Hildegard Knef would have celebrated her 100th birthday on December 28 just passed. Given the number of cigarettes she smoked ...

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 romantic comedies and Christmas movies ...

Gloria Swanson is extraordinary as faded film-star Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder’s cameo-packed self-referential masterpiece about tinseltown ghosts and delusions Billy Wilder’s film starring Gloria ...

National Correspondent, "CBS News Sunday Morning" Lee Cowan is an Emmy-award-winning journalist serving as a national correspondent and substitute anchor for "CBS News Sunday Morning." Billy Bob ...

“Sunset Boulevard” turns 75 this year, which got me thinking about how I first discovered what I consider the second greatest movie ever made. This cinematic milestone also made me consider why I ...

Oscar nominee and star of the upcoming “Song Sung Blue” Kate Hudson was honored by the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation at its annual charity dinner on Wednesday, where she received the ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Allysia Finley and Kyle Peterson. Billy Wilder is credited with a famously mordant line about his fellow Jews: “The optimists ...

Upon its release, "Avanti!" was largely dismissed by critics as the work of an out-of-touch director past his prime, but its leading lady helps reframe the movie's position in its filmmaker's — and ...

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 ...

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 97-year-old actress tells IndieWire what it was like working with Billy Wilder on the classic as Paramount releases a new restoration for streaming and physical media. That “Sunset Boulevard” and ...