Season Finale: Sunset Boulevard & How We All Became Norma Desmond Cinema Rising

For this season finale, we break format to pair a film, not with another film, but with a concept. Pushing the structure of a double-feature podcast to breaking point, we look at Billy Wilder's 1950 noir classic, then look at how contemporary film culture has transformed us all into a strange version of Gloria Swanson's iconic femme fatale - Norma Desmond.Desmond lives in a memory palace built from her years of stardom, fruitlessly longing for another moment in the spotlight, desperate ...