Word: wilderness
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...Wilder was born in what is now Poland in 1906. His writing career first began in Berlin in the late 1920s. After writing as a journalist for the German tabloids, Wilder turned to screenplays. During the rise of Hitler, Wilder, who was Jewish, fled from Berlin to Paris. When he left Paris for the United States in 1933, he landed fortuitously in Hollywood...
...Wilder had his first commercial success with the comedy “Ninotchka,” a film that garnered his first Academy Award nomination and starred Greta Garbo. Wilder is credited with pioneering the genre of film noir with “Double Indemnity,” a 1944 collaboration with vaunted noir novelist Raymond Chandler...
...films being shown at the series, a short piece called “Death Mills,” was found in a defunct military base outside of Boston. There were no credits on the piece to identify Wilder as its creator. An anti-Nazi propaganda piece made for the U.S. Office of War Information, the short was recently traced to Wilder when an interview was discovered in which he mentioned the film...
...profound influence upon his work. One of the films being shown in the series, “Five Graves to Cairo,” is a thriller that examines the conflicts of World War II within the verbal skirmishes between two military officers. “Here Wilder addresses the issue of the German camps of genocide, but it is done in a very comic way,” says Tom Conley, Lowell professor of Romance languages and literatures...
...pointed out that Wilder’s better-known films such as “The Apartment” or “Sunset Boulevard” are frequently shown in art theatres around the country, but most audiences have no opportunity to see his more obscure films. The Wilder Centennial seeks to expose viewers to Wilder films that they’ve never seen before...