Author: Jacob Oller

Video essay lists the references in the reference-heavy show. Stranger Things traffics heavily in nostalgia. The show, with its second season starting soon, looked at…

Art comes from art – even if it’s on a poster. Perfect shots don’t spontaneously assemble in a vacuum. No art does. While many films…

With Robert Bresson, less is always more. The French director Robert Bresson was known for his sparse filmmaking, with a minimalist style emphasizing the audience’s…

King Kong had nothing on him. Because he made it. You may know the name Ray Harryhausen as someone who was a stop-motion pioneer, but…

This short will put cinematography fans in helicopter heaven. Silent short films need to lean heavily on their cinematography because when all you have is…

Floridian doc chronicles its post-trap present. This documentary about the underground rap scene in South Florida uses its youth as both fuel and engine. Neon…

“Lynchian” doesn’t really begin to describe it. A stark, darkly funny animation whose styles evoke those of Japan and Eastern Europe, Rabbit’s Blood creates an…

Smoking kills but Billy Wilder made it look killer. Billy Wilder was one of the sharpest film writers of all time. His directing, to say…

David Lynch’s constructions are coherent in their craziness.