Billy Wilder\'s Sunset Boulevard , a classic film noir and also a damning dissection of the Hollywood Dream factory, evokes the glamour and ruin of the stars who subsist on that dream.
Sam Staggs\'s Close-.
One of the most critically admired films of the twentieth century, Sunset Boulevard is also famous as silent star Gloria Swanson\'s comeback picture.
It\'s also one long in-joke about the movie industry and those who made it great-and who were, in turn, destroyed by it.
Billy Wilder\'s Sunset Boulevard , a classic film noir and also a damning dissection of the Hollywood Dream factory, evokes the glamour and ruin of the stars who subsist on that dream