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Preminger, maker of classics like Anatomy of a Murder and bombs like the LSD-tinged Jackie Gleason vehicle Skidoo, was the archetype of the tyrannical Hollywood director. A cue-ball–headed bully who alternated icy sarcasm with frothing rages and had the sense of humor of a guillotine, Preminger calmed one jittery thespian by shaking him and screaming Relax! Relax! Relax! into his face. (In acting roles, Preminger was reliably cast as a Nazi.) Fujiwara's respectful but lively bio sticks closely to his subject's groundbreaking if sadistic creative process. Each chapter covers the making of a single movie, starting with Preminger's wrangles with screenwriters, meddling studio chiefs and Hollywood's prim Production Code, whose hold his risqué films helped break. Production starting brought the director's terrorization of cast and crew (Â 'Otto turned on me like a mad dog,'Â recalls Faye Dunaway), which drove actors of both sexes to hysterical tears—and, some admit, fine performances. Fujiwara's auteurist appreciations of Preminger's work tend toward abstract analyses of, say, the encounter and resistance of objects in space, but they arouse the reader's interest in revisiting his films. Photos. (Mar. 11)
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Preminger, maker of classics like Anatomy of a Murder and bombs like the LSD-tinged Jackie Gleason vehicle Skidoo, was the archetype of the tyrannical Hollywood director. A cue-ball–headed bully who alternated icy sarcasm with frothing rages and had the sense of humor of a guillotine, Preminger calmed one jittery thespian by shaking him and screaming Relax! Relax! Relax! into his face. (In acting roles, Preminger was reliably cast as a Nazi.) Fujiwara's respectful but lively bio sticks closely to his subject's groundbreaking if sadistic creative process. Each chapter covers the making of a single movie, starting with Preminger's wrangles with screenwriters, meddling studio chiefs and Hollywood's prim Production Code, whose hold his risqué films helped break. Production starting brought the director's terrorization of cast and crew (Â 'Otto turned on me like a mad dog,'Â recalls Faye Dunaway), which drove actors of both sexes to hysterical tears—and, some admit, fine performances. Fujiwara's auteurist appreciations of Preminger's work tend toward abstract analyses of, say, the encounter and resistance of objects in space, but they arouse the reader's interest in revisiting his films. Photos. (Mar. 11)
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“Chris Fujiwara is one of those rare viewers of cinema who combines immense breadth —has he seen everything?, one wonders in awe—with a sharpness and rigor of analytic insight. In this vein, Fujiwara offers up a compelling biography of Otto Preminger that is at the same time a wonderful close and critical investigation of the films themselves in all their complex detail. This is a rich, rewarding unique volume that sets the standard in the study of this key director in the history of American cinema.”—Dana Polan, Professor of Cinema Studies, New York University
“Famous for his courting of controversy and his volatile manners on the set, Otto Preminger was also a great and still underestimated American filmmaker. Chris Fujiwara, with a keen eye for cinematic detail and a sure grasp of the historical background, gives Preminger’s work the serious and subtle analysis it deserves.” —Geoffrey O’Brien , author of The Phantom Empire: Movies in the Mind of the Twentieth Century
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"One of our most perceptive writers about film."--Bob Stephens, San Francisco Examiner Magazine
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Otto Preminger's father, Markus Preminger, was born on January 15, 1877, in Czernowitz, the capital of Bukovina, then part of the Austrian Empire, and now in Ukraine (where it is called Chernivtsi). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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