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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Contra the discourse, I've been listening to Choosin' Texas for 11 months, I've heard it at karaoke, county fairs & in covers or remixes by Waxahatchee & Drake. It's a terrific song co-written by maybe our greatest working country songwriter, the performance is spotless, and I'm still not sick of it

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Painting Photography (Monographs) Jazz Tiny Poetry Fiction Elmore Leonard/Crime Movies Music Photobooks Theater Piles on the floor Occult/Horror Zines/Mimeographs Urban planning/politics Nature Comics (its own room) The rest is vibe coded (disorganized)

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Someone let the brilliant, enthusiastic, tattooed Classics scholar take down every Nolan movie

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Sometimes I wonder why no one talks about Girls Aloud so ty Pink Pantheress for calling Biology the most underrated British music in an interview 🙌🏻

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Ariel Pink in 2005, Lemonheads in 2019

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

You: please act normal you need these people to like you Me: ok! People: hi Me: what do the European square, newsprint comics, & theater framed by the proscenium arch have in common with academy ratio? Harmony between a subject & its context gives it life, minimizing entropy by creating a closed…

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

To come up with four, I'd have to root around in the back of a catch-all drawer for whichever amusing or serviceable action movie my fingers happened upon

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

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Something no one mentions when they're reminiscing about video stores is the type of guy who would insist that Iike Ned Kelly was the greatest movie ever made, and he'd just rent Ned Kelly every other month. I wonder what that guy's up to

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

The Matrix Resurrections was never going to pop off bc the entire thing is deconstructing the legacy of what it means for queer and trans pepople vs what it means for everyone else, but it deserved a better chance than it got. It was doomed bc it came out the same day as the Omicron strain of Covid!

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

You can't suck me in with your What Movie Infuriated You prompts, I'm busy watching Alan Rudolph's complete œuvre. I'm hearing Mark Isham & Teddy Pendergrass in my sleep

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Release Lonesome Dove in academy ratio, you cowards

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kren @kren.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

I've been thinking about this sign for 6 months. a phrase I'll treasure forever. a metaphor with boundless potential

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Leave Her to Heaven (1945, John Stahl) is such a beautiful movie

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

Cornel Wilde, acting in Leave Her to Heaven, walks into a courtyard

Gene Tierney and Cornel Wilde sit and talk in the movie Leave Her to Heaven

Ruth Berent, played by actress Jeanne Crain, looks offscreen in Leave Her to Heaven

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

God bless Brad Stevens, who has, as usual, the most interesting & diffident Sight and Sound top ten. Is anyone more dedicated to the film maudit?

Critic Brad Stevens’ top ten list submission to the Sight & Sound end of year poll for 2025

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Spielberg showing Shyamalan influence, a full circle

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Someone told me they don’t like jazz bc it’s not emotional enough. That’s like saying you don’t like furniture bc it’s not emotional enough, you don’t like Montreal, cafes, wool sweaters, porcupines or the letters X, Y & Z bc they’re not emotional enough.

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.

Norman Rockwell painting, depicting little Roby Bridges being escorted into a school by Feds. Racial slurs are pained on the wall behind here. A thrown tomato lies on the ground.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope. Yes, THAT Pope.

The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative. Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is above all an invocation. When cinema is authentic, it does not merely console, but challenges. It articulates the questions that dwell within us, and sometimes, even provokes tears that we did not know we needed to express.

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

My mom watched S01 as it aired but I was 9 & only caught snippets. As soon as I could drive, I rented the whole series on VHS from a video store 30 minutes away, and rewatched parts of it when it came out on DVD. Notoriously, the pilot wasn’t included in either release, so I didn’t see it until 2014

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

PTU: rich, funny, theatrical, mannerist. The first Johnnie To movie I didn’t just admire but loved, with arguably the defining role for Lam Suet, the greatest supporting actor since Walter Brennan. Endlessly rewatchable.

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

The Fishing Place (2024, Rob Tregenza) eluded me as narrative but the photography sure hits

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I’m two ★★★★ Letterboxd logs of late Linklater or Assayas away from admitting I like the movie equivalent of soft rock

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

The most confusing things to me about dating are when they've never heard of cross-contamination, and when they don't believe clicking on a trackpad with your thumb is a thing. Plus everything else

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Sorry to post this at 9pm when Bluesky is tumbleweeds but everyone should know that Abel Ferrara narrates his new memoir on audiobook. He even pronounces the words www.audible.com/pd/Scene-Aud...

