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BILLY, HOW DID YOU DO IT? Director Volker Schlöndorff introduces his documentary on Billy Wilder

  • Sunday, September 23 at 11:00am

$7 Member | $12.50 Regular

BILLY, HOW DID YOU DO IT? Director Volker Schlöndorff introduces his documentary on Billy Wilder

(1992) “How Would Lubitsch Have Done It?” read a sign in Billy Wilder’s Hollywood office. In 1988, director Volker Schlöndorff (see The Tin Drum, September 21-27) began to wonder the same thing about Wilder himself and commenced two weeks of non-stop videotaped conversation with his friend — a virtual anecdote-a-thon conducted in English, German and back to English. The result was this 3-hour documentary that Wilder would deem “not dignified enough” — he nixed showings in his lifetime. Mr. Schlöndorff will introduce this rare screening of the complete version (a truncated home video version runs only 72 minutes and deletes all of the German in the interview!). 1:00

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