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You can watch Billy Wilder Speaks (2006) for free on Kanopy.

In 1988, German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff sat down with legendary director Billy Wilder (1906-2002) at his office in Beverly Hills, California, and turned on his camera for a series of filmed interviews. (A recut of the 1992 TV miniseries Billy, How Did You Do It?)

Billy Wilder Speaks is a film that explores themes of cinema on cinema, movie business, cinema history. It also touches on portrait of an artist and old hollywood and hollywood history.