The Filmographers

Billy Wilder’s last film was a classy, black-and-white romance that paid homage to his mentor, Ernst Lubitsch. In The Seven Year Itch, Wilder goes widescreen and Technicolor to squeeze out plenty of boob jokes.

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Hollywood will never tire of remakes, even though few of them manage to capture the spirit of the original. Can the 1995 update of Billy Wilder's classic "Sabrina" buck that trend? It does have an all-star cast and a veteran director behind the camera. Surely this remake won't be like all those other remakes...

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Billy Wilder is still playing it safe. Sabrina (1954) has stars (Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, and William Holden) and is based on a popular Broadway play. But is that enough to keep his latest winning streak going?

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In Billy Wilder's "Ace in the Hole," audiences were given a look at what happens when news becomes more focused on sensation than truth, more allegiant to entertainment than dignity. Twenty-five years later, Sidney Lumet took those themes even deeper in "Network," a movie that predicted anger-driven "infotainment" years before it became a thing. In this episode, we connect the dots between these two seminal films.

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Cosmo Graff, graphic design

Billy Wilder once made a romance in the ruins of post–World War II Berlin, so it makes sense that he'd also have the nerve to write and direct a full-fledged comedy about POWs in a Nazi prison camp. With his 1953 picture, "Stalag 17," the wacky set-ups just keep on coming.

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In complete charge of his destiny, Wilder followed the triumph of Sunset Boulevard with Ace in the Hole, perhaps his most personal movie—certainly his darkest. But the movie bombed, giving Billy Wilder his first taste of failure and changing the course of his career.

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Wilder vs. Mankiewicz! Swanson vs. Davis! Hollywood vs. New York! It's a ten-round, heavyweight bout between two classic films--two classics that explored similar terrain, were released within 10 weeks of each other, and duked it out at the 1950 Oscars. And now, 76 years later, we're putting them into the ring again.

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Billy Wilder is depressed. He’s breaking up with his writing partner, Charles Brackett, and an encounter with a ghost from Hollywood’s past has left him shaken. What can he do? Make a movie, of course—an enduring classic about the way Hollywood eats its own.

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