• Certainly feels like an update on sunset boulevard with the William holden and aging/old actress Hollywood royalty story line and plot
  • Fantastic narrative twist that will be interesting to evaluate on a second viewing
  • Cameos from Michael York and Henry Fonda
  • Hilarious (and telling) comment from Wilder as writer talking about (through holden as his mouthpiece) how “the beards have taken over Hollywood” clearly referring to the American new wave movie brats that include coppola, scorsese, de palma, Spielberg, lucas. Something to the effect of “they don’t need a script at all- just a handheld camera”- this is both hilarious and a little self-damning to Wilder who may not be quite as good a movie director as he is a movie writer (which he’s one of the best of all-time so that’s no big insult)
  • Not in the top 10 of 1978
  • Recommend