Otis Wheeler

@owheeler.bsky.social

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Here to write things that don’t matter in a place no one looks. Poptimism, vulgar auteurism and sabermetrics are the same.

A top 3 best movies of 2026 list consisting of Deux Pianos by Arnaud Desplechin at #1, Miroirs no. 3 by Christian Petzold at 2, and the mall horror movie Forbidden Fruits at 3
A man at a bar checks out a woman across the room, who turns her head as the camera rack focuses. It's all very elegant
Gene Tierney, acting in Leave Her to Heaven, a film noir, sits in a train car and takes a book handed to her by someone off-screen
Critic Brad Stevens’ top ten list submission to the Sight & Sound end of year poll for 2025
Volume 1 of The Man Without Qualities, a novel by Robert Musil, in a German first edition
A scene from the 2002 documentary, The Smashing Machine, directed by John Hyams, featuring MMA fighter Mark Kerr and his girlfriend, Dawn
Blu-ray of the forthcoming Hal Hartley movie, Where to Land
35mm color photo by Joel Meyerowitz
Robert Preston and an unknown (to me) actress in a scene from S.O.B. (1981), written and directed by Blake Edwards
A still from the movie Janet Planet, directed by Annie Baker
French actress Léa Seydoux in La bête (2023), directed by Bertrand Bonello
A teenage girl in a leather jacket asks her friend if she thinks Paris is beautiful in Chantal Akerman's short film, I'm Hungry, I'm Cold, from 1984.
Swann Arlaud and Thibault Vinçon answer a question from Axelle Ropert
Esther Garrel, Laetitia Dosch, and Agatha Bonitzer answer a question from Axelle Ropert
Vincent Macaigne in the short film Truffaut au présent, directed by Axelle Robert. He is describing himself as a French actor and "metteur en scene."
Claire Danes as Angela Chase in My So-Called Life