Question: Which film has the director who died earlier, Laura (1944 Film) or Beware Of A Holy Whore?

Otto Ludwig Preminger( 5 December 1905 – 23 April 1986) was an American theatre and film director, originally from Austria- Hungary. He directed more than 35 feature films in a five- decade career after leaving the theatre. He first gained attention for film noir mysteries such as" Laura"( 1944) and" Fallen Angel"( 1945), while in the 1950s and 1960s, he directed a number of high- profile adaptations of popular novels and stage works. Several of these later films pushed the boundaries of censorship by dealing with topics which were then taboo in Hollywood, such as drug addiction(" The Man with the Golden Arm", 1955), rape(" Anatomy of a Murder", 1959) and homosexuality(" Advise& Consent", 1962). He was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. He also had a few acting roles. <SEP> He is widely regarded as a prominent figure and catalyst of the New German Cinema movement. Rainer Werner Fassbinder( 31 May 1945 – 10 June 1982), sometimes credited as R. W. Fassbinder, was a West German filmmaker, actor, playwright, theatre director, composer, cinematographer, editor, and essayist. His first feature- length film was a gangster movie called" Love Is Colder Than Death"( 1969); he scored his first domestic commercial success with" The Merchant of Four Seasons"( 1972) and his first international success with( 1974), both of which are considered masterpieces by contemporary critics. Big- budget projects such as" Despair"( 1978)," Lili Marleen" and" Lola"( both 1981) followed. His greatest success came with" The Marriage of Maria Braun"( 1979), chronicling the rise and fall of a German woman in the wake of World War II. Other notable films include" The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant"( 1972)," Fox and His Friends"( 1975)," Satan's Brew"( 1976), and" Querelle"( 1982), all of which focused on gay and lesbian themes. Fassbinder died on 10 June 1982, at the age of 37, from a lethal cocktail of cocaine and barbiturates. Although his career lasted less than two decades, he was extremely prolific; by the time of his death, he had completed over forty feature films, two television series, three short films, four video productions, and twenty- four plays. <SEP> Holed up in a hotel with too much drink, drugs and time the cast and crew of a film are gradually disintegrating as they await the arrival of their director. Semi-autobiographical, the film was influenced by the shooting of the director's earlier "Whity" in Spain. Beware of a Holy Whore  is a 1971 West German drama film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder that features Lou Castel, Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla and Fassbinder himself. The film features music from Leonard Cohen's first album "Songs of Leonard Cohen" and from "Spooky Two" by Spooky Tooth, among others. <SEP> Ben Palmer is a British film and television director who is known for being the director of" Bo' Selecta" and" The Inbetweeners". <SEP> It stars Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews and Clifton Webb along with Vincent Price and Judith Anderson. The screenplay by Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein and Betty Reinhardt is based on the 1943 novel" Laura" by Vera Caspary. Laura is a 1944 American film noir produced and directed by Otto Preminger. In 1999," Laura" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The American Film Institute named it one of the 10 best mystery films of all time, and it also appears on Roger Ebert's" Great Movies" series. <SEP> Eddie Constantine( born Israël Constantine; October 29, 1913 – February 25, 1993) was an American actor and singer who spent his career working in Europe. He became well known for a series of French B movies in which he played secret agent Lemmy Caution and is may be best remembered for his role in Jean- Luc Godard's philosophical science fiction film" Alphaville"( 1965). Constantine also appeared in films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder( as himself in" Beware of a Holy Whore" 1971), Lars von Trier, and Mika Kaurismäki. He continued reprising the role of Lemmy Caution well into his 70s; his final appearance as the character was in Jean- Luc Godard's" Germany Year 90 Nine Zero"( 1991).