New year, new list. Here are the Best Movies of 2017. Your time is precious. So is your money. This article will keep you informed about the many 2016. Amores perros is a great film with some really great camera work if I remember rightly. I think There Will Be Blood would be a great choice too. Secret-Beyond-the-Door.jpg?resize=600%2C321' alt='Film Noir Movies Year Of The Fish ' title='Film Noir Movies Year Of The Fish ' />Directed by John Cromwell. With Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead, Ellen Corby, Hope Emerson. A naive nineteen year old widow becomes coarsened and cynical when she is. When you grow up, your heart dies or so they say. Heres the proof from Heathers to Juno, the Guardian and Observers critics pick the 10 best teen movies. One Piece Movie 10: Strong World Free Online here. L. A. Times entertainment news from Hollywood including event coverage, celebrity gossip and deals. View photo galleries, read TV and movie reviews and more. Sunset Boulevard 1. Background. Sunset. Boulevard 1. 95. Hollywood, self deceit, spiritual and spatial emptiness, and the price. The mood of the film is immediately. Beverly Hills. With caustic, bitter wit in a story that blends both. Billy. Wilder realistically exposes with numerous in jokes the corruptive. Hollywood and the studio system. Hollywood legends many years after. The screenplay was based on the story A Can. Beans by Wilder and Brackett this was the last collaborative. Brackett and Wilder who had worked together on many. This classic, tragic film was highly regarded at its. Academy Award nominations and the recipient. Oscars Best Story and Screenplay co authored by Charles. Brackett, D. M. Marshman, Jr., and Billy Wilder, Best Black and White. Art DirectionSet Decoration, and Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy. Picture Franz Waxman. The eight unsuccessful nominations were for. Best Picture, Best Actor William Holden, Best Actress Gloria Swanson. Judy Holliday for Born Yesterday, Best Supporting. Actor Erich von Stroheim, Best Supporting Actress Nancy Olson. Best Director, Best BW Cinematography John Seitz, and Best Film. Editing. The major starring role in the film, an inspired casting. Gloria Swanson Mae. West was also a possible choice for the role, who autobiographically portrayed. Norma Desmond a deluded, tragic, ambitious actress whose career. Note Her name was a combination. Hollywood figures comedy star Mabel Normand. William Desmond Taylor Normands lover. There was an intensive investigation but. The other starring role belonged to a modern day, B movie. William Holden, although Montgomery Clift. He recounted how he struggled to produce screenplays. After being showered with bribes clothes, money, flattery and other. This film was a first, since it mixed fiction with. Other Hollywood legends, stars, figures. Paramount Studios itselfsilent screen director Erich von Stroheim as the. Greed 1. 92. 4famous Hollywood director Cecil B. De. Mille playing. Samson and Delilah 1. Mabel Normand a comedienne for Mack Sennett notice. Normas namecolumnist Hedda Hopper in a bit partaging silent era stars as themselves, portraying. Normas waxworks card playing friends Buster Keaton, Swedish born. Anna Q. Nilsson, and H. B. Warner. Sunset Boulevard was adapted into a musical. Andrew Lloyd Webber, and first opened. London with Patti Lu. Pone in the lead role. In late 1. 99. 3, Glenn. Close portrayed Norma Desmond in the debut Los Angeles not Broadway. US. Close also opened the Broadway production. November, 1. 99. 4, and the show received seven Tony Awards in 1. The Story. The film opens with a pan down to a street curbgutter. Hollywood with dead leaves. The curb is stenciled with SUNSET. BLVD. the image is an appropriate metaphor for the tawdry expos to. The camera pulls back across the cracked, defaced asphalt. In the original screenplay, the film opened in a. Los Angeles morgue where the protagonists corpse delivered a lively. After a showing to East Coast preview audiences, it was scrapped. A voice over narration is read cynically and crisply. The first scene shows motorcycle. Beverly Hills where they find a dead body floating face. Detectives try to fish him out of the water Yes, this is Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California. Its about five oclock in the morning. Thats the Homicide Squad. A murder has been. Youll read about it in the late editions, Im sure. Youll. get it over your radio and