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Why writers direct (By Ken Levine)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:24:00 GMT

Billy Wilder (pictured above), a superb writer/director was once asked if he thought a director should be able to write. His answer was: “No, he should be able to read.” The question always arises:...

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Happy Birthday, Billy (The Greenbelt)

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:03:00 GMT

Billy Wilder, born today in Sucha (now Poland, then Austria) in 1906 (but Billy was his given name, after Buffalo Bill, of all people). He gave us the incomparable Some Like It Hot ... which alone would have been enough. But of course it isn't alone - there are also S abrina, Stalag 17, Lost Weekend, Witness for the Prosecution, Sunset Boulevard ... Thanks! Fresh from The Greenbelt...

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You Don’t Mess with the Shaolin (Metroblogging Los Angeles)

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:10:57 GMT

Having a hard time deciding whether to go see The Love Guru or Get Smart? Part of the Los Angeles Film Festival, Shaw Sensation is an archival program of ’70s and ’80s kung fu films from Hong Kong’s esteemed Shaw Brothers film studios, with screenings taking place at the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum. [...]

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BULLETS, BROADS, BLACKMAIL & BOMBS > > Black Lizard in My Backyard (Bookgasm)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:28:18 GMT

... the wagon and who wrote some movie called THE BOULEVARD. (I’m guessing this person was based on Billy Wilder.) It’s such a fast little read, you wish Sinclair had a much larger output, but from what I’ve discovered, he only wrote one other book. THE DAMNED DON’T DIE by Jim Nisbet — I’ll start off this review real simple: Someone reissue this 1981 book now . This truly was a find like...

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Walter Mirisch, his memoir and memories (LA Times)

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:43:29 GMT

... book is filled with candid and often funny reminiscences of work with such directors as Billy Wilder, John Sturges, George Roy Hill, Blake Edwards, Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins and Norman Jewison, and actors including Steve McQueen, Jack Lemmon, Peter Sellers and Yul Brynner. Mirisch also discusses involvement in the development of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences."We...

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A Martini Full of Arsenic (The Rap Sheet)

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:04:00 GMT

... show roams the same languorous, sexy, tortured, morally complex terrain as Sweet Smell of Success, Billy Wilder’s The Apartment, and Richard Yates’ tormented 1950s novel of suburban dread, (about to make its way to the silver screen this year).While not explicitly a crime or mystery show, it is easy to see Mad Men’s noir underpinnings, such as in the Woolrichian past of haunted ad...

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“..War, Inc: Cusack’s Savage Satire Strikes a Chord with Soldiers and Their Families..” (whoar.co.nz)

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:54:55 GMT

... But when someone does and succeeds at it — think Stanley Kubrick, Paddy Chayefsky, Joseph Heller, Billy Wilder — the effect is indelible.Lewis Lapham identified the satirist’s project as.... “the crime of arson..meaning to set a torch of words to the hospitality tents of pompous and self-righteous cant..”(recommended-read..)go to source/story>>This entry was posted on Saturday, June...

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The Major and the Minor (DVD Times)

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:05:16 GMT

DVD Video Review: Thank heaven for little girls. Billy Wilder avoids scandal with his Hollywood directorial debut starring Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland.

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Six movies that rocked Hurd's world (Variety.com)

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:36:53 GMT

... 1984. Sam Spiegel, who produced "Bridge," is one of my producing idols. The Apartment(1960)I met Billy Wilder not long before his death, and I was able to tell him in person how much I admired and respected his body of work. A triple threat as a producer, writer and director, Wilder was able to jump nimbly from genre to genre, and he directed many of my favorite films ("Some...

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New DVDs 6-10-2008 (DaveKehr.com)

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:57:42 GMT

... a piercing 1962 social satire that might be the work of a wiser, warmer, less self-conscious Billy Wilder. “Il Sorpasso” isn’t available in the US, though there is a good French disc that pairs it, under its French title, “Le Fanfaron,” with another important Risi, “I Mostri” (1963).

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Midnight (DVD Times)

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:00:00 GMT

DVD Video Review: The best film Billy Wilder co-wrote without also directing and more proof that 1939 was a very good year for Hollywood.

