Featuring “Sunset Boulevard” on the silver screen once again, the Bosque Film Society begins its members-only Film Apprciation Nights for 2022 at The Cliftex Theatre in Clifton Feb. 8
By E. BRETT VOSS
Bosque Film Society Founding Board President
CLIFTON – The Bosque Film Society wants to cordially invite all members to attend 2022’s first members-only FILM APPRECIATION NIGHT at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, February 8 at The Cliftex Theatre in Clifton.
The 1950 classic film noir drama SUNSET BOULEVARD will be featured with an introductory presentation by Bryan Davis, the Bosque Film Society historian and founding board member. Since this will be a private showing, BYOB will be allowed, and the theatre concession stand will be open for purchases. Although the event will be closed to the public, those wishing to become Bosque Film Society members Tuesday night will be admitted.
Upcoming FILM APPRECIATION NIGHTS will include: Feb. 8 — Sunset Blvd (1950), 110 min; April 12 — Rear Window (1954), 112 min; June 14 — Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid (1969), 110 min; Aug. 9 — All That Jazz (1979), 123 min; Oct. 11 — Out of Africa (1985), 161 min; Dec. 13 — Christmas Party: White Christmas (1954), 120 min.
SUNSET BOULEVARD
(1950) 110 minutes, Film Noir/Drama
Joe Gillis is a struggling hack B-movie Hollywood screenwriter who is having problems making ends meet. His car, a symbol to him of independence, is threatened to be repossessed due to being behind in payments.
While trying to escape from his creditors, Joe has a flat tire and parks his car in a decadent mansion in Sunset Boulevard. He meets the owner and former silent-movie star Norma Desmond, who lives alone with her butler and driver Max Von Mayerling. Norma is demented and believes she will return to the cinema industry, and is protected and isolated from the world by Max, who was her director and husband in the past and still loves her.
Norma suggests that Joe move to the mansion and help her in writing a screenplay for her comeback to the cinema, and the small-time writer becomes her lover and gigolo. When Joe falls in love for the young aspirant writer Betty Schaefer, Norma becomes jealous and completely insane, and her madness leads to a tragic end.
Nominated for 11 Academy Awards and winner of three Oscars, the 1950 film noir drama was directed by Billy Wilder, starring William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson.
