Hello, my name's Justin the Clue, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club. Finally, back in our own digs. And we're

going to be talking about everyone's favorite, Otto Preminger.

Skadoo! Skadoo! Now, this is a director that I don't think I had ever dived into his work.

I knew of him.

I had seen his classic film, Anademy of a Murder, starring Jim S. Stewart.

I don't know why.

Jim S. Stewart.

As his fans like to call him.

And he always kind of fascinated me, though, because he was around for a long time.

And the fact that he went completely independent from the studios in the mid-50s always fascinated me.

So, thanks to this podcast, I could finally watch a bunch of his movies.

And I found myself a little bit conflicted with his work in the sense

that we talked last time of, is he anuteur? And I remember that in Cecil B. Demented, the classic

John Waters film, Steven Dorff has a bunch of directors' names tattooed on his arm, including

Otto Preminger as like an otter. And I recall reading a review where someone was like,

Otto Preminger is not a fucking otter.

He is the head of studio hack journeymen.

Okay, but he was also claimed by the Coyote de Cinema crowd as an otor.

In an article by Jacques Rivette,

but what's interesting about that article is that he can't pinpoint thematic concerns that

Preminger has.

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