12019-02-04T19:18:29+00:00Patrick Keatingfdfdb363527b48ac29800c3d2a6f44da6939bc3b11Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)plain2019-02-04T19:18:29+00:00Critical Commons19502019-02-01T19:47:51ZVideoOtto PremingerWhere the Sidewalk EndsPatrick Keatingfdfdb363527b48ac29800c3d2a6f44da6939bc3b
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12019-02-04T19:43:29+00:005.x15 Where the Sidewalk Ends1Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)plain2019-02-04T19:43:29+00:00Most Hollywood filmmakers would ask the actor playing the protagonist to give an expressive performance; then they would photograph that performance in close-up. Preminger asked his leading man to give an inexpressive performance, and then he stuck him in the back of the room while the camera followed other characters around. This is what Preminger’s detachment looks like: not static, not removed, but mobile in counterintuitive ways, fighting against our urge to watch the protagonist by giving other characters more compositional weight.