High Contrast Cinema returns with another of Billy Wilder's most celebrated masterpieces, Sunset Boulevard.

 

Widely considered to be one of the greatest films of all time, it stars William Holden as a struggling screenwriter caught in a silent film star's web of delusion.

 

Wilder cast Gloria Swanson, one of the biggest stars of the 1920s, in perhaps her greatest role as Norma Desmond, which resulted in her third Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

 

By turns a film noir, a black comedy and a Hollywood satire, its influence, reputation and cultural significance hasn't diminished over the past seven decades.