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FILM COMMENT
November/December 2002
IMPOSSIBLE CINEMA: JOHN FRANKENHEIMER
By Richard Combs
It is easy enough to assess the cinema of John Frankenheimer. What is harder, and stranger, is to account for it, to come to terms with the obviousness and shadowiness of it, the self-assertion and self-immolation of it. Where did Frankenheimer come from and where did he go to? How is it that John Frankenheimer's brilliant career was over before it actually started? Richard Combs explains.
© 2002 by Richard Combs
You can read the complete version of this article in the November/December print edition of Film Comment.
