What’s colder than an igloo made from icy Kubricks? Otto Preminger’s oeuvre! Why else was the director the perfect choice to play Batman’s hyperboreal nemesis, Mr. Freeze? In best-selling author ...

Maybe it’s hard to recall now, in our niche-marketed age of YouTube auteurs, but there was a time when Hollywood directors owned popular personas that were more akin to what culture today expects from ...

Otto Preminger must hold some sort of record for one of the longest stretches of provocative and intelligent mainstream filmmaking in American cinema. Proclaimed an auteur by the Cahiers du Cinéma ...

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 ...

Thanks to the Nazi roles he played in “Stalag 17” and other movies, Polish-born Otto Preminger was more recognizable than most film directors. But his reputation as an off-screen tyrant has often ...