Title: John Frankenheimer : interviews, essays, and profiles /
Authors: Armstrong, Stephen B.
Year: 2013
Subjects: Frankenheimer, John, Interviews.; Frankenheimer, John, Criticism and interpretation.; Motion picture producers and directors United States Interviews; Television producers and directors United States Interviews.
Abstract: "John Frankenheimer's career as a professional director began and ended in television. In the mid-1950s, he won acclaim working on live productions for anthology series like Playhouse 90, and from the mid-1990s until his death in 2002 he helmed a string of Emmy-winning features for cable TV, including The Burning Season (1994) and Andersonville (1996). Despite these successes, Frankenheimer's reputation rests primarily upon the nearly thirty feature films he directed, which range from bona fide classics like Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) and The Manchurian Candidate (1962) to such lesser achievements as Prophecy (1979) and Dead Bang (1989). Unfortunately for Frankenheimer, the discrepancy between his best films and his worst led many critics during his lifetime to dismiss him as someone whose talent dissipated in the late 1960s.^
Contents: Part 1: Frankenheimer on Frankenheimer. John Frankenheimer: Little to big screen (1961) / John Cutts ; On screen: John Frankenheimer (1963) / C. Robert Jennings ; Seven ways with seven days in May (1964) / John Frankenheimer ; Criticism as creation (1964) / John Frankenheimer ; John Frankenheimer (1969) / Charles Higham and Joel Greenberg ; The gypsy moths--sky daredevils! (1969) / Uncredited ; John Frankenheimer (1970) / Russell AuWerter ; Filming the iceman cometh (1974) / John Frankenheimer ; John Frankenheimer: An interview (1977) / Gary D. Engle ; John Frankenheimer speaks to Ralph Appelbaum (1979) / Ralph Appelbaum ; John Frankenheimer (1983) / Pat Broeske ; Frankenheimer says casting is the key (1986) / Jerry Roberts ; Dialogue on film: John Frankenheimer (1989) / Uncredited ; The grand prix circus: Hollywood style (1992) / Peter Dick ; John Frankenheimer: Shooting Against The Wall (1994) / Gerald Pratley ; The burning season of John Frankenheimer: Four decades of directing (1994) / Mary Hardesty ; The Manchurian candidate (1995) / Charles Champlin ; Hollywood survivor John Frankenheimer (1996) Tim Rhys with Ian Bage ; Ad Lib: John Frankenheimer (1997) / Charles Chaplin ; The Train (1998) / Gerald Pratley ; John Frankenheimer: Renaissance auteur (1998) / Alex Simon ; The films of John Frankenheimer (1999) / Robert J. Emery ; John Frankenheimer (2000) / Scott Tobias ; Against the wall (2000) / Robert Wilonsky ; John Frankenheimer (2000) / F. Anthony Macklin ; Frankenheimer knew period's main players (2002) / Hugh Hart. -- Part 2: Colleagues and family. Roy Scheider and 52 Pick-up (1992) / Kirk Honeycutt ; Pete Hamill: French Connection II (2006) / Stephen B. Armstrong ; "He loved what he did so much!" An interview with Evans (Evans Frankenheimer (2010) / Murray Pomerance ; John R. Leonetti: Working with Frankenheimer (2012) / Stephen B. Armstrong ; Tim Reid: Dead Bang and The Forth War (2012) / Stephen B. Armstrong.