SUNSET BLVD

“I am big, it’s the pictures that got small!”

Hollywood’s great poison pen letter to itself. Billy Wilder’s audaciously dark examination of the Hollywood dream factory casts faded silent-movie star Gloria Swanson as has-been silent star Norma Desmond. Festering in the grandeur of her old dark mansion and daydreaming of comeback, the character is a brutal warning about the unchecked egotism of superstardom.

Other real-life giants of the silent cinema –Erich von Stroheim, Cecil B. DeMille and Buster Keaton – fill out the murky corners of Wilder’s vision. Be ready for your close up!

See it before or after seeing the silent movie transition in BABYLON! Only at the Texas!