Friday, April 17, 2009

Billy Wilder Speaks (2006)

Essentially a protracted series of interviews (partly in German, partly in English) of the great director/screen writer Billy Wilder. The interviews were filmed in 1988, released in Europe in 1992, and re-cut for American release to co-inside with the centennial anniversary of the late film greats birth. I was surprisingly disappointed, didn’t feel as if I learned much new, though I had fairly recently read the directors authorized biography, which of course would cover basicly the same ground. Fair.

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