Film International, January 1st, 2004
What's Preminger to us today?
THIRTY-SEVEN MOVIES, OF WHICH one half a dozen are among the most wonderful ever made according to some people, a different half dozen according to other people, and none at all according to yet other people. Thus the question.
Otto Preminger was a promiscuous lover, forever deceiving his most ardent disciples. Like Roberto Rossellini, whom he resembles in many ways. Born a year apart, 1905 and 1906, they achieved fame a year apart with Laura (1944) and Roma cità aperta (1945). And no sonner were they canonized for one sort of cinema (in Preminger's case, a ser...
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