Sunset Boulevard - classic film-noire giving a behind the scenes look at at the real Hollywood - atmospheric camera work and a brilliant script. The opening speech sets the scene beautifully:
Yes, this is Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California. It's about five o'clock in the morning. That's the Homicide Squad - complete with detectives and newspapermen. A murder has been reported from one of those great big houses in the ten thousand block. You'll read about it in the late editions, I'm sure. You'll get it over your radio and see it on television because an old-time star is involved - one of the biggest. But before you hear it all distorted and blown out of proportion, before those Hollywood columnists get their hands on it, maybe you'd like to hear the facts, the whole truth. If so, you've come to the right party. You see, the body of a young man was found floating in the pool of her mansion - with two shots in his back and one in his stomach. Nobody important, really. Just a movie writer with a couple of 'B' pictures to his credit. The poor dope! He always wanted a pool. Well, in the end, he got himself a pool - only the price turned out to be a little high.
Also: Laura, It's a Wonderful Life, Now Voyager and of course Psycho - they don't make 'em like they used to.
What are your favourite oldies?
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anybody in to foreign films watch this, it's about rascism in Paris.
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