Otto Preminger, perhaps the most publicly recognizable director of the 1950s after Alfred Hitchcock, has seen his reputation decline drastically since his death in 1986. Today he’s often unfairly ...
Otto Preminger’s primary problem was that every self-aggrandizing publicity campaign, every outlandishly elongated two-and-a-half-hour movie, implied he was a genius when in fact he only possessed ...
Nothing about filmmaker Otto Preminger was small, trivial, or self-denying. In his new biography, "Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would be King" (Knopf), Foster Hirsch gives readers a full account of the ...
A new restoration undertaken by the Academy Film Archive and Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation will screen this weekend at the 12th annual Cinema Revival Film Festival. One of the best films screening ...
Film professor Foster Hirsch has written an excellent look at the life and work of director-producer Otto Preminger. The first full-scale biography of the Polish-born, Vienna-raised auteur of such ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the best films screening at this year’s festival is also one that was seriously underrated and misunderstood by both the ...