against your intentions. For a variety of reasons I’ve had difficulty lately getting back into my movie watching routine which used to be almost a movie a night. The reviews I’ve written account for only a small number of the [...]

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The Seven Year Itch (1955)

by Bill on May 24, 2009

Directed by Billy Wilder I’ve tried watching and enjoying The Seven Year Itch a number of times over the years and always come up with the same feeling: I just don’t like it all that much. In fact, I find it rather dull. I tried again last night and had the same response to it. [...]

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Avanti! (1972)

by Bill on January 18, 2009

Directed by Billy Wilder This movie really surprised me. Though it’s a little long and it definitely has a late 60′s, early 70′s pacing, Avanti! is a delightful and amusing romantic comedy about pretty average people who – can you believe it? – actually look average and not like the botox-ed stars of today. The [...]

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The Apartment (1960)

by Bill on January 18, 2009

Directed by Billy Wilder While Billy Wilder movies are often spoken of in terms of romantic comedies (which many of them are – kind of), the thing that most strikes me about them is the melancholy that informs them. More often than not his lead characters are lonely and sad. The stories that unfold are [...]

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Sunset Boulevard (1950)

by Bill on December 15, 2002

Directed by Billy Wilder We didn’t need dialogue. We had faces! – Nora Desmond – One of the best movies to ever come out of Hollywood is 1950′s Sunset Boulevard, a movie about Hollywood. It’s a kind of anodyne for the glamorous mystique of the movie business. Interestingly, it takes core elements of Hollywood, romance [...]

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