Agradoot and Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder

Bridging the transition between the studio system and the rise of independent producer-directors, and still active in the 'New Hollywood' era, Billy Wilder was a key player in the American cinema throughout the postwar period. A '30s screenwriter who became a contract director in the '40s, by 1950 Wilder had come to be regarded as a consummate studio auteur. Producing from the mid-1950s, he and his co-screenwriters were renowned in front office and fan magazine for making money, teasing audience sensibilities, and pleasing the critics. If the early-1960s saw a critical downturn, by the mid-1970s Wilder's reputation led to accolades and awards.( From sensesofcinema)

Filmography

Films directed by Wilder:

Mauvaise Graine (Bad Seed) (1933, Co-director)


The Major and the Minor (1942, also Co-screenwriter)

Five Graves to Cairo (1943, also Co-screenwriter)

Double Indemnity (1944, also Co-screenwriter)

The Lost Weekend (1945, also Co-screenwriter)

The Emperor Waltz (1947, also Co-screenwriter)

A Foreign Affair (1948, also Co-screenwriter)

Sunset Boulevard (1950, also Co-screenwriter)

Ace in the Hole (The Big Carnival) (1951, also Producer & Co-screenwriter)


Sunset Boulevard

Stalag 17 (1953, also Producer & Co-screenwriter)

Sabrina (Sabrina Fair) (1954, also Producer & Co screenwriter)

The Seven Year Itch (1955, also co-Producer/Director/Co-screenwriter)

The Spirit of St. Louis (1957, also Co-screenwriter)

Love in the Afternoon (1957, also Producer & Co-screenwriter)

Witness for the Prosecution (1958, also Co-screenwriter)

Some Like it Hot (1959, also Producer & Co-screenwriter)

The Apartment (1960, also Producer & Co-screenwriter)

One, Two, Three (1961, also Producer & Co-screenwriter)

Irma La Douce (1963, also Producer & Co-screenwriter)

Kiss Me, Stupid (1964, also Producer & Co-screenwriter)

The Fortune Cookie (Meet Whiplash Willie) (1966, also Producer & Co-screenwriter)

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970, also Producer & Co-screenwriter)

Avanti! (1972, also Producer & Co-screenwriter)

The Front Page (1974, also Co-screenwriter)

Fedora (1978, also Producer & Co-screenwriter)

Buddy Buddy (1981, also Co-screenwriter)
AGRADOOT

Best-known instance of phenomenon unique to Bengali cinema: group of film technicians signing collectively as director . The Agradoot core unit , formed in 1946 , consisted initially of Bibhuti Laha ( cameraman born in 1915 ), Jatin Datta ( sound), Sailen Ghosal ( Lab work), Nitai Bhattacharya ( Scenarist) and Bimal Ghosh ( productiion).

Filmography :
1-Aparenher Alo (1989)
2- Surya Sakhi ( 1981)
3-Din Amader (1977)
4-Sonar Khancha (1973)
5-Sonar Khancha (1973)
6 -Chhadmabeshi (1971)
7- Manjari Opera (1970)
8- Chirandiner ( 1969)
9- Kokhono Megh ( 1968)
10- Nayika sangbad (1967)
11-Antaral ( 1965 )
12- Surya tapa (1965 )
13- Tapasi ( 1965)
14- Badsha ( 1963)
15- Uttarayan ( 1963)
16-Bipasha ( 1962)
17- Nav Diganta ( 1962)
18- Agni Sanskar ( 1961)
19-Khola Babur Pratyabartan (1960)
20-Kuhak ( 1960 )
21- Lalu Bhulu ( 1959)
22- Surya Toran (1959)
23- Pathey Holo Deri ( 1957)
24-Trijama (1956)
25- Sabar Uparey ( 1955)
26-Agni Pariksha ( 1954)
27- Anupama ( 1954)
28-Aandi (1952)
29-Babla (1951)
30-Sahajatri (1951)
31- Sabyasachi (1948)
32-Samapika (1948)
33-Sankalpa (1948)
34-Swapna -o-Sadhana (1947)