Post by timshelboy on Feb 11, 2019 17:41:43 GMT
I guess it maybe a few years too late to be genuinely "classic"... but as it could be said the theme is the death of the classic era I'm hoping it will be allowed! .... Billy Wilder's marvellous FEDORA (1978) - which I'd say was a MUST SEE for any classic film buff.
TIME OUT says it more eloquently than I
A shamefully underrated film, Fedora is Wilder's testament and one of the most sublime achievements of the '70s. Only superficially does it resemble Sunset Blvd., since time has moved on; appropriately, Fedora is about a star's disastrous attempt to make time stop, and a washed-up producer's efforts to cope with Hollywood's inexorable new generation. Atmospherically set on Corfu, it explores the basis of cinema: realism, illusion, romance and tragedy - in a word, emotion. It's not a flashy film, let alone a cynical one, and it has a narrative assurance beyond the grasp of most directors nowadays: finely acted, mysterious, witty, moving and magnificent.
Plus you get Miklos Rosza's finest score!