Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz will portray legendary Old Hollywood director Billy Wilder in a biographical film from director Stephen Frears, the film’s producer Jeremy Thomas announced Monday. “Billy ...

The history of European directors “going Hollywood” and making the leap to English-language filmmaking is long and uneven. By A.J. Goldmann A bare-bones revival of the Broadway musical grew on me with ...

The 1960 film about a downtrodden insurance worker and his burgeoning crush is full of staccato repartee and unforgettable jokes. It’s barely aged a day ...

For others, there’s nothing better in the summer than a cool movie theater. One way to get out of the sun this year is by catching the films of Billy Wilder. The Cleveland Institute of Art ...

June 6 (UPI) --Christoph Waltz will play the lead role in "Billy Wilder & Me," adapted from Jonathan Coe's partially true book about the Hollywood director from a young Greek woman's perspective. The ...

For Billy Wilder, one of the most influential filmmakers in Hollywood history, the priorities were always story and character. If the premise of a movie, no matter the genre, is fully supported by ...

How the fabled Hollywood director confronted survivor’s guilt, the legacies of the Holocaust, and the paradoxes of Zionism. Billy Wilder walks down a London street during the 1969 filming of The ...

as one of Billy Wilder’s essential comedies, but it’s one of his funniest and most biting. Olive Films is releasing a bare-bones but beautiful-looking Blu-Ray of the film today, and it’s a great ...

This article was corrected on April 1, 2002. Viennese-reared Billy Wilder, one of Hollywood’s greatest writer-directors whose films ranged from thrillers, melodramas, comedies and romances, died ...