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2 days ago · His latest work is a book on family relative Charles Brackett's films made with his partner Billy Wilder,Double Solitaire: The Films of Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, published in January 2024.
4 days ago · Collider. Custom Image by Zanda Rice. Turner Classic Movie's host, Eddie Muller, is the ultimate connoisseur of the film noir genre and the host of the channel's popular segment, Noir Alley. Every ...
Aug 30, 2024 · Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett actually began filming "Sunset Boulevard" without a final shooting script. Wilder wanted to conceal the nature of the story, which was an exposé of Hollywood's dark side, from the studios, and chose the innocuous shooting title.
3 days ago · Today, The Long Goodbye is considered one of the films that embody the neo-noir genre perfectly and capture the changing viewpoints toward the leading man behind the noir. Title. Rotten Tomatoes Critic Score. Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score. The Long Goodbye (1973) 95%.
3 days ago · Brackett was one of the few women publishing in the male-dominated crime and sci-fi industries, and her gender ambiguous name likely mitigated discrimination to some degree until she became better known, though she usually claimed she never personally experienced any significant sex-based prejudice.
21 hours ago · True Grit, which was nominated for Best Picture of 2010, is the second adaptation of Charles Portis's 1968 novel following the 1969 film of the same name. Four of the nominees for the 94th ceremony were based on source material previously made into films: CODA , Dune , Nightmare Alley , and West Side Story .
1 day ago · Despite the clever screenplay by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, [148] and solid performances by Cooper and Colbert, [146] American audiences had trouble accepting Cooper in the role of a shallow philanderer. It succeeded only at the European box-office market.
