Tommy Rettig and Robert Mitchum in River of No Return (1954) River of No Return (1954) was supposed to be a small picture; a si...

Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan 9780061440793 Harper Modern Perennial Classics Paperback $12.99 US Buy at Powells.com I had wa...

What I learned at the Otto Preminger lecture (and from Kevin in general)... 1) Otto Preminger employed Dalton Trumbo to write the movie Ex...

Gutten Morgen, Sergeants. Nasty weather we're having, eh? And I so much hoped we could give you a white Christmas... just like the ones ...

Bonjour Tristesse (1958) is my new obsession. In a nutshell, the story is about bored, rich people who play with other people's lives t...

I do love de movie Carmen Jones. It's de best dat Preminger got! Carmen Jones (1954 or 55) is by far my favorite Otto Preminger film ...

Warning: If you rent The Cardinal (1963) from Netflix, please make sure you also rent the 2nd DVD with special features. The Cardinal DV...

An earlier Otto Preminger film, Daisy Kenyon is a film about a working artist, played by a too-old Joan Crawford , who finds herself caugh...

Otto Preminger's 3 hour epic, The Cardinal (1963) , tells the story of the Catholic church during the 1st half of the 20th century throu...

Otto Preminger's Advise & Consent (1962) wasn't necessarily an enjoyable film to watch. I found myself wondering what the heck...

It was a strange coincidence that I watched Guys and Dolls (1955) and The Man with the Golden Arm (1956) back-to-back. Guys and Dolls is ...

This is my first in a series of entries on the director Otto Preminger. I'm planning to watch 8 Preminger films ( click here for the li...

It's been kind of quiet lately, classic film-wise (as Jack Lemmon would say in The Apartment). I'll be taking a brief hiatus for the...