keeping you in the dark:
CARMEN JONES
director Otto Preminger, 1954
Oscar Hammerstein II
Georges Bizet
If you want to really see the rose, buy the record (if you can).
But if you want to see it tantalizingly disappearing and reappearing,
buy the movie!
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| Carmen Jones Oscar Hammerstein II's all-black revision of Bizet's "Carmen," brought to the screen by Otto Preminger, showcases Harry Belafonte as a handsome soldier whose love for sexy, conniving Dorothy Dandridge leads him to murder. Pearl Bailey, Olga James and Diahann Carroll also star in this classic, a much-requested film at Movies Unlimited. 105 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 4.0, Dolby Digital Surround; Subtitles: English, Spanish; theatrical trailer; interactive menus; scene access.    |
What I like very much about this one is how, just like in a stage opera, people stand there singing to each other about their most intimate feelings at the top of their voices, while nobody in the crowd milling around them seems to notice a thing. A weird convention, that — Preminger seems to feel the same way. And why must operas be so horribly melodramatic? The first movie titles by Saul Bass. |
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