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Crowe’s Next to Pair Ben Stiller with Yet Another Blonde [Casting Couch] (Film School Rejects)

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:58:47 GMT

... is a good Cameron Crowe movie again, not just an acceptable date movie. Crowe is our generation’s Billy Wilder, capable of achieving blistering comedy and subtle poignancy. He proved with Elizabethtown that he scraped the bottom of his auto-biographical barrel, though. Hopefully we’ll have a title and description to work with soon, but the thought of another Cameron Crowe movie at...

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Movies with A View Schedule Announced (Brooklyn Heights Blog)

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:32:37 GMT

... Find out in this 2005 Academy Award winner for Best Animated Feature. July 31 Ace In The Hole Billy Wilder’s cynical classic envisions a world where tragedy makes for media gold and once-respected journalists change into self-serving desperados…a full half-century before blogging and TMZ. Kirk Douglas stars in this New Mexican noir. August 7 Pleasantville Back to the past imperfect....

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Easy Living (DVD Times)

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:47:16 GMT

... to himself over that somewhere in the great beyond. Like his fellow Paramount screenwriter Billy Wilder, Preston Sturges insisted on directing his own scripts as a result of disagreements with Leisen. Both writers were displeased with Leisen's interpretation of their screenplays. Perhaps because of this, Leisen hasn't generally been regarded too highly in the pantheon of comedy directors...

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M Night Shyamalan - tortured genius? (The blog Film)

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:12:24 GMT

... In fact it's not a recent phenomenon: even visible, dependable "brands" like Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges all had their commercial setbacks.Audiences seem to recognise the industrialised process of Hollywood filmmaking far more clearly than critics, who are hung up on notions of authorship. Ultimately, what sells a movie, or doesn't, is the movie itself; its...

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A Superior Income From an Inferior Champagne (Mr. Peel's Sardine Liqueur)

Sat, 31 May 2008 16:46:00 GMT

I’d rather not get caught up in the whole debate about Mitchell Leisen and he caused the likes of Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges to want to direct because of whatever he did to their scripts. In all honesty, part of me wants to say, “You’re really going to dispute any opinion that Wilder or Sturges ever had'” But then somebody might bring up BUDDY BUDDY or THE BEAUTIFUL BLONDE...

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Singles (Pajiba)

Thu, 29 May 2008 19:30:00 GMT

Pajiba Blockbusters Touch Me I'm Dick Singles / Dustin Rowles I cannot imagine -- on a site where the Coen brothers, Wes Anderson, geek culture, "Arrested Development," and Joss Whedon reign supreme -- that this admission could possibly go over well, but my two favorite directors of all time, unabashedly, unashamedly, and unapologetically, are Billy Wilder and Cameron Crowe. And while...

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R.I.P. Sydney Pollack (Lylee's Blog)

Wed, 28 May 2008 08:36:00 GMT

... impress me (though "Sabrina" is a favorite of my father, who prefers it - sacrilege! - to the Billy Wilder/Audrey Hepburn original). Nonetheless, even his weaker ventures were clearly the work of an old-school craftsman of considerable taste and intelligence, qualities reflected as much in Pollack's record as a producer ("The Fabulous Baker Boys," "Sense and Sensibility," "The Quiet...

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Sydney Pollack's 10 Best-Reviewed Movies (And Five Great Performances) (Rotten Tomatoes)

Tue, 27 May 2008 13:03:00 GMT

... in front of the camera. 10. Sabrina (1995)Tomatometer: 62% Pollack took on the legacy of Billy Wilder in updating the romantic comedy Sabrina, about a beautiful young woman (Julia Ormond) caught between a charming playboy (Greg Kinnear) and his no-nonsense brother (Harrison Ford). While comparisons to the original abound -- along with its cast of Golden Hollywood legends Humphrey...

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Sydney Pollack - 1934-2008 (Bark Bark Woof Woof)

Tue, 27 May 2008 07:13:00 GMT

... the father of Patrick Dempsey's character in “Made of Honor.” He was one of the greats, along with Billy Wilder, George Cukor, and John Ford, who really knew what film could do, and also respected the script and the actors. Here's his listing from IMDb .

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