Billy Wilder never played it safe. His scripts snapped with cynicism, his characters lingered like smoke, and his films – equal parts bitter and brilliant – still leave their mark long after the credits roll. Sunset Boulevard gave us faded fame and fatal ambition. The Apartment turned loneliness into a punchline, then a quiet heartbreak. Somehow, they still feel unnervingly modern. Even now, Wilder’s fingerprints are everywhere – in the symmetrical worlds of Wes Anderson, the meta spirals of Christopher Nolan, the sharp sincerity of Greta Gerwig. He wrote people as they were, not as they wished to be. This August, House Samyan invites you back into Wilder’s world – flickering, flawed, impossible to forget. Sunset Boulevard screens from August 8 and The Apartment follows from August 22.
From August 8 and August 22 onwards. B160 via here. House Samyan.
