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Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Films was Billy Wilder's

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

William Holden and Gloria Swanson bring us the tale of a gigolo and a faded star.

Well, that's not how they see it.

It is a great picture. You can hardly say anything about it that doesn't diminish it.

It is a great film noir classic as well. Textbook. Watch the light. The streets. The cars. The clothes. Shadows within shadows. I guess that is the light, huh. See? You can't talk about it without diminishing it.

I will give it a 5 out of Netflix5 and plan to see it again before my own star fades.

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