Saul Bass & Otto Preminger: How a Great Graphic Designer Can Elevate a Middling Filmmaker
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
The Film Forum in NY is doing a retrospective of Otto Preminger‘s work and I have to say that it’s a dubious enterprise. Watching The Man with the Golden Arm once again confirmed to me that his reputation of the maverick and auteur, rests very heavily on a series of poses and presumptions that his films made as being outre, modernist pieces of film art. The reality, for me, is that Preminger, with very few exceptions (like Laura), was firmly of the second rank of directors aping everyone from his fellow Germans, like Von Stroheim to William Wyler to Orson Welles. (more…)
