078 – One Hour Photo (with Matt Jacobs)

After Robin Williams finally won his Academy Award for Good Will Hunting, unfortunately the next few years were a series of less-than-well-received projects after another. But after a quick break, Williams transitioned from more sentimental films into a run of dark and creepy material – including this week’s film, the stalking psychodrama One Hour Photo. This week, HuffPost movie reporter Matt Jacobs joins us to talk about Robin Williams’ pivoted into creepiness, including Christopher Nolan’s Insomnia and the completely reviled Death to Smoochy. Despite the independent thriller was a small scale success at the box office, One Hour Photo was ultimately buried in a year of December heavyweights. Though Williams received raves at the Sundance Film Festival and a Critics’ Choice award nomination (not to mention an AARP Movies for Grown-ups nomination for… Best Breakaway Performance?), the Academy did not embrace this new territory for the screen legend. We also talk about director Mark Romanek and the generation of directors that started in music videos, movies we first watched in high school classrooms, and undiscovered Celine Dion classics. (Apologies and thank you for your patience on this week’s audio! We had unfortunate technical difficulties that arose after the recording.) Follow Us on Twitter! @Had_Oscar_Buzz Joe: @joereid Chris: @chrisvfeil Matt: @tarantallegra