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Meenakshi Sundareshwar is a relatable film

The Telegraph India 03 Nov 2021
November 5, Meenakshi Sundareshwar is helmed by debutant Vivek Soni ... A long-distance relationship scores high in terms of relatability for most. Vivek, what was the genesis of the story of Meenakshi Sundareshwar?. Advertisement ... Abhimanyu ... Like Billy Wilder’s The Apartment, (Charlie) Chaplin’s City Lights, Kundan Shah’s Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa, Rockstar...
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Peter Scolari: Versatile comic actor who became a staple of US TV

The Independent 02 Nov 2021
They dress as women to conceal their identities – reviving a hoary showbiz trope perhaps done best in Billy Wilder’s 1959 comedy Some Like It Hot, with Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, and in Tootsie, a 1982 film ...
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What to stream: Make it a Noirvember to remember

Finger Lakes Times 02 Nov 2021
Spooky season has officially come to a close, and though you may want to cue up the never-ending stream of holiday movies that are now available, don’t rush the season ... Billy Wilder’s 1944 masterpiece “Double Indemnity” will always top the lists of best classic film noir ... Rent it on all digital platforms for $3.99 ... Rent it everywhere for $2.99 ... ———. .
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TheWrap’s Top 50 Film Schools of 2021

The Wrap 02 Nov 2021
George Christian Centennial Professor and RTF Chair Noah Isenberg, founding director of the New School’s film program, is the author of the definitive “We’ll Always Have Casablanca” plus the terrific new “Billy Wilder on Assignment.” But RTF’s 1,160 ...
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Film Festival: Month-long event supporting local nonprofits

The News Guard 01 Nov 2021
State Senator Dick Anderson joined the Bijou Theatre’s Betsy and Keith Altomare in revealing a new plaque in the theater’s lobby honoring the late cinema-lover, Pieter Vijfvinkle and inaugurating a month-long admission-by-donation“ Billy Wilder Film Festival” in his honor.
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Dad Daze: Films to experience with your children

The Spokesman-Review 31 Oct 2021
I would rather watch an old film that’s good than a new film that’s bad is what I often say to my children when we discuss what movie we would like to stream ... Nothing puts us in a better mood than “Some Like It Hot.” The Billy Wilder classic is simply magical ... “It wasn’t easy dealing with (writer-director) Billy (Wilder),” Curtis said ... 5, 1955.
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What’s Going On With Blonde, Netflix’s Marilyn Monroe Biopic?

Vogue 28 Oct 2021
... decidedly real, like Whitey, the make-up artist behind Monroe’s ivory skin and what Oates terms her “platinum cotton-candy head”, and Classical Hollywood titan Billy Wilder, who directed Monroe in her two best-known films, The Seven Year Itch (1955) and Some Like It Hot (1959).
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Why Sweet Smell of Success Is the Most Scathing Journalism Movie

Collider 27 Oct 2021
However, there’s a broad spectrum of how flattering big-screen depictions of the press have been, with everything from the despicable ginned-up journalism in Billy Wilder’s Ace In The Hole to the illuminating ...
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After COVID filming hurdles, Columbus-centric 'They/Them/Us' makes its local premiere

Columbus Alive 27 Oct 2021
When Jon Sherman worked as an independent filmmaker in New York City, he naturally set his romantic comedies there, too ... "We have so many film programs at [nearby] colleges ... “I thought a lot about [filmmakers] Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges in terms of creating the screenplay, because the movie's tone is a little strange,” Sherman said.
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Stephen Schaefer’s Hollywood & Mine

Boston Herald 26 Oct 2021
Those films range from ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s,’ easily today celebrated as her defining triumph, ‘Roman Holiday,’ an exquisite debut as director William Wyler defined her style and made her a star, to Billy Wilder’s ‘Sabrina’ with Humphrey Bogart, Stanley Donen’s delightful ...
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Academy Museum’s New Film Series to Explore Austrian-Jewish Filmmakers Who Built Hollywood

The Wrap 25 Oct 2021
Artists that will be included in the focus include directors Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang, Fred Zinneman and Otto Preminger; actors Hedy Lamarr, Peter Lorre and Paul Henreid, producers Eric Pleskow and Sam Spiegel, as well as many others. The six-week program launches on Dec. 10 with the two-day symposium “Vienna in Hollywood ... and Wilshire Blvd ... 30 ... .
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Inside Film

The Independent 22 Oct 2021
When Billy Wilder was a young journalist living on the breadline in Berlin in the 1920s, he worked briefly as a gigolo and dancer for hire ... Film historian Joseph McBride’s new biography of the filmmaker, Billy Wilder ... Wilder (1906-2002) went on to become one of the greatest and most contradictory filmmakers in Hollywood history ... .
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The Graves Registry: Much more than just a pretty face

Brattleboro Reformer 21 Oct 2021
“You mean, aside from Ella?” ... Stone” and “Ship of Fools.” ... → ... Billy Wilder, who made two of Monroe’s most warmly remembered films, “The Seven Year Itch” and “Some Like It Hot,” had what was probably the kindest assessment of her from a professional standpoint. “It was all worth it,” said Wilder, “when you saw what was up there on the screen.” ... ....
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‘Frasier’ co-creator pledges $5 million to save Palm Springs’ Plaza Theatre

The Los Angeles Times 21 Oct 2021
The Plaza Theatre in downtown Palm Springs is the Norma Desmond of the city’s illustrious midcentury past. Like the faded grand dame of the classic Billy Wilder film, the 1936 Spanish Colonial Revival building has fallen on hard times ... Lee, who also co-wrote and co-produced “Cheers” and “The Jeffersons,” will donate the first $3 million immediately.
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