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Laura

Laura

Otto Preminger’s powerful, psycho-dramatic noir returns to the big screen

(5 stars)1 Mar 2012

(PG) 88min This, the first of a run of terrific film noirs that established and cemented Otto Preminger’s reputation as one of the greatest filmmakers to work in Hollywood during the post-war period, is, arguably, the European émigré’s very best.

Best DVD releases of 2009

Best DVD releases of 2009

17 Dec 2009

Kenneth Anger: Magick Lantern Cycle His satanic majesty’s maddest and most brilliant experimental filmworks in extras heavy set. Boom! Bizarre 1968 Tennessee Williams adaptation starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton and directed by the…

The Film Noir Collection

The Film Noir Collection

(4 stars)10 Nov 2009

(12) 375min (BFI DVD retail) Having come to America in 1936 to direct his first love, theatre, on Broadway, Otto Preminger became one of Hollywood’s top filmmakers following the success of his 1944 film noir, Laura. Although the notoriously…

The Fan

The Fan

(4 stars)22 Jan 2009

COMEDY Disliked by its director and indifferently received both critically and commercially when first released in 1949, Otto Preminger’s 1949 adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s celebrated play Lady Windermere’s Fan is long overdue for reappraisal. It’s…

Angel Face

Angel Face

(4 stars)7 Aug 2008

THRILLER (PG) 91min (Blackhorse DVD retail) Otto Preminger’s complex and clever 1952 film noir about how salt of the earth ambulance driver Frank (Robert Mitchum) becomes mixed up with femme fatale Diane Tremayne (Jean Simmons) is certainly something…

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