Sunset Boulevard

Director: Billy Wilder

1950 / 110min / 35mm

Utterly transfixing from the opening moments, in which Midwestern journalist-cum-skint-screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden) begins to posthumously narrate his sob story while floating face-down in a swimming pool in the Hollywood Hills, Wilder’s Tinseltown gothic is a movie steeped in love and hate for the movie business and the monsters that it attracts and nurtures, like Gillis and his sugar mama, faded silent film star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson). An industry inside joke both funny and haunting, often stolen from and quoted (“I’m ready for my close-up”) but never diminished in its eerie grandeur.

Please note: The matinee screening on Monday, March 23rd will be general admission and eligible for the AHNY promotion. Ticketes are available only in-person and on the day of your preferred screening. No advance pickup.

Eligible New Yorkers may attend screenings free of charge at all participating venues by presenting valid forms of identification at the box office.
- New York City teachers with valid ID
- United States active-duty military personnel and veterans with valid ID or service record
- New York City families registered with “Cool Culture”
- People with disabilities with the presentation of their reduced-fare OMNY card, Access-A-Ride ID SNAP/EBT cardholders with the presentation of their SNAP/EBT card CUNY student ID.
- All eligible individuals are welcome to bring a +1 as part of this program

Distributor: Paramount

Part of What Price Hollywood?