Smog

The earliest work by Wolfgang Petersen that I could find, Smog is a procedural without much of an end goal, a vision of government overreach that doesn’t seem to do anything effective in a crisis, and an issue movie about pollution from the early 70s. It has no real characters, as many procedural movies often…

Wolfgang Petersen: A Statement of Purpose

I think I've done more Germanic filmmakers than any other European country. Which is not what I would have expected to do when I started this whole thing. I would have guessed French. Well, add another one! Another German import to America, Wolfgang Petersen became known for some big-budget actions spectacles in the 80s and…

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ANOTHER Movie Channel Presents: Akira Kurosawa – The Definitive Ranking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKRy-VbG_s4 Ranking, bruh. Definitive, bruh. Samurai, bruh. Like, subscribe, comment, bruh.

Otto Preminger: The Definitive Ranking

I don't really know what I was expecting from Otto Preminger. Accomplished and composed chameleon? Perhaps someone with thematic obsessions rather than visual ones? The kind of filmmaker dismissed because his connective tissue was textual, not stylistic? Well, I got a mess, that's what I got. Preminger came from a theater background and learned the…