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Article: The screwball social studies of Preston Sturges: laugh it up. With most of his key films now available on DVD, the singular comic artistry of writer-director Preston Sturges has reemerged.
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- June 22, 2006
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Preston Sturges's achievement as a filmmaker is so substantial and lasting, his entrance onto the scene so assured and meteoric, and his production at his peak so feverishly inventive, it's difficult to believe that his career as a director is almost entirely encapsulated by a single decade--only his final film, les Carnets du major Thompson, made in France in 1957, lies outside the Forties. The abruptness with which his productivity was snuffed out is as shocking as it is tragic--like the individual movies, his career erupted as if in media res, careened wildly and chaotically through the Forties, and screeched to a halt by decade's end. Of course artistic careers are ...