Sentences with phrase «main cinematic inspiration»

Wilder's main cinematic inspiration here, besides Vidor, Ernst Lubitsch and some of Billy's fellow expatriate noir - masters, was David Lean's and Noel Coward's peerless 1945 extramarital romance «Brief Encounter,» starring Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson, who have a chance to rendezvous in a friend's pad but don't end up doing so.