Billy Wilder favorites

Perhaps the most beautiful, most powerful moral universe ever created. All of Wilder's themes amalgamate into one coherent combination of selfish, selfless characters. Everyone trying to ease their pains. Everyone going about it the wrong way. Until...

We will always fall in love with who we are actually are despite who we pretend to be.

Billy Wilder sees himself as this: a brilliant man hired for his skills who must hide who he really is. We must not be afraid to be truly seen.

Bleak portrait of the creative world. The spider entangles the fly. Madness.

To dramatize reality. To turn the truth into a spectacle. We make narratives out of our lives, destroying any chance for peace.

Men on a mission. Robert Altman could have made this, with less precise, visual set pieces. Holden was Fantastic Mr Fox.

The one that won the first Oscar. A little B-movie-ish, but few examinations of addiction are as immersive or personal.

Iconic. Sexual objectification is under the microscope. Desire, temptation. What better woman to use to examine such subject matter?

Simple, innocent. An aesthetic forming before your eyes.

A little too pulpy for its own good. Slick exchanges cover up passivity in characterization.

A wreck.