Something Wilder

AFS Essential Cinema: Censors, Drop Your Scissors! Billy Wilder's Later Comedies

"...he learned that I had not seen two of Billy Wilder's late-period movies, Avanti! and Fedora. The former Austin..."

Aug. 28, 2009 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hart's War

"...this before. There are moments here that recall both Billy Wilder's Stalag 17 and John Sturges' The Great Escape,..."

Feb. 15, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son

Martin Lawrence revisits his FBI undercover alter-ego, Big Momma.

"...scribe Matthew Vogel) is just a cheap rip on Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot...."

Feb. 25, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Kiss Me, Stupid

"...Directed by: Billy Wilder. Starring: Kim Novak, Dean Martin, Felicia Farr, Cliff..."

July 8, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ace in the Hole

"...Directed by: Billy Wilder. Starring: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Bob Arthur and..."

July 13, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Connie and Carla

Witnessing a mob hit can be a real drag.

"...It takes a certain ballsiness to remake (however loosely) Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond’s Some Like It Hot, a..."

April 23, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Sunset Boulevard

Wilder’s cynical edge is finely honed in this darkly amusing satire of the Dream Factory.

"...Directed by: Billy Wilder. Starring: Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Erich Von Stroheim,..."

July 5, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Billy Wilder, In Memoriam

Last week saw the passing of Billy Wilder: a caustic wit, a clear-eyed romantic, a biting social observer, a legend of Hollywood's Golden Age.

"...Billy Wilder, In Memoriam They say it comes in threes...."

April 5, 2002 Screens Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lubitsch's Last Hurrah

New AFS Essential Cinema series covers the 'Touch' from pre-war to 'Cluny Brown'

"...but largely failed. Three years before his death, writer/director/producer Billy Wilder (1906-2002) told Cameron Crowe:..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

In the Mood for a MomRomCom?

The Alamo Drafthouse is serving up It Happened One Night and Sabrina for Mother's Day

"...Billy Wilder was a short, caustic Jewish guy from Galicia..."

May 11, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

The Apartment

Lemmon plays a company man who tries to climb the corporate ladder by loaning out his bachelor pad to illicitly trysting higher-ups. As usual, office politics makes for some strange bedfellows in this comedy.

"...Directed by: Billy Wilder. Starring: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray..."

July 20, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Some Like It Hot

"...Directed by: Billy Wilder. Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George..."

Dec. 21, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Stalag 17

"...Directed by: Billy Wilder. Starring: William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Robert..."

June 27, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Cinema of Dual Citizens

In the upcoming series Driven into Paradise: European Émigré Directors 1933-1950, the Austin Film Society will be screening (at the Alamo Drafthouse) six classic films reflecting the ethical sensibilities and aesthetic innovations of these exiled masters.

"...refuge in Hollywood, directors like Fritz Lang, Robert Siodmak, Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger, Max Ophüls, John Brahm, and others..."

April 18, 2003 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

New in Print

Dallas author Sam Staggs writes with zeal and authority in his exposé of Billy Wilder's classic camp 'Sunset Boulevard.'

"...Close-Up on Sunset Boulevard: Billy Wilder, Norma Desmond, and the Dark Hollywood Dream by..."

May 3, 2002 Screens Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

BBC Names Top 100 Comedies of All Time

Film critics poll picks Some Like It Hot for top slot

"...lists of the best films of all time, full-stop: Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot, which put Jack Lemmon..."

Aug. 22, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Oh in Ohio

This story of an uptight corporate go-getter (Posey), her sad-sack high school science teacher husband (Rudd), and her search for her first orgasm is intended to invoke rolling laughter but instead results in repeated sighs.

"...Directed by: Billy Kent. Starring: Parker Posey, Paul Rudd, Mischa Barton, Danny..."

Aug. 18, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

One, Two, Three

"...Directed by: Billy Wilder. Starring: Pamela Tiffin, Horst Buchholz, Arlene Francis and..."

June 3, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Scanlines

Running Brave

"...sort of -- the early-Eighties biopic of Olympic champion Billy Mills, Running Brave, deserves revisiting, if for no other..."

Feb. 21, 1997 Screens Feature

Conversations With Wilder

"...Conversations With Wilderby Cameron Crowe..."

March 10, 2000 Books Review by Raoul Hernandez

That Old Revival Spirit

Testifying About Movies

"...Tony Randall, Burt Reynolds, Lou Jacobi, John Carradine, Gene Wilder. (R)..."

June 13, 1997 Screens Feature

Book Review: The Body Double

Emily Beyda's debut novel is ready for its close-up

"...Billy Wilder's 1954 vivisection of Hollywood, with its epic, all-stops-pulled-out..."

March 6, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

When It Felt True

The Austin Chronicle's Raoul Hernandez curates an AFS Essential Cinema series on the 'enigma' of William Wyler

"...not this particular Director's Drama. Leave the comedies to Billy Wilder...."

Oct. 15, 2010 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Being Bad Never Looked So Good

Austin Public Library tackles Tough Guys and Feisty Femmes in a new film series. And it's free!

"...far more avuncular and less keen for killing in Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity. That's the same Billy Wilder who..."

Jan. 9, 2009 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Apartment: Collector's Edition

What kind of tender tyrant hinges a love story on a suicide attempt?

"...direction and cinematography, and a just-right visual kickoff to Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond's story of how one man..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Screens Review by Kimberley Jones

Paramount Summer Classic Film Series

"...Some Like It Hot (D: Billy Wilder, 1959): Thu, 6/13, 9:20pm; Sat, 6/14, 7:30pm..."

May 31, 2002 Screens Feature

Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia, Strangers on a Train

"...in providing videos, laser discs, and DVDs.)DOUBLE INDEMNITY D: Billy Wilder (1944); with Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G...."

June 23, 2000 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

Eat, Drink, Laugh, and Learn With Kate MacMurray

With Kate MacMurray

"...and received five, including Best Picture and Best Director (Billy Wilder). The Apartment was the second film directed by..."

March 30, 2007 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Ace in the Hole

"...Ace in the Hole, and you can almost hear Billy Wilder yukking it up softly off-camera. That the peerless..."

July 20, 2007 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Subverting the Code

New AFS series showcases Barbara Stanwyck at her most sly and seductive

"...Doe playmate. Admittedly cruder than Sturges' The Lady Eve, Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett's script tap-danced right up to..."

Aug. 1, 2014 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

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