The Human Factor

#32 in my ranking of Otto Preminger's films. Otto Preminger reunites, sort of, with Graham Greene, who wrote Saint Joan, through Tom Stoppard to adapt The Human Factor to the screen. And it’s as dull as one would expect very late stage Preminger to be. Sort of a John le Care spycraft tale, Preminger brings…

Rosebud

#36 in my ranking of Otto Preminger's films. For a guy making movies since Orson Welles made Citizen Kane, it is really weird that Otto Preminger would allow the title of Rosebud to make it all the way through. That invites some kind of connection that the film itself is deeply uninterested in exploring in…

ANOTHER Movie Channel Presents: Akira Kurosawa – The Directors Series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wva1eQ-TFUY Y'all love him already, bruh. Guess you can skip this one, bruh. *violence* Watch, like, subscribe, bruh.

Such Good Friends

#22 in my ranking of Otto Preminger's films. This is a good partner piece with Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon. Well, not that it’s good, but good as demonstrative of where Otto Preminger was in his career: adapting middling books mainly about women to the screen. And not doing a great job…

Tell Me that You Love Me, Junie Moon

#29 in my ranking of Otto Preminger's films. Otto Preminger is just...lost. Okay, this isn’t as bad as Skidoo. I don’t think Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon is bad, but it’s...not much of anything. It’s another adaptation of a novel (this time by Margorie Kellogg who also wrote the screenplay), but this…