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Month: December 2025
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
#37 in my ranking of Otto Preminger's films. This is two kinds of films I generally don’t like. The first is the courtroom drama. The second is neener-neenering people in the past for not seeing the future. There’s a fine line between celebrating a visionary from the past and just insulting everyone around him, and… Continue reading The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
The Man with the Golden Arm
#7 in my ranking of Otto Preminger's films. This is closer to what I imagined Otto Preminger freed from Fox control would be. Adapting a novel by Nelson Algren about addiction of either morphine or heroin, Preminger makes a straight forward, tense drama about a man self-destructing. It’s the appropriate kind of mix between material… Continue reading The Man with the Golden Arm
ANOTHER Movie Channel Presents: John Carter and King Arthur, the Sequels that Never Were
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOWJSsbbNIQ Bruh waxes poetic about two movies no one cares about, bruh. Wishes they had sequels, bruh. Like, subscribe, form cult, bruh.
Carmen Jones
#3 in my ranking of Otto Preminger's films. Otto Preminger saw Oscar Hammerstein II’s Broadway production of Carmen Jones, his adaptation of the Carmen opera by Bizet, and hated it. Seeing it as heavily simplified and dramatically discordant within itself, he wanted to correct it in film form. Having recently bought out his own contract… Continue reading Carmen Jones