TCM Party screens Sunset Boulevard for 'Summer of Darkness'

can't stomach the news, so I'm watching william Holden and Gloria Swanson in sunset boulevard on tcm.

As the redo of the White House Correspondents Dinner gets underway, TCM is showing “Sunset Boulevard.”

That long-ish shot of Norma coming down the staircase is one of my all-time favorite shots in any film ever. #SunsetBoulevard #SummerOfDarkness #TCMParty

The original film began—and ended—in the Los Angeles morgue. Joe’s corpse chatted with other bodies until preview audiences laughed, prompting a six-month delay and a replacement opening. #TCMParty #SunsetBoulevard ^JW #SummerOfDarkness

Gloria Swanson gives IMHO the greatest female lead performance in cinema in #SunsetBoulevard. We do not pity Norma Desmond. We have empathy for her because the world and the industry has discarded her. Her pain feels so raw. No false notes in the performance. An absolute masterclass! #TCMParty

#SunsetBoulevard , ‘Double Indemnity’, ‘Out of the Past’, and ‘Laura’ are on my pre 1970 New Hollywood Film Noir Mt. Rushmore. #TCMParty

I worked at Paramount once, and had the oddest sensation. I saw a screening on the lot of "Sunset Boulevard" for a friend's birthday, sitting in the SAME screening room that Gloria Swanson watches a movie projected in within the film. Very weirdly meta. #SunsetBoulevard #SummerOfDarkness #TCMParty

I think about being an Academy voter in 1950 sometimes. This performance AND Bette in ALL ABOUT EVE. #TCMParty #SunsetBoulevard

TCM’s Summer of Darkness won’t get more “A-picture” than SUNSET BOULEVARD, tonight’s leadoff film. But stay tuned, afterward, for one of the great under-appreciated noirs. A bleak tale of adultery and murder, THE PROWLER pulls no punches and avoids cop-out endings. #TCMParty

Gotta keep the fan fiction going this last Friday of The #SummerOfDarkness #TheProwler #TCMParty

#ComingUpOnTCM SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950) Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Erich von Stroheim Dir.: Billy Wilder 5:00 PM PT A failed screenwriter falls into a mercenary romance with a faded silent-film star. 1h 51m | Drama | TV-PG #TCM #TCMParty

Deluded men and women star in this #SummerOfDarkness installment on @tcmtv.bsky.social There’s The Prowler, The Killing and Billy Wilder’s masterpiece Sunset Boulevard from 1950. Gloria Swanson eyes a return to the movies with William Holden’s help. For a price. Paramount. #FilmNoir #TCMParty

Tonight: Sunset Boulevard + a Corpse Reviver No. 2. A movie narrated by a dead man in a pool needs a drink named for raising the dead. ¾ oz each gin, Cointreau, Lillet, lemon; shake, strain into an absinthe-rinsed coupe. #TCMParty #SummerOfDarkness

Can I tell you a dirty secret? I’ve never seen #SunsetBoulevard before! #SummerOfDarkness #TCMParty 🕵️‍♂️🍸

so you guys are commenting on this cluttered old house. What's wrong with it? I mean I love the look here. The floors are awesome. Big solid furniture. Crazy old woman in a turban. Dead monkey. Cecil B deMille serving drinks. #Goals #TCMParty #SunsetBoulevard