The film is about an aging silent film star (Gloria Swanson) who, when talkies begin to rise, doesn’t want to accept her fate of an ending career. Lynch’s films often have a dark comedy element to his films, so Sunset Boulevard makes sense why it’d be on his list.
Billy Wilder’s 1950 classic Sunset Boulevard is a film-noir black comedy and the second on Lynch’s top 5 list.
