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Hollywood is still shrinking long after Billy Wilder's searing industry noir Sunset Boulevard took it to task.
Whenever I'm stuck in a screenplay or even just having a terrible day, I like to put on a Billy Wilder movie. The guy just knew how to captivate an audience and how to tell a story.
For Billy Wilder, one of the most influential filmmakers in Hollywood history, the priorities were always story and character. If the premise of a movie, no matter the genre, is fully supported by ...
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Billy Wilder classic ‘Witness for the Prosecution’. Graeme Ross lists the 20 of the legendary Hollywood director’s must-see films ...
Frears is also reuniting with Thomas after working together on the road movie “The Hit” in 1984. Co-producers on “Billy Wilder and Me” are Reinhard Brundig and Christos V. Konstantakopoulos.
Billy Wilder, 95, the maverick director-writer-producer who turned his trenchant scripts into some of the most memorable of all Hollywood films, died Wednesday at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Billy Wilder, the director, writer and producer of both antic farce and serious drama who was nominated for 21 Academy Awards and won six, has died. He was 95.
When Wilder, still cagey at 95, died in Beverly Hills of pneumonia on March 27, the era of the great above-the-title studio directors finally came to a close. There is, simply, no one around to ...
From the beginnings of mainstream film, men have dressed up at women to get laughs. In 1959, when Billy Wilder’s comedy ...