Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

James Ellroy, the two-fisted author behind such crime novels as L.A. Confidential and Black Dahlia, is making a rare foray into film. Fox 2000 has signed the author to write a remake of Laura, the ...

This adaptation of Vera Caspary's suspense novel was begun by director Rouben Mamoulien and cinematographer Lucien Ballard, but thanks to a complex series of backstage intrigues and hostilities, the ...

It’s a story that has kept film and theater audiences on the edges of their seats for more than 60 years: A hard-boiled New York detective finds himself falling for the woman whose murder he is ...

The story goes that once, at a Los Angeles social gathering in the 1940s, Otto Preminger came across a group of Hungarian émigrés chatting in their native tongue. “This is Hollywood,” Preminger chided ...

Otto Preminger, perhaps the most publicly recognizable director of the 1950s after Alfred Hitchcock, has seen his reputation decline drastically since his death in 1986. Today he’s often unfairly ...

Victoria Preminger, daughter of director Otto Preminger, died Feb. 7 in Studio City, Calif. following a fall at home. She was 63. Her mother was actress Hope Bryce Preminger and her uncle was film ...

ROME — The 65th Locarno Film Festival will celebrate Otto Preminger with a complete retro of the work of the maverick Hollywood helmer with European roots. About 40 of his features will screen in the ...

FRANKFURT — Otto Preminger, controversial Hollywood producer, is looking for a 15-yearold German girl to play one of the major roles in his forthcoming motion picture "Exodus." "She can be known or ...