RiverRun and UNCSA are proud to mark the 75th anniversary of Billy Wilder’s legendary Sunset Boulevard with a screening of the newly restored print followed by a conversation with Wake Forest professor emeritus David Lubin and Dale Pollock, former dean of UNCSA’s School of Filmmaking. At the close of the event, Lubin will sign copies of his widely acclaimed new book, Ready for My Close-Up: The Making of “Sunset Boulevard” and the Dark Side of the Hollywood Dream.

Ready for My Close-Up has been featured in People, The Wall Street Journal, CBS Saturday Morning, and NPR’s All Things Considered. Reviewers have called it a “page-turner” that “unfolds with the excitement of a novel.”

Professor Lubin, a renowned art historian with eight books to his name, has lectured throughout the world. Dale Pollock produced ten Hollywood films before accepting the deanship of the School of Filmmaking.

The new print of Sunset Boulevard has been meticulously restored in 4K, a process that surpasses HD and Full HD in providing a remarkable degree of sharpness and clarity. This is a rare opportunity to watch Sunset Boulevard on a large screen, as it was meant to be seen, and to hear two noted film historians explain how it came to be and why it remains one of the greatest Hollywood films ever made.