It's the dearly departed podcast, featuring your host, historian Scott Michaels and filmmaker Mike Dorsey.

So it's episode 21.

Here we are.

We just keep charging through them.

And today I think we're doing your favorite movie, right?

Yes, absolutely.

I think the greatest movie ever made personally.

That's for me.

Yeah, Sunset Boulevard.

I don't know that this number one for me, but it's definitely top 10, maybe top five.

And I watched it again last night, and it's just one of those films that's amazing from beginning to end.

Like, none of it's wrong.

I know, right?

It is like everything that is terrible about Hollywood,

and yet wonderful. And, uh, and so got it. It's just, you know, I was, I was, uh, I was reading

one of the reviews on this thing. And, uh, and this guy had it down. If you don't mind,

I mean, before we get into this, I just want to read this.

It was, his name is Richard Coralus. He's a film writer, and he describes it. He says it's the

definitive Hollywood horror movie, noting that almost everything in the script is ghoulish. He remarks

that the story is narrated by a dead man whom Norma Desmond first mistakes

for an undertaker while most of the film takes place in an old dark house that only opens its

doors to the living dead. He equates Max with like the phantom of the opera. Norma Desmond is like

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