The Man with the Golden Arm Rachel Brown March 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film Two years after his censorship battle over The Moon is Blue (1953), Otto Preminger again provoked the censors with his 1955 film The Man with the Golden Arm. A significant film from Preminger’s middle-career, T...
Anatomy of a Murder John Fidler March 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film In an interview with his fellow filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich, Otto Preminger speaks of the influence of the law on his life and work. Preminger’s father was a District Attorney and Attorney General for the Austr...
Laura: Noir of Identity and Illusion Matthew Sorrento February 2013 Feature Articles In Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity (1944), the murder of Tom Powers’ character is built up through the two lovers/killers’ plans. And yet the scheme could be all talk if it weren’t for the opening confession of...
“Kissin’ the Breeze Goodbye”: Otto Preminger and Carmen Jones David Melville February 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film Once upon a time – this is a true story – there was a poor old woman who loved opera to death, and who probably was not rich enough to afford herself the luxury of a whole production. Consequently, throughout h...
Otto Preminger and the End of Classical Cinema John Orr July 2006 Special Dossiers, Three Auteurs One of Hollywood’s finest exponents of mise en scène, Preminger, it can justly be argued, is instrumental in defining the transition from classical to modernist cinema.