America's Mortal Goddess

AFS Essential Cinema enchants with Marilyn Monroe

"...(Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), Otto Preminger (River of No Return), Billy Wilder (Some Like It Hot), and even Laurence Olivier,..."

May 31, 2013 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

Such Great Heights

The agony and ecstasy of Powell and Pressburger pictures

"...Hitler ran Ufa's leading talents out of town – Billy Wilder, Robert Siodmak, Fritz Lang, et al. Meanwhile, the..."

June 11, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Sherlock Holmes

This movie reinvents the chilly, brainiac sleuth as a tortured genius and occasional backroom brawler, and Robert Downey Jr. almost makes the character work.

"...young Robert Duvall as Dr. Watson), Robert Stephens (in Billy Wilder's vaguely homoerotic The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes),..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Over Her Dead Body

In this DOA romantic comedy, Eva Longoria Parker plays a ghost who haunts her former fiancé-to-be when it's time for him to move on.

"...Hayek and Regina King. Just think of the dialogue Billy Wilder or the Coen brothers could have written. Instead..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Los Angeles, I'm Yours

Thom Andersen sets the story straight on the city he loves in 'Los Angeles Plays Itself'

"..."character" in the movies, something he traces back to Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity (1944) and the adaptations of other..."

Nov. 9, 2007 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The Valet

This flat French farce has a couple of likable characters, one or two decent jokes, and a lot of missed opportunities.

"...his bread and butter. In the hands of say, Billy Wilder or Preston Sturges, these ingredients make for divine..."

May 18, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Ball of Fire

"...stick around to help them define "slang." Written by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett. One of the strangest riffs..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Movie Review by Louis Black

The Benda Mask

Untold secrets of Jean Arthur

"...her screaming off-screen, save for her final two films, Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair (1948) and Shane (1953)...."

Oct. 22, 2004 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Hot Fun in the Summertime

Citywide Summer Film Series

"...6/16: Double Indemnity (D: Billy Wilder, 1944)..."

May 23, 2003 Screens Feature

Sabrina

"...Ormond and Harrison Ford. Pollack’s remake of the 1954 Billy Wilder romance movie poses no threat to the original..."

May 7, 2002 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Big Trouble

"...certain major Western religious figure. With the shade of Billy Wilder now watching over my shoulder, I don't want..."

April 12, 2002 Movie Review by Russell Smith

My Best Friend's Wedding

"...an irresolute tone that suggests a team-writing effort by Billy Wilder, Tracey Ullman, and Nora Ephron -- the responsible..."

June 20, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Liar Liar

"...or Cary Grant, or that Liar Liar will dim Billy Wilder's star in the comedy firmament. This film is..."

March 21, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Cinema du Fromage

Directors Dumber Than Ed Wood, Jr.!

"...Did you know that while Billy Wilder was walking away with Oscars for Sunset Blvd.,..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Scanlines

"...for their help in providing videos and laser discs.) Billy Bob Thorton wrote, directed and starred in Sling Blade...."

July 18, 1997 Screens Feature

Night Owls

This love triangle winks at The Apartment

"...(Die Hard, Predator) alongside character connoisseurs Richard Linklater and Billy Wilder. "[McTiernan] is one of my heroes, and his..."

March 13, 2015 Screens Feature by Darcie Robert

A Few Faves From the Paramount Summer Classic Film Series

Immortal gems of the cinema help us define a classic

"...You probably know the premise by now: Dark-humored Harry (Billy Crystal) meets bright-eyed Sally (Meg Ryan), and after a..."

May 24, 2019 Screens Feature by The Screens Staff

New Year, Old Films

Mid-20th-century must-sees: Part I

"...stick around to help them define "slang." Written by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett. One of the strangest riffs..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Screens Feature by Louis Black

More McCanlies, Texas

The full interview with the director of 'Secondhand Lions'

"...green-lit by three different studios called Thai Pirates that Billy Peterson was attached to at one point, Michael Douglas..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Shortcuts

"...Andrew Shue, the heartthrob actor who plays boy- next-door-with-a-vengeance Billy Campbell on Melrose Place taught high school math to..."

Nov. 1, 1996 Screens Column

Austin Filmmaker Brings Her Rap Drama Back Home

Katherine Propper finds family in Lost Soulz at Sound Unseen Film + Music Festival

"...works include short documentaries of Hollywood's great stylists, like Billy Wilder and Gone With the Wind cinematographer Ernest Haller...."

Dec. 1, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

July Is Crime Month: The Crime Blotter, Week 2

A curated guide to unlawful activities around town July 8-14

"...Noir Canon: Double Indemnity Billy Wilder cranks up the heat in his adaptation of..."

July 7, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

A Life Reconstructed in Noir Classic The Killers

A death in New Jersey

"...Lund's absence. Unlike Walter Neff, the dying lead of Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity (set for the Canon in July)..."

June 21, 2019 Screens Feature by Julian DeBerry

Holiday Viewing: Remember the Night

The key to a merry Christmas is a shoplifter in the house

"...years before Stanwyck and MacMurray torched the screen in Billy Wilder's here's-how-you-do-noir Double Indemnity, the two did a slow-burn..."

Dec. 18, 2017 Screens Post by Robert Faires

Holiday Viewing: The Shop Around the Corner

The essential Jimmy Stewart Christmas movie (no, not that one)

"...early American cinema – including Samson Raphaelson, Ben Hecht, Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett – Lubitsch applied his patented..."

Dec. 1, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Ernie Kovacs

Breaking the fourth wall with the legendary comedian

"...into a telephone pole after leaving a party at Billy Wilder's Hollywood home. The coroner (and one lucky Los..."

May 12, 2017 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Saul Bass Like You've Never Seen Him Before

Alamo hosts rare screening of title designer's directorial work

"...of great directors throughout his career, like Stanley Kubrick, Billy Wilder and of course Alfred Hitchcock – doing title..."

Nov. 30, 2012 Screens Post by Eli Black

Spinning The Color Wheel

Bob Byington supplies the Q's, Alex Ross Perry the A's

"...sometime that I adapted from probably Howard Hawks or Billy Wilder wherein I would look at a scene that..."

July 27, 2012 Screens Post by Robert Byington

Can Tim League Win With 'Irma La Douce'?

Alamo experiments with theatrical on demand for Tura Satana

"...for her speaking part debut as Suzette Wong in Billy Wilder's Irma La Douce. He's promising a night of..."

July 3, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

No Man of Her Own

New on DVD: 'No Man of Her Own'

"...films of such Paramount colleagues as Ernst Lubitsch and Billy Wilder. In his essential compendium of directors, The American..."

April 13, 2012 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

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