A cinematic classic

Looking for a getaway to entertainment with cin- ematic films? Look no further than the Concord Film Society. 

Each week the Concord Film Society reels out a movie from the ever expanding library of cinema. One week it could be a classic horror flick and an international film the next. All the while, movies that reside in the mainstream are avoided. The people in the Concord Film Society try to choose from a variety of films to show week after week. For this current se- mester, they kicked things off with “The Big Sleep”. Following that was “Ghost World”, and for the week that just ended, they showed “Dead Man’s Shoes”. 

This week the Film Society will be presenting a Hollywood classic known as “Sunset Boulevard”. Dr. Charles Brichford, CU Professor and Division Chair of English, gave a quick preview of “Sunset Boulevard”. “Sunset Boulevard” is a black and white film directed by Billy Wilder and was released in 1950. The cast stars Gloria Swanson as the main character who lives in a lonely Beverly Hills mansion. Co-starring as her butler is the famous silent movie director Erich von Stroheim. This film also stars William Holden in more of an early performance. He would later go on to become a famous star of the 50’s. Dr. Brichford classifies this film as psychodrama. This films starts out with a mysterious scene that sets things in motion. Without any spoilers, all that can be said is that there’s a body found in the pool of a Beverly Hills mansion. Dr. Brichford stated, “I’m not spoiling things for anybody, because they’ll find out in the first 15 seconds [of the movie].”