Author: Jacob Oller

The director’s best work is that which is most open to interpretation.

World-spanning and unique animation won’t let you look away. An adorable, googly-eyed fox totters through a storybook-painted landscape with enough CGI details to drown a…

Insecurity meets acceptance and conversation in a well-shot short. Youthful relationship films have been done to death. Tackling serious issues with them, done in a…

Unemployment could make anyone feel like a pig. But literally? Feeling low is a commonly-explored instigator of plots across media, but analyzing that psychology on…

A murderer’s house should feel like one. Based on the same real-life horrors as Fritz Lang’s M, 1973’s The Tenderness of Wolves, directed by Ulli…

When you want just one perfect shot to be modeled after something familiar. I’ve introduced you to videos that explore how paintings have influenced movie…

Cinematography owes much to the French master. Henri Alekan was the cinematographer behind movies like Jean Cocteau’s magical La Belle et la Bête, William Wyler’s…

Those brothers have a certain way of going about, pauses and all. Part of Alejandro Villarreal’s ongoing series on the cinematic voices of certain filmmakers,…

The controversial director isn’t shy about anything, especially his references. Lars Von Trier is a meticulous director, despite his looseness with words on his own…