Sunset Boulevard - A Look Back

For anyone really interested in the film, there's a great documentary on Sunset Boulevard, available in three parts on YouTube (and included in the DVD release).

" . . . those wonderful people out there in the dark"

Sunset Boulevard: The End.
There may be no other scene in cinema that presents the relation between audience and film in such a rich, complex, and creepy way. Focusing on the audience's complicity in cinematic illusion--and thus a fundamental cultural dishonesty and inauthenticity--is pretty common these days. But Billy Wilder was certainly one of the hugest influences on the cynical style in cinema.

"I AM big--It's the pictures that got small"

Numerous memorable moments from Sunset Blvd are available on YouTube and elsewhere on the 'net. Here is how the audience are introduced to Norma Desmond--and to protagonist Joe Gillis, at least as he looks while he's still living.