Jakob

guy who watches movies and paints pictures - @jakobjohnsonart on IG

Favorite films

  • Punch-Drunk Love
  • Gummo
  • American Movie
  • Barry Lyndon

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  • Master Gardener

    ★★★★½

  • Spirited Away

    ★★★★½

  • Arsenic and Old Lace

    ★★★½

  • The Brute

    ★★★

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  • Master Gardener

    Master Gardener

    ★★★★½

    Joel Edgerton sir hello sir I love you yes oscar's 2024 best pictureman best actorman Joel Edgertton You Are So good

    but for real, Paul Schrader continues to deliver the realest kind of shit in his advanced age. I love the style his films have adopted. And, yes, I do think Joel Edgerton might be a once-in-a-generation type talent.

  • Spirited Away

    Spirited Away

    ★★★★½

    An audiovisual treat, with the bonus feature of having an incredible story. Seriously, this is one of the best looking animated films I've ever seen, from the art direction to the actual animation itself. Stunningly beautiful and very moving.

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  • Brothers

    Brothers

    ★★★½

    Everybody Is Emotionally Disturbed: The Film

    In an alternate universe, Ben Affleck adapted and directed this film, set it in Boston, got Casey Affleck to play Sam, and then cast himself as Tommy. Can you see it? I can see it.

  • The Dreamers

    The Dreamers

    ★★★★

    Bernardo Bertolucci is one of the undisputed masters of the erotic-drama genre and 2003's The Dreamers is as ever a Bertolucci erotic-drama experience as could be.

    The characters, all played by uniquely beautiful actors (Michael Pitt with his defining lips and anemic quality, Eva Green with, well, everything, and Louis Garrel with his sharp features, prominent jaw, and dark eyes), are obsessed. The trio is obsessed with film—classic and French New Wave especially—and this is reflected by Bertolucci, who integrates…