Billy Wilder

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Review: Tales from the Golden Age

Panorama of black-humor stories
The ironically titled film refers to the dreadful Alice-in-Wonderland years when Nicolae Ceausescu was the Communist strongman of Romania.
By GERALD PEARY | November 29, 2011

Dark passage

Film noir and the Production Code at the MFA
The Production Code, Hollywood's notorious self-censorship program, was instituted by the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America in 1930, but it didn't go into effect till 1934, when it was administered by Joseph I. Breen.
By STEVE VINEBERG | May 27, 2009

The Front Page

Breaking news: timeless fun at 2nd Story
The Front Page 's timeless fun at 2nd Story
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | January 28, 2009

Ghost of future past

Keir Dullea, gone tomorrow
When film actor Keir Dullea turned up in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo as the father of Angelina Jolie’s character in Robert De Niro’s The Good Shepherd , I was not only surprised to see him again onscreen, but amazed that he wasn’t dead.
By BRETT MICHEL | June 19, 2008

Fearsome Otto

Remembering Preminger
My one brush with the late Otto Preminger seems like a typical encounter.
By GERALD PEARY | May 13, 2008

The belle boy

Audrey Tautou goes slumming in Hors de prix
Precious, rather than priceless, is the word that comes to mind when describing Audrey Tautou.
By PETER KEOUGH | April 09, 2008

Pit bulls

And the Brattle’s WW2 flicks
They’re called “festival films,” movies that resonate with the serious, eager-minded who attend fests but have little chance in the Darwinian world of theatrical release.
By GERALD PEARY | March 28, 2007

Major and minor Billy

The HFA celebrates Wilder’s centennial
Billy Wilder’s expansive career began in Germany at the end of the ’20s, continued briefly in Paris when he fled Hitler in 1933, and picked up in Hollywood the following year.
By STEVE VINEBERG | December 07, 2006