IMDB No.28 - Sunset Blvd.  

Posted by KC


Hmmm , I think i have developed some kinda paranoia for these old english b/w classics !! May be its because i don like watching my very own Old B/w Tamil classics !! Most of them are such emotional tear jerkers ( starring Sivaji ganesan) or over the top heroism flicks (starring MGR) ! So i never liked watchin a tamil classic and is clinged on to me for English as well.. But then after watchin Hitchcocks flicks and movies like 12 Angry Men and Citzen Kane , i have developed a good liking to the classics ! Lol , So this is jus an excuse to having not watched this movie - Sunset Boulevard- Hollywoods first take on itself !! , and i ve right now dwnloaded the Torrent that am givin u !! So ll get back with my review at a later stage ! In the mean time i give u a good review from IMDB !

A IMDB Review :

Gloria Swanson, a legend by the time she made this comeback picture, and playing a legend trying to make a comeback, managed to create an entirely new legend: this picture! Quite a feat, I'd say. Everyone agrees the script is superb, the photography of a high order, the casting and acting masterly, the direction elegant, and so on. There have always been a few who have picked on Ms. Swanson for her allegedly 'grotesque' portrayal, but I discount this emphatically. She is, after all, playing the character of a silent movie queen, from an era of exaggerated gestures, who is by now fairly well demented and trying to recapture the past. What else would one expect? And who could do it better? Is there anyone at all you can imagine in this role other than Gloria Swanson? Let's get serious. This is not High Art, but it is Low Art raised to the nth degree; it is Hollywood myth captured in all its wonderful madness, with just the right dash of satire mixed with a dollop of sentiment, teetering perilously on the rickety border between drama and kitsch, and landing magnificently on its feet to the satisfaction of everyone who sees it. More than this we probably cannot ask of a movie, as those who have so often come to disaster with more pretentious themes have learned to their woe. This is THE 'movie about movies'; by its very nature it feeds on its own subject matter and grows more indisputably classic with every passing year.

Torrent Link for Sunset Boulevard:

Here !!

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