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Check out this great listen on Audible.com. A kaleidoscopic memoir by acclaimed filmmaker Abel Ferrara, director of the cult classic films Bad Lieutenant, King of New York, and Dangerous Game, offerin...

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

History's littered with beautiful ideas for movies that never got made—Soderbergh's conclusion to Star Wars is the latest—but Abel Ferrara saying on Conan in '96 that he wants to do "Cheers with a little T&A" and ACTUALLY DOING IT 10 yrs later kinda makes up for all of them youtu.be/aY7yyhjOXWw?...

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Abel Ferrara On "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" 10/23/96 | Late Night with Conan O’Brien

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.com · 22/10/2025

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

"I haven't thought much about parades tbh" such an iconic answer that Cuomo immediately tries to pilfer it

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

In order to watch Emergency Kisses, a Philippe Garrel movie I'd never seen, in 1080p, I had to subscribe to UniversCiné, rent the movie, dl English subtitles, convert the subs from 25fps to 24, find a website that could overlay SRT on streaming video, and correct for drift. I just love streaming 🫩

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

The bonsai-trimming episode in Safdie's remake of The Smashing Machine is a highlight but the way it pales next to its wordless counterpart from Hyams' original speaks to the dangers of transposing work from a minor to a major key

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

This Clint bio is readable as summary, worthless as judgment. Why aren’t biographies written by critics, instead of hacks? We need more bios by people like Tag Gallagher, Bernard Eisenschitz, and Dan Nadel, less by journalists who purport to have taste and lack imagination

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

If Sergio Leone were alive today, he’d still only be a year older than Clint Eastwood

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Please everyone stop befouling this good news with frames from Don’t Look Up

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

At any given moment I am thinking about these photos of Sally Eilers filming Walls of Gold in 1933.

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

“If I face a film that just delivers the message without leaving me the freedom to form my own perspective, I stay outside.”

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

The Tracking Shot in Kapo but it’s just about Mike Figgis making Megadoc

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

This past week's p0ptimism discourse has been thoughtful and these posts from Frank are especially articulate. One angle I haven't seen this round is, what did p0ptimism mean to you? As a teen in the 90s, I didn't know I was nb, queer or neurodivergent. /1

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Really enjoyed the Generation Taylor ep of Switched on Pop for giving me vocab to talk about Swift's songwriting: minimal (stepwise) melodies w/perfect prosody, T Drops (a minor 2nd into a descending 5th etc). And for talking about Maisie Peters out loud. That's a first. What next, Claire Rosinkranz

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Forget whether or not critics are mean enough anymore, what about Borges via Pierre Menard: “Censure and praise are sentimental operations which have nothing to do literary criticism.”

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

New Jen Cohen is rich, discursive, a lovely bummer. What a gift it is that old friends like Michael Stipe, Patti Smith and Guy Picciotti are in a position to help him get pictures like this* made. *as if anyone is making pictures like this, as if Robert Kramer had grown up with Dischord and lived

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I think we can all agree James Gray was better before he went prestige but returning to his roots to make a story about brothers tangling with Russian Mafia in Queens–w/Driver, Teller & ScarJo–is the most excited I’ve been for one of his movies in a minute

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Unpopular (?) opinion(s): Fay Grim is the great Parker Posey movie. Dutch angles are funny

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

“My entire creative life […] has in one way or another sought to be a kind of resistance to complacent jargon, the dumbing down of complex realities into opinionated sound bites.” – Hal Hartley

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Hartley comes home, to an apartment full of stock company, and makes a last film, his usual tools used to gentler ends, a film of ideas as always & a farce ofc. A movie for right now, about a director who wants to do something “useful & perennial. […] service that is constantly & forever required.”

Blu-ray of the forthcoming Hal Hartley movie, Where to Land

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

most underrated films of the 70s 70: Rio Lobo 71: Sometimes a Great Notion 72: Junior Bonner 73: Breezy 74: Le milieu du monde 75: Milestones 76: Mado 77: Citizens Band 78: Paradise Alley 79: 1941

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Otis Wheeler @owheeler.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

IRL fashion aside, I've yet to enjoy a Chalamet performance but know that I now live to see him acting, via Josh Safdie, like ping-pong is all that matters in the world www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI6-...

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Marty Supreme | Official Teaser HD | A24

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