Screening Dates: Thursday, November 6, 2025, 8:00 p.m. / Thursday, December 4, 2025 8:00 PM / Saturday, January 3, 2026, 6:30 PM

 

Director: Billy Wilder

Screenplay: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D.M. Marshman Jr.

Cast: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Cecil B. DeMille, Buster Keaton, Hedda Hopper

 

 

This dark fairy tale, which brings together the glamour and decay of Hollywood in the same frame, tells the story of a young screenwriter and a faded star who use each other in their selfish hopes of surviving in that glittering world. Billy Wilder, with his biting humor, sharp dialogue, and noir shadows, lays bare the cold anatomy of a system that turns dreams into trials, fame into obsession, and love into addiction. In Sunset Blvd., where even the dust particles glistening in the light evoke ghosts of the past, every scene becomes a mirror forcing Hollywood to confront itself.

 

The film, which won three Oscars, is etched in history with Gloria Swanso’s majestic fragility and those famous lines that shatter Hollywood’s own myth. Wilder speaks from within the studio era, leaving both an elegy and a sharp warning for the Golden Age. It is reported that after watching the film, MGM boss Louis B. Mayer accused Wilder of betraying the industry he worked in.