Miscellany

Sucked in

By April 14, 2009No Comments

Whirlpool

Above, a typ­ic­ally arrest­ing image from Preminger’s 1950 Whirlpool. My pal Bill R. took my advice (which is some­times good) and checked it out recently, and has some typ­ic­ally enga­ging and astute thoughts on the pic­ture over at his always-intriguing blog. Check ’em out. 

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  • Ed Howard says:
    April 14, 2009 at 11:21 am

    The con­ver­sa­tion over there has also developed into a good debate about Preminger in gen­er­al, for those who are interested.

  • Ryan Kelly says:
    April 14, 2009 at 11:46 am

    It’s a pier­cing piece of ana­lys­is, to be sure, and Ed Howard’s insights are always fas­cin­at­ing. It hap­pens every time over there… he and Ed build a fas­cin­at­ing con­ver­sa­tion, and I show up a day late and a dol­lar short. Oh well. Maybe next time I’ll acutally have seen the movie they decide to discuss!

  • bill says:
    April 14, 2009 at 12:15 pm

    Thanks very much for the plug, Glenn. And Ryan’s cor­rect: Ed has got­ten much deep­er into Preminger in the com­ments than I do in the ori­gin­al post. He humbles me.
    But, Glenn, you’re advice was indeed good. I loved the film, and am becom­ing a bit rabid about Preminger. On to “Bonjour Tristesse” and “Bunny Lake is Missing” (after I’ve read the source nov­el for the latter).

  • Ryan Kelly says:
    April 14, 2009 at 7:02 pm

    I nev­er said Ed went deep­er than you did with your post! It was a good read, and the com­ments have expan­ded the dis­cus­sion. It’s what blog­ging is all about. But don’t take it as some kind of back-handed insult at you. But yes, Ed could prob­ably out-articulate us all any day of the week, and twice on Sunday.

  • bill says:
    April 14, 2009 at 7:42 pm

    Oh, no, I knew you wer­en’t insult­ing me. I was just admit­ting to some­thing bey­ond what you said.

  • Ed Howard says:
    April 15, 2009 at 11:36 am

    Bill, you sell your­self short. There’s a reas­on I love com­ment­ing at your site, you always provide some very inter­est­ing conversations.
    OK, enough of the circle jerk/group hug…
    Glenn, on the top­ic of Preminger, I see that a new DVD of Rosebud has been released in the UK. Any word on the qual­ity of that disc? Or, for that mat­ter, of the film, which is part of Preminger’s much-maligned late peri­od but which I’m very curi­ous about anyway.

  • Gorilla Bob says:
    April 15, 2009 at 3:59 pm

    I’m a Preminger fan, des­pite his flaws. I love “Advise & Consent,” still the best film on Washington, and I’m even a fan, if that’s the right word, of “Skidoo” (Still wait­ing for the deluxe Dvd ver­sion, replete with audio com­ment­ary by Carol Channing and who­ever else is still alive). Saw “Rosebud” way back when, can­’t recall what I thought, but his stuff is always worth a look. His short auto­bio is pretty amus­ing too.