Jacob Oller

spinning my every encounter into a warped tale of class, sex, and violence AKA Park Chan-wookmaxxing

I won't say not to see it but I will say that Kind Hearts and Coronets is on Tubi rn

Linklater is the only one who has used him well, but unfortunately he got mega famous for Top Gun instead of Everybody Wants Some and we all have to pay the price for that. (I still adore him in the two Linklater’s though and I’m rooting for him!)

i don't mind Powell, but man, when they tried to sell him in The Running Man as "the angriest man alive," it was like trying to imagine Ryan Reynolds as King Lear.

It's the best part of the movie, easy

Andrew Bare 3 hours ago And I keep reading complaints that critics aren't mean enough these days....

you have entered the No Puff Piece Zone

It's so wrong

He needs to be weaponized by a filmmaker willing to make him extremely unappealing

"like a Dickensian hero who grows up to be an off-brand Patrick Bateman"

wait, what lol?

I never realized James Brown became The Godfather of Soul because he soundtracked a movie where Fred Williamson was The Godfather of Harlem

Sadly the landscape is so absent of juice that even the hint of juice leads to a full-on investment in the juiceless

Watching a future “character actor with a leading man’s face” emerge in real time

It IS funny that he was a far better screen presence when he didn't have the power to pick all his roles

That's a great point, and something that will (hopefully) come with age.

Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights remains the novel's truest adaptation If you want Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights came to the screen in its best form 15 years ago thanks to Andrea Arnold.

I wrote about Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights, an imperfect adaptation (as all WH adaptations are) that gets closer to approximating Brontë's style and meaning than any other has. www.avclub.com/andrea-arnol...

It’s a weird movie! Very resistant to the idea that it’s a comedy

Over the last five years, Glen Powell’s film presence has shifted from surprisingly handsome charisma bomb to obviously calculated (yet still undeniably handsome) dud. There seems to be an insistence on someone’s part—whether it’s Powell’s or his agent’s or the filmmakers who deal with them—on keeping the actor confined to a small range of slick, square-jawed smarm, whether he is a rom-com lead, a tornado chaser, a dystopian game show contestant, a fake contract killer, or, in How To Make A Killing, a man murdering his way into an inheritance. He’s always smirking, often quipping, and so strikingly put together that the various ways these films try to diegetically disguise him are laughably insufficient. This strained consistency, this self-typecasting, these in-movie reminders of his irrepressible good looks—it all bolsters the careerist case that Powell is a movie star, sometimes at the cost of the movies themselves.

We can’t keep doing this

Glen Powell does more of the same in crime-comedy How To Make A Killing An heir murders his way to the top in How To Make A Killing, a film with simple observations and a predictable lead turn.

They’ve finally done it, they’ve made me sick of Glen Powell. My review of How To Make A Killing: www.avclub.com/how-to-make-...

And @rifewithkatie.bsky.social has a very nice remembrance of Wiseman today: bsky.app/profile/avcl...

Essential thread

It's quickly becoming the only thing I know how to do!

love to write about The Movies

King

O: You have a home in Argentina. How would you compare living in Argentina to living in America? RD: I’d never give up my country. I’m an American. But down there, I must say, at 2 or 3 o’clock in the morning in Buenos Aires, hundreds of people are in the streets and drinking coffee. There’s something there that’s not in this country, and I like that a lot. They get up kissing, and when they finish, it’s lunchtime. They can be arrogant but warm. The French are arrogant and arrogant. In Buenos Aires, they kind of look to the French somewhat, but I love it there. I like that city more than any other city, because you can go to coffee shops at any time of the day. There’s something about it. I’ve grown used to it, and I’ve been accepted there.

"They get up kissing, and when they finish, it’s lunchtime."

Robert Duvall's vision of Argentina sounds excellent

O: Is there any particular director who influenced the way you direct? RD: I found my own way, but I like some of the Iranian films. I liked the film The Apple, [by] a 17-year-old. But I would have to say, I keep going back to Ken Loach. I like the way he works. He listens rather than looks. I like the way he gets behavior, and he does improvisation in a good way. If an actor gets stuck, he can help them in certain ways. Certain directors give freedom, and I’ve worked with them. But I’ve noticed that sometimes when actors get stuck, the director doesn’t necessarily know how to help them. A director who gives you freedom but can also help an actor who gets stuck, that’s the kind of guy Ken Loach is.

reading old Robert Duvall interviews and I love that he namedrops Ken Loach but was also like "check out Samira Makhmalbaf's 1998 debut!" www.avclub.com/robert-duval...

AVC: You’ve made 41 films. Does it feel like you’ve made that many? FW: No. But once it’s done I rarely go back and look at it again. AVC: At the end of it all, is there something that you’d like to be remembered for in this genre and this form? FW: Well, I’d like to be remembered for the 41 movies I’ve made! AVC: Certainly you’ll be remembered for those. But, is there— FW: No, but certainly, making movies is an effort is an attempt to leave a trace of your existence. AVC: Can you imagine doing anything else as a career? FW: Yeah, I thought of being Roger Federer, but it’s too late.

Frederick Wiseman in 2015: www.avclub.com/frederick-wi...

this is the kind of country and era and genre-spanning completionism I live for

a guy who could somehow play Boo Radley and Tom Hagen and THX and Eisenhower and Stalin and Eichmann and Robert E. Lee

Pew polled Americans and they all said, in unison, “no take only throw”

happy anniversary to a great movie and a great movie phone