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- ARTICLESAngel 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 - ARTICLESPhase 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 - ARTICLESSingapore 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 - ARTICLESOn 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 - ARTICLESFrank 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 - ARTICLESLike 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 - ARTICLESFilm 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 - ARTICLESThe 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 - ARTICLESThoughts 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…
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