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Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder and the 1930s Romantic Comedy

Elise Moore·
Issue 87: Billy Wilder
Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder
Wilder's early work in romantic comedy—Bluebeards Eighth Wife, Midnight, Ball of Fire, and The Major and the Minor—makes it easier to spot the element of enchantment that lingers in his tonally complex mature comedies Read More

The Sense of an Ending: Billy Wilder’s Parting Shots as Auteurist Stamp

Marshall Shaffer·
Issue 87: Billy Wilder
The Apartment (Wilder, 1960) | United Artists
If one considers the chief tension of Billy Wilder’s work as the push and pull between cynicism and romanticism, the closing moments of a Wilder film complicate the notion that one can ever fully vanquish the other. Read More

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