![]() ![]() But he was curiously tight-lipped on the subject of perhaps his best picture. ![]() In rat-a-tat subtitled in German and English, Wilder energetically held forth on his life and filmmaking career in pre-war Europe as a protégé of Ernst Lubitsch and in post-war Hollywood as the famously successful director and co-writer of “Sunset Boulevard,” “The Seven Year Itch,” and “Some Like It Hot.” For the most part, Wilder remained lively, pithy, and garrulous about friends, rivals, collaborators, and the films they made. The resulting footage (broadcast on German television as “Billy Wilder: How Did You Do It?”) was recently released by Kino International in a DVD package under a less translated-from-the-German title: “Billy Wilder Speaks.”Īnd speak he did. ![]() In 1991, 11 years before his death at 96, the director Billy Wilder sat for a series of interviews with the German filmmakers Gisela Grischow and Volker Schlöndorff. ![]()
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