Name: Billy Wilder's 'Sunset Boulevard' at The Nightlight 🎬
Start: 2026-01-24T18:40:00-05:00
End: 2026-01-27T19:45:00-05:00
Location: 30 N High St, Akron, OH, United States, Ohio 44308

$Billy Wilder's 'Sunset Boulevard' at The Nightlight \ud83c\udfac$

All right, we're ready for our close-up. Lights, camera, action! 🎬⭐️🎞️ SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950) coming to The Nightlight Cinema for a limited run!
Sunset Boulevard is regularly cited in lists of best-ever movies and is an undoubted Hollywood classic. The film's central theme is the brutal and exploitative nature of the Hollywood film industry, but it also vividly portrays Hollywood's power and allure, making it "the most loving and the most scathing look Hollywood ever took at itself" (Alan Mattli).
At the heart of this narrative of obsession and lost dreams is the aging and forgotten silent movie star Norma Desmond, who draws the disillusioned screenwriter Joe Gillis into her claustrophobic world of delusion.The screenwriter's ambivalence about their relationship and her unwillingness to let go leads to a situation of violence, madness, and death.
Sunset Boulevard was co-written and directed by Billy Wilder, who also came up with the original idea. He was intrigued by the palatial mansions built in Hollywood by the stars of silent cinema, and wondered what had happened to these people who had once been so famous, but were now forgotten.
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