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Insomnia Cinema: Sunset Boulevard (1950) (Patreon)

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2025-01-14 18:12:05
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2026-06
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Content

Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Nancy Olson, Erich Von Stroheim, Jack Webb, Buster Keaton, Cecil B. Demille

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Comments

Sly_Budlong

When your insomnia hits again after this try watching Arsenic and Old Lace, it's super funny and a great classic film! 😁 Be warned: you need a dark sense of humor to find the jokes funny 😅

Pam Nail

Some numbers: $28,000 in 1930 (I guessed the year of the car) would be just over half a million dollars today. And Gloria Swanson was 50-51 when this movie was made -- the same age as Hannah Waddingham, Amy Adams, Olivia Colman, Eva Mendez, Alanis Morrisette, Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale are right now. This isn't technically a horror movie, but it might as well be. Norma Desmond is such a fantastic ghoul, even though I feel a lot of sympathy for her (not unlike a lot of classic movie monsters, to be honest). There are so many spectacular things about this movie, but it is exceptionally shot. It seems impossible that it didn't win the Oscar for cinematography that year, but The Third Man also came out that year so that was that.

nj

my immediate thought: sally field in soapdish shouting "i look like gloria fucking swanson!"

Toc

Fantastic choice! Especially after All About Eve! So......you might talk about it in the reaction (haven't watched it yet!), but I'll ask here: it's 1951 and you get your Oscar ballot: do you vote Sunset Boulevard? Or do you vote All About Eve? Do you vote Bette Davis? Or Gloria Swanson? Excellent choice. PS: One of the greatest, most entertaining movies ever, ever, ever is sort of the flip side of "Sunset Boulevard": "Singin' In The Rain". Another movie from the 50s that deals with the silent movie era. F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C. Other great 50s movies to hit: Brando and Vivien Leigh in Brando's breakthrough, game-changing performance: "A Streetcar Named Desire". Kubrick's first two studio films: "The Killing" and "Paths Of Glory". From the 40s, I'm assuming you've seen "Citizen Kane" already! If you've seen that already....you're ready for "The Third Man". Hitchcock's "Strangers On A Train"......so damn good! Ok, that's enough recommendations for Insomnia Cinema!! I will DEFINITELY be watching this reaction!!