Billy Wilder Archives - Bright Wall/Dark Room

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

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

Marshall Shaffer·

Issue 87: Billy Wilder

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.

Billy Wilder and the 1930s Romantic Comedy

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