Misfortunes of Imaginary Beings

People on Sunday  (Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, 1929) Cast : Erwin Splettstößer, Brigitte Borchert, Wolfgang von Waltershausen, Christl E...

Love in the Afternoon (Billy Wilder, 1957) Cast : Audrey Hepburn, Gary Cooper, Maurice Chevalier, John McGi...

Watched 10/5/2018 Phoebe Frost : Jean Arthur Erika von Schluetow : Marlene Dietrich Capt. John Pringle : John Lund Col. Rufus J. Plumm...

Henry Travers, Aubrey Mather, Oskar Homolka, Leonid Kinskey, Gary Cooper, S.Z. Sakall, Tully Marshall, Barbara Stanwyck, and Richard Ha...

David Niven, Gary Cooper, and Claudette Colbert in Bluebeard's Eighth Wife Nicole De Loiselle : Claudette Colbert Michael Brandon :...

Greta Garbo and Bela Lugosi in Ninotchka Nina Ivanova Yakushova : Greta Garbo Count Leon d'Algout : Melvyn Douglas Grand Duchess S...

After their success with Sunset Blvd. (1950), Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett went their separate ways. They had been one of the most s...

Jan Sterling and Kirk Douglas in Ace in the Hole Chuck Tatum : Kirk Douglas Lorraine Minosa : Jan Sterling Herbie Cook : Robert Arth...

If such a thing as conscience could be ascribed to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, it might be said that giving The Lost ...

Sunset Blvd. , with the abbreviation, is the "official" title because it's the only way we see it in the credits of the film...

Jack Lemmon was an actor Billy Wilder trusted almost more than any other. Starting with Some Like It Hot (1959), they made seven films to...

Oscar-bashing is an easy game to play, but sometimes it's a necessary one. Double Indemnity was nominated for seven Academy Awards: b...

Twenty years ago (!), when I wrote my book about movies that had been nominated for Oscars, I had this to say about Some Like It Hot : ...

Tiresome, talky, and unfunny, this may be Billy Wilder's worst film. Wilder blamed the censors, who squelched all the sexual innuendos...