Podcast: why Billy Wilder may have been more important than Alfred Hitchcock.

What does Billy Wilder have to do with Mad Men and Breaking Bad? Or with a football team in a cave? Everything, it turns out. The filmmaker, who died in 2002, appears to be far, far more important to our visual culture than someone like Alfred Hitchcock. At least: it is beginning to look very much like that. Eye, the striking film theatre and museum in Amsterdam, is from now until early September dedicated to the maker of Some Like it Hot and - especially - Sunset Boulevard.

For the Culture Press Podcast, Helen Westerik talks to Leo van Hee. He is Eye's programmer and curator of the Billy Wilder retrospective. from him, we hear why a famous writer like Raymond Chandler got drunk from Wilder, and what went on in Albuquerque that was so important for entire generations of film and television makers.

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Listen in, to a writer who made films that were at least as beautiful to listen to as they were to watch. The podcast can also be heard on platforms such as Spotify, Apple Podcast and Google Podcasts

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Until early September at Eye, Amsterdam. Information.