... doing a comic duo routine the equal of Laurel and Hardy or Abbott and Costello; OttoPreminger (the erstwhile actor and well-known director [ Laura, River of No Return , The Man With the Golden Arm , Bonjour Tristesse , Anatomy of a Murder , Exodus , Advice and Consent , In Harm's Way ] as the German camp commandant; Gil Stratton as Sefton's [Holden's] errand boy, who does the voice-over...
Sometimes, a film creates a world you wish you could simply step into. For me, it's the dark opulence OttoPreminger conjured up for Laura. Now, over to you The demented vistas of Ken Russell; the stinking, claustrophobic U-boat horror of Das Boot. Off the top of the head, most of us could come up with any number of films in whose physical reality we'd rather not find ourselves. Of course,...
... among other treats. This near-winter season I have the luck to catch a number of Alain Resnais and OttoPreminger films as well as four by Miklós Jancsó and a slew of features starring Ingrid Bergman . However, this go-round I hope to expand my horizons and attend both of the remaining Alternative Visions programs: next week, on November 10th there will be a series of...
... of The Lodger , The Locket , and Hangover Square was a Reinhardt alumnus. John Brahm So was OttoPreminger, not a filmmaker of Fantasy, but definetly a ground-breaker when it came to sex, race, drugs, Black-Listing. Plus he directed the archtypal Laura . Mr. Freeze says “ Where’s Dorothy Dandridge?” And Edgar G. Ulmer labored in the Art Department for Reinhardt. He directed the Bauhaus...
