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Sunset Boulevard Reviews
It is Wilder’s passion, and fulminating anger, that fill every frame of this dark and majestic noir.
The iconic work, viewed through today’s lens, shows that Hollywood hasn’t really changed. Much of film is still bold and startling...The clever, stinging dialogue, written by Wilder, with Charles Brackett and D.M. Marshman, is still timely.
The best movie ever made about the film industry, Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard is a dark masterpiece that’s as bilious as it is brilliant.
Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard remains a stunning masterpiece that continues to captivate audiences with its gripping Hollywood tale of faded fame and the struggle to stay relevant in an ever-shifting cinematic landscape.
...that staircase descent... The staging so that the police and cameramen and reporters all basically freeze, so it's like one of her oil canvases of a legendary or mythical figure come to life... [Norma] transcends space and time.
Ultimately, though, what matters most of all is that it is a film with universal appeal — a timeless story, despite its aging stylistic and technical contributions. The fact that it remains so after 75 years is testament of the universal power of cinema.
... the quintessential backstage Gothic noir.
75 years later, Billy Wilder's film noir classic Sunset Boulevard is still just as darkly hilarious, poignantly acted, and satirically biting.
When a movie is still mused upon after 75 years like this, you know you have an undeniably permanent piece of cinema lore.
Movies do not get better than Sunset Boulevard. 75 years later, it stands tall alongside Citizen Kane, The Wizard of Oz, The Godfather, or any other film often named as the greatest.
Sunset Boulevard is every bit as relevant as when it first premiered in 1950, due to Wilder's compelling directing as well as writing.
Its performances, music, cinematography and direction continue to awe-inspire even seventy three years after its release.
Sunset Boulevard is the most intelligent film to come out of Hollywood for years : lest the idea of intelligence in the cinema should lack allure, let me say that it is also one of the most exciting.
Billy Wilder’s chillingly cold-blooded satire of Hollywood is one of his finest films — and indeed arguably one of the greatest movies of the period.
... the blackest of Hollywood’s self-portraits is an old dark house of a ghost story inhabited by the living shadows of its discarded stars.
Thematically, Sunset Boulevard is depressing fiction, but it isn't commonplace, and in its incidental realism, it has a peculiar, ingrown integrity. And for Miss Swanson, of course, it constitutes a veritable triumph.
Disturbing yet bitterly funny, Sunset Blvd. stands as perhaps the greatest of all films about Hollywood.
My nomination for the best movie of the year so far is Sunset Boulevard, starring Gloria Swanson and William Holden. Swanson's comeback portrayal of an aging silent motion picture star who won't face her lost fame and lost youth is unbearably real.
Sunset Boulevard is like no other picture that was ever made. They threw away all the old patterns when they made this one.
Smashing drama of the old-fashioned kind, plus elegant perceptive characterization of the modern school, combined to make Sunset Boulevard one of the greatest films of the decade.