Sunset Boulevard
Making lists is an activity moviegoers are fond of. Every year, the same ritual: compilation of the ten best films, with comparative analyses, debates, heated discussions. But what about the ultimate list of the most outstanding films in the history of cinema? That is to say, those films that must be seen, those that have forever transformed the art of cinema, but also our way of seeing a culture, of understanding the world as well as our own lives? This program aims to tackle this challenge with nearly eighty films, produced between 1916 and 1960, while waiting for your lists!
A great silent film actress hires a broke screenwriter to write a script that will mark her return to the screen. Under the eye of her ex-husband, who has become her butler, he becomes her lover.
Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder is an American director, producer, and screenwriter of film noirs and comedies. He is one of the most influential figures in 20th-century American cinema, especially in the 1950s and 1960s. Four of his films are included in the American Film Institute's Top 100 list, a distinction shared only with Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick. Over his career, he directed fourteen actors who earned Academy Award nominations for their performances. In the 2002 Sight & Sound poll, he was ranked seventh greatest director of all time. In 1986, he received the AFI Life Achievement Award, an honor given annually by the American Film Institute for outstanding contributions to the art of film.
