Billy Wilder

Calista Frangopoulou è una donna sposata di cinquantasette anni, con due figlie gemelle in procinto di lasciare casa. Ariane andrà a studiare al Conservatorio di Sydney e Francesca è stata ammessa per l'anno successivo all'Università di Oxford. Dopo aver lasciato Ariane all'aeroporto, Calista ricorda quando, nel 1976, lei stessa era stata in America per tre settimane e l'incontro casuale che le aveva segnato l'esistenza: una sera a Los Angeles, con la sua amica Gill, si era ritrovata a tavola con Billy Wilder, senza sapere chi fosse. Un'occasione fortuita che un anno dopo l'aveva portata a lavorare come interprete dal greco sul set del penultimo film del grande regista, Fedora, che avrebbe determinato la sua scelta di diventare compositrice di colonne sonore e che, molti anni dopo, le avrebbe permesso di maturare una decisione importante con la leggerezza del finale di un film di Billy Wilder..

Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard ranks among the most scathing satires of Hollywood and the cruel fickleness of movie fandom. Hotly pursued by repo men, impoverished, indebted "boy wonder" screenwriter Joe Gillis ducks into the garage of an apparently abandoned Sunset Boulevard mansion. The owner, imperious silent star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) inveigles him into helping her with a comeback script that she's been working on for years. Soon the cynical and opportunistic Joe becomes Norma's kept man. More melodramatic than funny, the screenplay by Wilder and Charles Brackett began life as a comedy about a has-been silent movie actress and the ambitious screenwriter who leeches off her.

Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell), a nerdy, faithful, middle-aged publishing executive with an overactive imagination and a mid-life crisis, whose wife Helen (Evelyn Keyes) and son Ricky (Butch Bernard) are summering in Maine. When he returns home with the kayak paddle Ricky accidentally left behind, he meets a woman (Marilyn Monroe), a…

Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, an aging silent film queen, and William Holden as the struggling writer who is held in thrall by her madness, created two of the screen's most memorable characters in Sunset Boulevard. Winner of three Academy Awards., director Billy Wilder's orchestration of the bizarre tale is a true cinematic classic. From the unforgettable opening sequence through the inevitable unfolding of tragic destiny, the film is the definitive statement on the dark and desperate side of Hollywood. Erich von Stroheim as Desmond's discoverer, ex-husband and butler, and Nancy Olson as the bright spot in unrelenting ominousness, are equally celebrated for their masterful performances.

One of the most justly celebrated "problem films" of the 1940s. Adapted from Charles Jackson's novel, an alcoholic goes on a binge, and his girlfriend tries to salvage him. Directed by Billy Wilder. With Ray Milland, Phillip Terry and Jane Wyman.

Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell) is a nerdy, faithful, middle-aged publishing executive with an overactive imagination and a mid-life crisis, whose wife Helen (Evelyn Keyes) and son Ricky (Butch Bernard) are summering in Maine. When he returns home with the kayak paddle Ricky accidentally left behind, he meets a woman (Marilyn Monroe), a commercial actress…