Filmpodium, a repertory cinema operated by the Mayor of Zurich’s Office of Cultural Affairs, screens around 350 different films per year. Thematic cycles and retrospectives of classic works of cinema run side-by-side with premieres of distinctive ...
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Sunset Boulevard
Billy Wilder (USA 1950)
Screening of a unique 35 mm print from the Cinémathèque Suisse collection.
‘An ageing, once-celebrated silent film diva is obsessed with her desire for a comeback and persuades a young, debt-ridden Hollywood screenwriter to revise a screenplay she has written. When she falls in love with him, it is only the beginning of the end of a disaster.’ (Filmpodium, Jul/Aug/Sep 2019)
Right at the midpoint of the century, Sunset Boulevard looks back through the dark-tinted lens of film noir at the early decades of film history. Familiar faces appear: Gloria Swanson, Buster Keaton, Erich von Stroheim … But the film also explores themes that have shaped cinema in general: the cult of stardom and the media machine, the transition from silent to sound film, and the artificial studio worlds of the major production companies. Wilder is already offering a swan song to classic Hollywood not long before its demise – one of several ‘Sunsets’ to which the film (retrospectively) seems to allude. (dw)
115 mins / sw / 35 mm / E/d/f
‘An ageing, once-celebrated silent film diva is obsessed with her desire for a comeback and persuades a young, debt-ridden Hollywood screenwriter to revise a screenplay she has written. When she falls in love with him, it is only the beginning of the end of a disaster.’ (Filmpodium, Jul/Aug/Sep 2019)
Right at the midpoint of the century, Sunset Boulevard looks back through the dark-tinted lens of film noir at the early decades of film history. Familiar faces appear: Gloria Swanson, Buster Keaton, Erich von Stroheim … But the film also explores themes that have shaped cinema in general: the cult of stardom and the media machine, the transition from silent to sound film, and the artificial studio worlds of the major production companies. Wilder is already offering a swan song to classic Hollywood not long before its demise – one of several ‘Sunsets’ to which the film (retrospectively) seems to allude. (dw)
115 mins / sw / 35 mm / E/d/f
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Director: Billy Wilder
Screenplay: Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, D. M. Marshman Jr.
Cinematography: John F. Seitz
Music: Franz Waxman
Editing: Arthur Schmidt
Cast: William Holden (Joe Gillis), Gloria Swanson (Norma Desmond), Erich von Stroheim (Max von Mayerling), Nancy Olson (Betty Schaefer), Fred Clark (Sheldrake), Lloyd Gough (Morino), Jack Webb (Artie Green), Cecil B. DeMille, Hedda Hopper, Buster Keaton, Anna Q. Nilsson, H. B. Warner
Screenplay: Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, D. M. Marshman Jr.
Cinematography: John F. Seitz
Music: Franz Waxman
Editing: Arthur Schmidt
Cast: William Holden (Joe Gillis), Gloria Swanson (Norma Desmond), Erich von Stroheim (Max von Mayerling), Nancy Olson (Betty Schaefer), Fred Clark (Sheldrake), Lloyd Gough (Morino), Jack Webb (Artie Green), Cecil B. DeMille, Hedda Hopper, Buster Keaton, Anna Q. Nilsson, H. B. Warner
Filmpodium Kino
Nüschelerstrasse 11
8001 Zürich
+41 (0)44 415 33 66
info@filmpodium.ch
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The cinema is accessible for wheelchairs and equipped with a wireless assistive listening system.
