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Every week, the editors of\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review\u00a0lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine\u2019s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday by\u00a0signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Billy Wilder.<\/p><\/div>\n

This week at The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re watching some flicks, some pictures, some movies. Read on for Billy Wilder\u2019s Art of Screenwriting interview<\/a>, Hernan Diaz\u2019s short story \u201cThe Stay<\/a>,\u201d and Chase Twichell\u2019s poem \u201cBad Movie, Bad Audience<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you enjoy these free interviews, stories, and poems, why not\u00a0subscribe<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0The Paris Review<\/em>\u00a0and read the entire archive? You\u2019ll also get four new issues of the quarterly delivered straight to your door. And don\u2019t forget to listen to\u00a0Season 2<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0The Paris Review Podcast<\/em>!<\/p>\n

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Billy Wilder, The Art of Screenwriting No. 1<\/a>
\nIssue no. 138 (Spring 1996)<\/em><\/p>\n

I used stars wherever I could in Sunset Boulevard \u2026 The picture industry was only fifty or sixty years old, so some of the original people were still around. Because old Hollywood was dead, these people weren\u2019t exactly busy. They had the time, got some money, a little recognition. They were delighted to do it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Stay<\/a>
\nBy Hernan Diaz
\nIssue no. 227 (Winter 2018)<\/em><\/p>\n

I decided to go to the movies. I didn\u2019t really care what was playing; I just wanted the sense of relief when the lights fade out and the world dissolves, the slight confusion when they are turned back up and it reassembles itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Bad Movie, Bad Audience<\/a>
\nBy Chase Twichell
\nIssue no. 124 (Fall 1992)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2026\u2009In our ears the turbo revs,
\nthe cheekbone cracks,
\na stocking slithers to the floor.
\nCocteau said film is death at work.
\nOut of the twilight a small voice
\nhisses shut up, just shut the fuck up.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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