Otis Wheeler
@owheeler.bsky.social
Here to write things that don’t matter in a place no one looks. Poptimism, vulgar auteurism and sabermetrics are the same.
The Fishing Place (2024, Rob Tregenza) eluded me as narrative but the photography sure hits
November 7, 2025 at 6:07 AM
The Fishing Place (2024, Rob Tregenza) eluded me as narrative but the photography sure hits
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
October 6, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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
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
September 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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
“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
August 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
“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
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.”
August 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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.”
Fifth time watching They All Laughed but somehow the first time I noticed Robby Müller's cameraman was none other than Ed Lachman. Lachman talks about Müller's love for Joel Meyerowitz, Cape Light in particular, and you can see it. Masters of soft light, the light between buildings.
August 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Fifth time watching They All Laughed but somehow the first time I noticed Robby Müller's cameraman was none other than Ed Lachman. Lachman talks about Müller's love for Joel Meyerowitz, Cape Light in particular, and you can see it. Masters of soft light, the light between buildings.
Had to interrupt S.O.B. (1981, Blake Edwards) partway through in order to watch this scene nineteen times
June 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Had to interrupt S.O.B. (1981, Blake Edwards) partway through in order to watch this scene nineteen times
Plunkett, Parobeck & Burchett snuck a Love & Rockets reference into Batman Adventures #12
June 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Plunkett, Parobeck & Burchett snuck a Love & Rockets reference into Batman Adventures #12
A film that takes place where you're from
April 17, 2025 at 4:37 AM
A film that takes place where you're from
Me at work every day for the next thousand years
April 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Me at work every day for the next thousand years
Coma (Bonello, 2022)
January 27, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Coma (Bonello, 2022)
Now if only I could do this on Letterboxd
January 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Now if only I could do this on Letterboxd
25 minutes into The Order, he struck this pose and I finally caught on
December 26, 2024 at 4:56 PM
25 minutes into The Order, he struck this pose and I finally caught on
Slap a moustache on Jude Law and I can't even recognize him
December 26, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Slap a moustache on Jude Law and I can't even recognize him
I fucking love this movie. Here’s a Letterboxd review I left in my Notes app bc I’m a coward. And if you have other Zalman King faves, I’d love to hear about them
December 21, 2024 at 3:10 AM
I fucking love this movie. Here’s a Letterboxd review I left in my Notes app bc I’m a coward. And if you have other Zalman King faves, I’d love to hear about them
My collection is small so this is my only dupe, TC #5
December 17, 2024 at 3:47 AM
My collection is small so this is my only dupe, TC #5
I have a bias above everything for poetry with a light touch, about people living outside of society – Ted Berrigan, Philip Whalen, Pull My Daisy, some Godard… and Chantal Akerman's I'm Hungry, I'm Cold. The restoration is gorgeous.
December 6, 2024 at 5:03 AM
I have a bias above everything for poetry with a light touch, about people living outside of society – Ted Berrigan, Philip Whalen, Pull My Daisy, some Godard… and Chantal Akerman's I'm Hungry, I'm Cold. The restoration is gorgeous.
Really enjoyed subtitling Axelle Ropert’s documentary, Truffaut au présent (2014). What a lovely generation of actors.
November 25, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Really enjoyed subtitling Axelle Ropert’s documentary, Truffaut au présent (2014). What a lovely generation of actors.
Tfw you take credit but not too much.
November 14, 2024 at 5:26 AM
Tfw you take credit but not too much.
Repost with ur first crush
August 24, 2024 at 11:04 PM
Repost with ur first crush
80th Street & Broadway, 1976-1977, Rackstraw Downes
April 9, 2024 at 2:37 PM
80th Street & Broadway, 1976-1977, Rackstraw Downes
Got home from Menus-plaisirs at 11:30pm feeling so inspired I had to snack. “Cuisine isn’t cinema,”my ass
February 8, 2024 at 5:04 AM
Got home from Menus-plaisirs at 11:30pm feeling so inspired I had to snack. “Cuisine isn’t cinema,”my ass