Anatomy of a Murder

#2 in my ranking of Otto Preminger's films. Almost an entire film that’s courtroom drama...and I love it? What is this new devilry? Sure, it probably goes a bit too far into the unbelievable in the end with surprise witnesses, but Otto Preminger, working from a script by Wendell Mayes based on a book written…

ANOTHER Movie Channel Presents: Frank Capra – The Directors Series

https://youtu.be/x3DMpH4xWB8?si=T8ZGe-25vjvXURpB Frank Capra, bruh. Need I say more, bruh?

Porgy and Bess

#12 in my ranking of Otto Preminger's films. This is something of a throwback to Preminger’s Fox days as the studio hatchet man and fixer. Samuel Goldwyn purchased the rights to Gershwin’s opera and hired theatrical director Rouben Mamoulian. However, after a fire late in pre-production delayed production by six weeks, Mamoulian found himself plenty…

Bonjour Tristesse

#15 in my ranking of Otto Preminger's films. Based on the novel by Francoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse is something like a French New Wave film from Otto Preminger, except he uses Brits and Americans while not having the free-wheeling production styles of people like Truffaut or Godard. It’s a curious piece, a story of a…

Saint Joan

#37 in my ranking of Otto Preminger's films. I really expected the independent era of Otto Preminger’s career to represent a marked step up from his studio work at Fox, but here we are, two films in a row, that feel like assignments he just barreled through. Saint Joan was based on a play by…