Double Feature: SUNSET BOULEVARD, 1950, MULHOLLAND DR., 2001 March 24, 2012

Saturday, March 24 – 7:30 PM
Double Feature: SUNSET BOULEVARD, 1950, Paramount, 110 min. "I’m ready for my close-up, Mr. De Mille!" Director Billy Wilder created one of his most enduring masterpieces in this dark, glittering poison pen letter to all things Hollywood, told in flashback by murdered screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden), whose final job is playing paid-companion to egocentric, aging silent film goddess Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson). With Erich von Stroheim. Academy Award Winner for Best Screenplay (Wilder, Charles Brackett and D.M. Marshman, Jr.) and Score (Franz Waxman). The original Schwab’s drugstore figures prominently in the film, as does Paramount Studios and the still-standing Alto Nido apartments. [35mm]
Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwxGbhclIGw&feature=fvst
MULHOLLAND DR., 2001, Universal, 147 min. In David Lynch's maniacal, notorious thriller, amnesiac Rita (Laura Harring), who barely escapes being murdered on winding, hilly Mulholland Drive, makes her way down to Hollywood, where she sneaks into the apartment of bright-eyed aspiring actress Betty (Naomi Watts). When the two women encounter each other and try to piece together what happened to Rita, their descent into the freshly warped and hypnotically nightmarish Lynchian rabbit hole ensues. [35mm]
Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8i5CyDmWqk&feature=related

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