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Sunset Boulevard
1950 -
Not Rated
Release Date: 11/11/2008
Features:
DVD Features:
2-Disc Set
Region 1
NTSC
Keep Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital Mono - English
Dubbed - French, Spanish
Subtitled - English - Optional
Disc 1: Feature Film
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary: Ed Sikov - Author of "On SUNSET BOULEVARD: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder"
Disc 2:
Additional Release Material:
Trailers: Theatrical Trailer
Featurette:
1. SUNSET BOULEVARD: The Beginning
2. The NOIR Side of SUNSET BOULEVARD by Joseph Wambaugh
3. SUNSET BOULEVARD Becomes a Classic
4. Two Sides of Ms. Swanson
5. Stories of SUNSET BOULEVARD
6. Mad About a Boy: A Portrait of William Holden
7. Recording SUNSET BOULEVARD
8. The City of SUNSET BOULEVARD
9. Franz Waxman and the Music of SUNSET BOULEVARD
10. Behind the Gates: The Lot
11. Paramount in the '50s - Retrospective Featurette
12. Edith Head - The Paramount Years Featurette
Text/Photo Galleries:
Hollywood Location Map
Morgue Prologue Script Pages
Time:
110
mins.
J&R Item # 1020484_9
UPC # 097361389844
Label: Paramount Home Entertainment
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Billy Wilder's masterpiece SUNSET BOULEVARD, a corrosive black comedy that remains the most memorable assault on the emptiness and vanity of the movie business, stars William Holden as young, down-and-out screenwriter Joe Gillis. Narrated in flashbacks by the now-deceased scribe, the film unwinds the series of events that left him lying face down in a pool. Unable to sell his most recent chef-d'oeuvre, and in hock up to his eyeballs, Joe stashes his car in the driveway of what appears to be an abandoned mansion on Sunset Boulevard while trying to elude some persistent repo men. Closer inspection reveals the decrepit property to be inhabited by grandiose former silent movie goddess Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), and her zombie-like manservant Max (Erich von Stroheim). Upon hearing that he's a writer, the lonely but still wealthy woman offers to pay him generously to stay at the house and work on her "comeback" script on the life of Salome. Although spooked by the people and the surroundings, in desperate straits, Joe takes the job, little suspecting the madness of the netherworld he's entered. Wilder's merciless portrait of the dangers of a profession that trades in fantasy cagily couples the cynical amorality of the never-was with the near-psychotic narcissism of the has-been to reveal the vacuity of wealth and the transience of fame.
Cast:
"...Gloria Swanson gives her greatest performance....The movie cuts close to the bone....SUNSET BOULEVARD remains the best drama ever made about the movies..."
-- Roger Ebert
, (Chicago Sun-Times)
"...A mordant masterpiece about two victims of self-deception who destroy each other and themselves....The movie is unimprovable..." -- Mark Harris , (Entertainment Weekly) "These days, it seems like 1950's best movie." -- Peter Johnson , (USA Today)
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