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Articles Singapore Sling: Postmodern Noir, Narrative, and Destructive Desire
…repeated references to Otto Preminger’s 1944 noir Laura, in which Detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) investigates the apparent murder of a beautiful young woman named Laura (Gene Tierney), only to become infatuated with her through her portrait and the fond recollections of the two men who loved her—both of whom…
October 31st, 2007
Articles Bunny Lake is Missing (Otto Preminger, 1965)
…it to director Otto Preminger. By all accounts, he might have been an absolutely intolerant monster, but was he ever up for transgressing the boundaries of acceptable taste (with the notion of ‘breaking through’ reinforced right with the cheeky opening credit sequence, designed by much-celebrated genius designer Saul Bass, in…
December 22nd, 2021
Articles Angel Face (Otto Preminger, 1953)
…Lang, a sprinkle of Preminger and Ray and voilà!), at least they picked all cream from what was an abundantly fertile genre crop (or perhaps ‘stylistic’ crop, rather than ‘genre’ – depends on which noir scholar you ask), a period of (mostly American/Hollywood) filmmaking that as important a filmmaker (and…
December 11th, 2017
Articles Alfred Hitchcock and the Moving Camera: Authorship, Style, and Declarative Aesthetics
…the films of Otto Preminger, in advancing the claim that Preminger’s cinema is a resoundingly moral cinema, in which he uses his camera to pronounce judgment on immoral characters from Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb) in Laura (1944) and David Korvo (José Ferrer) in Whirlpool (1950) to Cécile (Jean Seberg) in…
March 28th, 2023
Articles NOIR CITY INTERNATIONAL: the 18th Annual San Francisco Film Noir Festival, 24 January – 2 February, 2020, “It’s a bitter little world”. Part 1
…Maltese Falcon [1941], Otto Preminger’s Laura, Edward Dmytryk’s Murder, My Sweet, Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity, and Fritz Lang’s The Woman in the Window [all, 1944].” [[Raymond Borde and Étienne Chaumeton, “Towards a Definition of film noir,” translated from the French by Alain Silver, from Panorama du Film Noir Américain [Les…
July 31st, 2020
Articles Frank Sinatra: Jazz Actor
…the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger, 1955); the sadistic gunman of Johnny Concho (Don McGuire, 1956); the egoistic nightclub performer in Pal Joey (George Sidney, 1957); the war-scarred soldiers and veterans of Never So Few (John Sturges, 1959); Some Came Running (Vincente Minnelli, 1958); Ocean’s Eleven Lewis Milestone, 1960); and The…
December 31st, 2024
Articles Can Directors Still Have Long-Term Careers in Theatrical Motion Pictures?
…Kazan, Vincente Minnelli, Otto Preminger, Orson Welles, Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann. A random list of titles made by these talents includes classics like Gaslight, Born Yesterday, A Star Is Born (1954), Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, The Searchers, Kiss of Death, True Grit, The…
July 31st, 2024
Articles Thoughts of a Dry Brain in a Dry Season: Woody Allen’s Melinda & Melinda (and Crash, Mysterious Skin, and Eros, featuring Antonioni and Wong Kar-Wai)
…Billy Wilder and Otto Preminger; playwrights Lillian Hellman, Arthur Miller, David Mamet, and Wendy Wasserstein; visual artists Ben Shahn, Lee Krasner, Roy Lichtenstein, Peter Max, Louise Nevelson, Larry Rivers, Julian Schnabel; musicians Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schonberg; writers Arnold Schnitzler, Franz Kafka, Saul Bellow, Jane Bowles, Nathanael West; poets Joseph…
April 30th, 2005
Articles Film Noir: A Study in Narrative Openings, Part 2
…(Interspersed Flashbacks) Laura (Otto Preminger, 1944) Length of Opening: 5’39” The film begins with the voice-over of Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb), narrating in flashback mode: “I will never forget the weekend Laura died. A silver sun burned through the sky like a huge magnifying glass. It was the hottest Sunday…
October 31st, 2007
Articles Frank Henenlotter: From Basket Case to Bad Biology
…that I like Otto Preminger [an off-interview comment]. That’s where it is. My favorite shot I’ve ever done was in Basket Case. A dialogue scene with Dwayne where we did 17 dolly moves while he was talking. I spend all morning rehearsing and shooting but when we were done we…
November 30th, 2008
Articles On African-American Women in Film, in Eve’s Bayou, For Colored Girls, The Help, and Love & Basketball
…was Myrt in Otto Preminger’s Carmen Jones (1954) starring Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte, and Diahann Carroll starred with Sidney Poitier, Paul Newman, and Joanne Woodward in Martin Ritt’s Paris Blues (1961), and she played a working mother, the title character, opposite James Earl Jones in Claudine (1974), an honest,…
October 31st, 2013
Articles The Girl Rebel, the Glamorous Woman: Ava DuVernay’s film of a woman’s independence, love, loss, and memory, I Will Follow
…was featured in Otto Preminger’s 1954 film treatment of the Hammerstein-Rogers musical play based on Bizet’s ninetieth-century opera, transposed to black life: Carmen Jones. The title character is a flirt, stringing several men along. Was she using the only kind of power she had, the power of sex? Has the…
October 31st, 2013
Articles Like a Charm
…the Golden Arm [Otto Preminger, 1955]), incest (Through a Glass Darkly [Ingmar Bergman, 1961]), the Holocaust (The Pawnbroker [Sidney Lumet, 1964]), marital antipathy (__Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf_ [Mike Nichols, 1966]), homosexuality (Reflections in a Golden Eye [John Huston, 1967]), and graphic bloodshed (The Wild Bunch [Sam Peckinpah, 1969]). Of…
November 30th, 2015
Articles Phase IV (Saul Bass, 1974)
…by heroin-needles for Otto Preminger’s The Man With the Golden Arm and the penetrating lines slashing through each opening title of Hitchcock’s Psycho (merging perfectly with Bernard Herman’s so-classic-its-been-seared-into-the-popular-zeitgeist suspense-driven strings), as well as apparently having been a main cog behind the shooting of that same film’s seminal shower scene…
October 17th, 2017