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Billy Wilder June 22, 1906 - March 27, 2002 Those "Girls Gone Wilder", Kellee (Outspoken and Freckled) and Aurora (Once Upon a Screen), are hosting a birthday party/blogathon in honour of the inestimable Billy Wilder on June 22nd.  I want to bring a little music to the festivities. BILLY W read more

Billy Wilder Blogathon 2015 14 Sunday Jun 2015 Posted by Summer Reeves in 1970s, Comedy, Mystery ≈ Leave a comment Tags1970s, Billy Wilder, Blogathon, Sherlock Holmes *Announcement* As part of the Billy Wilder Bloga read more

Billy Wilder. What an incredible director, but also a marvellous movie writer. After Alfred Hitchcock, he is my second favourite movie director. Some Like it Hot is my favourite film and Sunset Boulevard is my favourite screenplay.  Well, on June 22, 2015, I’ll be happy to participate to the read more

Ace in the Hole moves while the script–from director Wilder, Lesser Samuels and Walter Newman–never races. In fact, it’s deliberate and methodical, maybe even redundant at times (especially in the first act). The redundant moments aren’t actually a problem since Kirk Douglas read more

I absolutely adore Billy Wilder. For me, he is right there behind Alfred Hitchcock. The man totally understands the crazy behavior of humans, therefore he gets comedy and drama like no one else. I admit I haven’t seen all of Wilder’s films, but I’ve seen a good portion of them, so read more

1. Sunset Boulevard 2. Some Like it Hot 3. Double Indemnity 4. Witness for the Prosecution 5. Stalag 17 6. The Apartment 7. Sabrina 8. The Lost Weekend 9. Ace in the Hole 10. One, Two, Three 11. The Seven Year Itch 12. The Fortune Cookie 13. The Spirit of St. Louis 14. Irma la Douce 15. A Foreign Af read more

1. Sunset Boulevard 2. Some Like it Hot 3. Double Indemnity 4. Witness for the Prosecution 5. Stalag 17 6. The Apartment 7. Sabrina 8. The Lost Weekend 9. Ace in the Hole 10. One, Two, Three 11. The Seven Year Itch 12. The Fortune Cookie 13. The Spirit of St. Louis 14. Irma la Douce 15. A Foreign Af read more

A Surprise Buddy Picture Ah, the Mobius Strip That Is the Moral Path I love that The Fortune Cookie is structured like a caper film. The adventure is about two guys trying to make big money out of a small accident: will they get the money? will they give up? will they read more

Wilder, Kästner, Emil and the Detectives For the Billy Wilder Blogathon I wanted to cover a film, in this case films, that occurred early in Wilder’s career. The reason is because while it’s nearly impossible to know film without having stumbled upon Wilder’s work (even by accident) I can’t read more

A Foreign Affair (Billy Wilder Blogathon) June 22, 2014 / The Cinema Dilettante When Aurora and Kellee first announced their jointly hosted Billy Wilder Blogathon, I was eager to sign up. After all, with a career such as his, the hardest part would be narrowing d read more

“I’ve had directors who were marvelous at breaking scenes down and handling people. But when you would string all the pearls together, they wouldn’t make a beautiful necklace. But Billy is the kind of picture-maker who can make a beautiful string of pearls. He makes the kind of mov read more

They were two of film noir’s most unsavory characters – and that’s saying something. Charles Tatum (Kirk Douglas) and Lorraine Mimosa (Jan Sterling) were like two ships that pass in the night – and then turn around and crash into each other. In Billy Wilder’s dark and uncompromising 1951 feature read more

Few directors got a chance to direct “A” pictures with a top-notch cast for their first go around at the helm.  This was particularly true at the height of the studio system in Hollywood. That is unless you’re clever, charming, incredibly talented and anti-establishment.  In other read more

Billy Wilder was an incomparable writer and director – I would say my favorite. I am still constantly surprised when I am reminded he wrote that? His range was so wide, but always so on point. His full range is on display for his birthday this year, courtesy of the blogathon hosted by Aurora at Onc read more

The answer is the melodic strains of the of the song "Senza Fine." Italian composer Gino Paoli wrote "Senza Fine" in 1961. Although a popular success, it was not his biggest hit in his native country. That would be "Sapore Di Sale" or "Il Cielo in una Stanza." While those songs still have their ard read more

This is all about Billy Wilder.  The great. Beginning his screenwriting career in 1929 Germany, Wilder would make a definitive mark on Hollywood from behind the camera, both by way of his pen and later as a premier director.  Films written by or directed by Billy Wilder continue to spark debate and read more

This is all about Billy Wilder. The great. Beginning his screenwriting career in 1929 Germany, Wilder would make a definitive mark on Hollywood from behind the camera, both by way of his his pen and later as a premier director. Films written by or directed by Billy Wilder continue to spark debate read more

This is my contribution to Power-Mad, the Tyrone Power Centennial Blogathon. I’ve avoided spoilers, as the film’s twists are so important to its appeal.  Films where an actor is cast against type always have a fascination, and I’ve sometimes thought this would in itself be a great read more

Spend Valentine’s Day with Billy Wilder By Kate Voss It’s Valentine’s Day once again -- that time of year when, no matter how harsh the weather may be outside, sentimentality abounds. When it comes to classic cinema, Billy Wilder and sentimentality are practically synonymous. read more

There’s a perennial chestnut Hollywood anecdote – one that Orson Welles called the greatest one-liner ever. The story goes that some wag at the funeral of feared and hated movie mogul Harry Cohn dared to ask aloud how it was possible such a huge crowd of mourners would turn out for a ma read more