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Billy Wilder by Noël Simsolo (2011, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPhaidon Press, Incorporated

ISBN-102866426096

ISBN-139782866426095

eBay Product ID (ePID)99389026

Product Key Features

Book TitleBilly Wilder

Number of Pages104 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicFilm / General, Individual Director (See Also Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts), Film / History & Criticism

Publication Year2011

IllustratorYes

GenrePerforming Arts

AuthorNoël Simsolo

Book SeriesMasters of Cinema Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight13 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width7.7 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

ReviewsOn the Masters of CinemaSeries "Modern directors are briefly and brilliantly profiled in sharp prose and smart pictures in these movie master-classes for film buffs and beginners."--Saga "Short, beautifully illustrated essays on great directors."--The Times "Exceptional value... Lively and accessible... Indispensable."--Obessed With Film "Bargain price. Does an already saturated market need yet more auteur guides? On this evidence, yes... Briskly paced, scalpel-sharp primers... The collective quality is high, the tone scholarly but not intimidating... A triumph of layout as much as content, each book glows with gorgeous on- and off-screen archive photography... Magnifique."--Total Film, On the Masters of Cinema Series "Modern directors are briefly and brilliantly profiled in sharp prose and smart pictures in these movie master-classes for film buffs and beginners."-- Saga "Short, beautifully illustrated essays on great directors."-- The Times "Exceptional value... Lively and accessible... Indispensable."-- Obessed With Film "Bargain price. Does an already saturated market need yet more auteur guides? On this evidence, yes... Briskly paced, scalpel-sharp primers... The collective quality is high, the tone scholarly but not intimidating... A triumph of layout as much as content, each book glows with gorgeous on- and off-screen archive photography... Magnifique."-- Total Film

Grade FromEighth Grade

Grade ToCollege Graduate Student

SynopsisBilly Wilder (USA, 1906-2002) is an undisputed master of American comedy, taking situation comedy to the edge of the absurd in Some Like it Hot (1959). But he also made pessimistic melodramas such as Sunset Boulevard (1950), in which Gloria Swanson gives a moving performance as a fallen star, and a few fine examples of film noir, such as Double Ind, Billy Wilder (USA, 1906-2002) is an undisputed master of American comedy, taking situation comedy to the edge of the absurd in Some Like it Hot (1959). But he also made pessimistic melodramas such as Sunset Boulevard (1950), in which Gloria Swanson gives a moving performance as a fallen star, and a few fine examples of film noir, such as Double Indemnity (1944) et Witness for the Prosecution (1957). Wilder worked with the greatest stars and his filmography is studded with classic scenes, including Marilyn Monroe playing the banjo in Some Like it Hot or holding her billowing skirt over the subway outlet in Seven Year Itch (1955), Jack Lemmon draining spaghetti with a tennis racket in The Apartment (1960) and Shirley MacLaine as a Parisian streetwalker in Irma la Douce (1963). His humour is often incisive and his vision of the world somewhat cynical, but all his characters experience a moment of truth and, for this reason, Billy Wilder is primarily a great moralist.

LC Classification NumberPN1998.3