Billy Wilder
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English
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"Before Billy Wilder (1906-2002) left Europe for the United States in 1934 and became a filmmaker, he worked as a newspaper reporter, first in Vienna and then in Weimar Berlin. This book, edited and introduced by Noah Isenberg and translated by Shelley Frisch, collects about 65 articles Wilder published in Austrian and German newspapers in the 1920s. The collection includes reported pieces on urban life, from a first-person account of Wilder's stint...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Illustrated with film clips, rare photographs and artwork, Billy Wilder Speaks is a lively lesson in filmmaking, from one of its undisputed masters. In a series of filmed interviews conducted by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff (The Tin Drum), acclaimed writer/director WIlder (Sunset Blvd. , Some Like It Hot) recounts the achievements and pitfalls of his 60-year career. As one might expect from the maker of The Apartment, Double...
3) Stalag 17
Pub. Date
1953.
Language
English
Description
When two escaping American World War II prisoners are killed, the German P.O.W. camp barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.
4) Stalag 17
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English
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Two worthy **Academy Award** nominees from 1950's *Sunset Boulevard* - actor William Holden and director Billy Wilder - re-teamed three years later for the gripping World War II drama, STALAG 17. The result was another Best Director nomination for Wilder (his fourth), and the elusive Best Actor Oscar for Holden. Holden portrays the jaded, scheming Sergeant J.J. Sefton, a prisoner at the notorious German prison camp, who spends his days dreaming up...
6) Sabrina
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English
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Humphrey Bogart and William Holden play the mega-rich Larrabee brothers of Long Island. Bogie's all work, Holden's all playboy. But when Sabrina (Audrey Hepburn), daughter of the family's chauffeur, returns from Paris, the stage is set for some family fireworks. Nominated for six **Academy Awards**. Winner of the Best Screenplay Award at the **Golden Globes.** *"It's a Cinderella story that gets turned on its heard, a satire about breaking down class...
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English
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Gloria Swanson, as Norma Desmond, an aging silent-film queen, and William Holden, as the struggling young screenwriter 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 powerful orchestration of this bizarre tale is a true cinematic classic. From the unforgettable opening sequence - a body found floating in a decayed mansion's...
Series
Criterion collection volume 396
Language
English
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A cave collapse in New Mexico traps a man, and all eyes turn toward the tragedy ... including those of Charles "Chuck" Tatum (Kirk Douglas), a washed-up newspaper reporter who sees the incident as a ticket back to his former days at the top of the journalism heap. As the media circus begins to swirl around the trapped man's plight, Tatum takes command of the situation, embellishing the unfolding drama and prolonging the rescue effort ... while feeding...
Series
Criterion collection volume 950
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English
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Two unemployed musicians accidentally witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and flee to Miami disguised as female musicians in an all-girl band.
11) The front page
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The story finds hard-nosed editor Walter Burns trying every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter Hildy Johnson from leaving the newspaper business to get married.
12) Double indemnity
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Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Special edition.
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English
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Walter Neff is a smooth talking insurance salesman who meets the very attractive Phyllis Dietrichson when he calls to renew her husband's automobile policy. The couple are immediately drawn to each other and have an affair. They scheme together to murder Phyllis' husband for life insurance money with a double indemnity clause. Unfortunately, all does not go as planned. Barton Keyes is the wily insurance investigator who must sort things out.
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
A man is accused of murdering his wealthy woman friend in order to secure his inheritance. The defendant's mysterious wife stuns the courtroom by giving damaging testimony against her husband. The web of intrigue is finally unwoven in a shocking, chilling conclusion.
15) Some like it hot
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Language
English
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Two musicians disguise themselves as women and join an all-female band in order to evade the Mafia, since they witnessed the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
17) The apartment
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Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
"C.C. "Bud" Baxter knows the way to success in business-- it's through the door of his apartment. By providing a perfect hideaway for philandering bosses, the ambitious young employee reaps a series of undeserved promotions. But when Bud lends the key to big boss J.D. Sheldrake, he not only advances his career, but his own love life as well. For Sheldrake's mistress is the lovely Fran Kubelik, elevator girl and angel of Bud's dreams. Convinced that...
19) Irma la Douce
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Widescreen [edition].
Language
English
Description
Comedy about a young Parisian policeman and his romance with a prostitute.
20) Stalag 17
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English
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In a German prison-of-war camp in World War II packed with none but American sergeants, Sgt. J.J. Sefton is the ultimate conniver, hustler and privilege-seeker. It becomes apparent to his fellow prisoners that there must be a spy for the Germans in their midst and the most obvious candidate would be Sefton--but is he? And if he is not, then who is?
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