see it on television because an old time. But before you hear it all. Hollywood columnists. If so, youve come to the right party. You see, the. body of a young man was found floating in the pool of her mansion. Nobody important. Just a movie writer with a couple of B pictures to his. The poor dope He always wanted a pool. Well, in the end. Note The mansion, formerly belonging to J. Paul Getty, was on Wilshire Blvd. Irving Blvd. Today, a Getty. Oil office building stands on the site. Five years later, the same. Getty mansion was used for one. Rebel Without a Cause. The narrators voice sounds amused he promises to. Joe Gillis William Holden and how he ended up face. The same flashback plot device, told by a dead man in voice over. American Beauty 1. As the scene dissolves. Lets go back about. The story flashes back to six months earlier, when. Joe, a struggling, down and out, depressed, Midwestern hack screenwriter. I seemed to have. Working. in his one room apartment house the Alto Nido apartments above. Franklin and Ivar, he is interrupted at his typewriter by the doors. Plymouth convertible, California license 4. R 1. 16. Wearing only his bathrobe, he lies to the finance boys and tells. Rudys Shoe Shine Parlor. They threaten to return. In voice over, he narrates his predicament Well, I needed about two hundred and ninety dollars. I needed it real quick, or Id lose my car. It wasnt in Palm. Springs and it wasnt in the garage. I was way ahead of the finance. I knew theyd be coming around and I wasnt taking any. With his car keys with a miniature rabbits foot attached. Joe ventures out to Paramount Pictures Studios to sell. Bases. Loaded to a callous, big shot smart producer named. Sheldrake Fred Clark. Not surprisingly, Sheldrake was the name. Wilders The Apartment 1. While Joe describes his idea and promotes Alan Ladd for the lead. Sheldrakes secretary appears with a glass of milk and a bottle. Joes treatment of the screenplay is criticized by. Paramount script reader Betty Schaefer Nancy Olson. She is startled. to discover that her evaluation has been overheard by the screenwriter. I wish I could crawl in a hole and pull it in after. She explains, I just think that pictures should say. One reason she rejected the script was because. The devastated. writer replies That was last year. This year, Im trying to. Joe leaves Sheldrakes office after he is turned down. Schwabs. Pharmacy a re created interior of Schwabs Drug Store where young. Lana Turner was purportedly discovered, his headquarters. Kaffee klatsch, and waiting room. Waiting. waiting for the gravy train. He makes general SOS phone calls. As he turns onto Sunset Boulevard, his muses that his prospects add. Apparently, I just didnt have what it. He decides to wrap up the whole Hollywood deal and go home with. Dayton, Ohio returning to a 3. Dayton Evening Post if it was still open. As he is driving along, he suddenly spots the repossession. When. his left front tire suffers a blowout, he pulls into a driveway and. Sunset. Boulevard property with a mansion, in an exclusive residential section. Hollywood stars live If ever there was. He parks his car next to an enormous foreign built automobile it must have. It had a 1. 93. 2 license. I figured. thats when the owners had moved out. And I also figured I couldnt. The idea was to get to Artie Greens and stay there until I could. Ohio. Once back in Dayton, Id drop the credit. At first as he climbs the stone staircase, he believes. Hollywoods own decaying state, and is deserted. He describes the massive, grotesquely. Italianate home. He compares it to Miss Havishim in. Dickens novel Great Expectations It was a great big white elephant of a place, the. A neglected house. This one had it in spades. It was like that. Great Expectations, that Miss Havisham in her. In Dickens book and in David Leans 1. Pip was summoned to the gothic mansion of a rich local woman. Miss Havisham, still in her wedding dress, occupying. Norma Desmond. the solitary and deranged owner of the mansion, was also impotently. She ultimately retaliated and took it out on her world. The atmospheric look of the mansion and the cinematography was. Leans Great Expectations 1. Likewise. the decrepit mansion and demented character of Baby Jane Hudson. Bette Davis wearing a doll costume and living in the past in Whatever. Happened to Baby Jane As he considers his options, knowing that he cant. 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