Episode 599: Sunset Blvd (1950)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 143 minutes

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Summary

We conclude #Noirvember 2022 with a look at Billy Wilder’s Sunset Blvd. Released in 1950, the film tells the story of Joe Gillis (William Holden), a screenwriter who meets a faded star of yesteryear, Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson). Gillis becomes a kept man while helping to fuel Norma’s Desmond’s delusion that she’s returning to the silver screen in a lavish production of Salome.

Agatha Luz (Cinemaspection) and Philip Marinello (The Substance Podcast) join Mike to discuss one of the best films ever made. Interviews include Steven Cohan (author of the new BFI book on Sunset Blvd) and Jeffrey Schwarz (director of Boulevard! A Hollywood Story).

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks.
0:06.8	It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.0	Shut it off.
0:25.4	Turn it off.
0:27.6	Turn it off.
0:31.6	Hey, Andrew! The Heather Harper speaking.
1:13.3	I'm talking from the bedroom of Norma Desmond.
1:15.7	Don't bother with a rewrite, man.
1:16.6	Take this direct.
1:16.9	Ready?
1:19.8	As day breaks over the murder house.
1:25.0	Yes, you'll read the big black headlines about Norma Desmond and this Hollywood scandal.
1:29.4	But you'll never read the true story about the rest of us who were part of it.
1:33.7	Me, for instance, Joe Gillis, a promising young writer from Dayton, Ohio.
1:41.0	And Betty, that nice kid I met at a Hollywood party, who knew nothing about me, but knew what she wanted.
1:42.6	Don't you love, Artie?
1:44.3	Of course I love him.
1:46.3	I always will.
1:50.9	I'm just not in love with him anymore.
	...

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