When Luck Runs Out: Preston Sturges’ Gallic Swan Song
“I have always contended that in addition to talent, success depends on a little bit of luck, and my luck seemed to have run out, professionally at least.” –Preston Sturges, on the making of The French, They Are a Funny Race1


Cullen Gallagher is a freelance critic and curator whose writings have appeared in Moving Image Source, Not Coming to a Theater Near You, and The L Magazine. He lives in Brooklyn, NY and is pursuing an MA in Cinema Studies at New York University. 




