OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
No Concessions: Quality Time
- Excerpt: A Top Ten 2013 list and more.
Awards Coverage
The 86th Annual Academy Awards: Best Actor
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: The McRenaissance continues . . .
The 86th Annual Academy Awards: Best Animated Feature
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: Disney hasn’t won in this category. That may change . . .
Alone Yet Not Alone’s Oscar Nomination Scandal
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: All that’s left for Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs is for her to say, “i’m shocked, SHOCKED, that campaigning is going on in here!” The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences is hypocritical and bigoted.
BAFTAs
Black Reel Awards
Et le César d’Honneur est pour…
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: French Film Academy Honorary Award
Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 12
- Excerpt: A look at the winners and losers from the 12th week of Oscar Precursor Season.
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Feb. 14-16, 2014
- Excerpt: Looking at the Oscar potential for “RoboCop” and “Kids for Cash”
Oscar-by-the-Numbers picks this year’s Best Picture winner
James Plath Plath @ Movie Metropolis
- Excerpt: Have a look at the scores and trailers for this year’s nominees . . . and the winner this simple system chose.
The Rundown 2013: Actor
- Excerpt: Cinema Sight looks at the 86th Oscars race for Actor
The Rundown 2013: Actress
- Excerpt: Cinema Sight looks at the 86th Oscars race for Actress
The Rundown 2013: Animated & Live-Action Short Films
- Excerpt: Cinema Sight looks at the 86th Oscars race for Animated & Live-Action Short Films
The Rundown 2013: Animated Feature
- Excerpt: Cinema Sight looks at the 86th Oscars race for Animated Feature
The Rundown 2013: Director
- Excerpt: Cinema Sight looks at the 86th Oscars race for Director
The Rundown 2013: Documentary Feature & Short Subject
- Excerpt: Cinema Sight looks at the 86th Oscars race for Documentary Feature & Short Subject
The Rundown 2013: Foreign Language Film
- Excerpt: Cinema Sight looks at the 86th Oscars race for Foreign Language Film
The Rundown 2013: Original Score & Original Song
- Excerpt: Cinema Sight looks at the 86th Oscars race for Original Score & Original Song
The Rundown 2013: Supporting Actor
- Excerpt: Cinema Sight looks at the 86th Oscars race for Supporting Actor
The Rundown 2013: Supporting Actress
- Excerpt: Cinema Sight looks at the 86th Oscars race for Supporting Actress
The Rundown 2013: Visual Effects & Makeup
- Excerpt: Cinema Sight looks at the 86th Oscars race for Visual Effects and Makeup
Interviews
Heretic: Two Greek producers travell the world
Joseph Proimakis @ Popaganda.gr [Greek]
- Excerpt: From Wasted Youth to Standing Aside, Watching, Konstantinos Kontovrakis and Giorgos Karnavas have given birth to some of modern Greek cinemas most well-travelled films. How do they do it?
Yiannis Economides: “My characters were in crisis long before the Greek bubble even burst”
Joseph Proimakis @ Cineuropa.org
- Excerpt: Spearheading the Greek invasion at the Berlinale, Stratos director Yannis Economides discusses his divisive competition entry
Festivals: General Coverage
Berlinale: Beware of the Bear
Joseph Proimakis @ Popaganda.gr [Greek]
- Excerpt: The world’s best-attended film festival ready for its curtain call, with Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel set to open and an unfinished Scorsese closing the fest
Berlinale: It’s tough out there
Joseph Proimakis @ Popaganda.gr [Greek]
- Excerpt: The Berlinale welcomes press with amazing weather; wish we’d say the same about the films
Berlinale: Showered in stars, soaked in alcohol
Joseph Proimakis @ Popaganda.gr [Greek]
- Excerpt: George Clooney and Lars von Trier’s crews bring much needed glitz to the fest; the city’s bar-scene much-craved numbness
Berlinale: Vangelis Mourikis for the win
Joseph Proimakis @ Popaganda.gr [Greek]
- Excerpt: Yiannis Economides’ Stratos sets his lead on path to awards, a random Tinder match sets me on path to the perfect currywurst
The Greeks storm Berlinale with five films in as many sections
Joseph Proimakis @ Cineuropa.org
- Excerpt: Standing Aside, Watching, At Home and Stratos ride the Greek wave into Berlin
Thessaloniki Doc Fest to honour Peter Wintonick and Nicolas Philibert
Joseph Proimakis @ Cineuropa.org
- Excerpt: The audience award will be named after the late Canadian, while the French documentarian will attend an eclectic retrospective
Festivals: Individual Reviews
Berlinale: 40 Days of Silence tackles Uzbek women’s tribulations
Joseph Proimakis @ Cineuropa.org
- Excerpt: Metaphysical eeriness meets the practicalities of rural Uzbek life in a female-centred drama that demonstrates an acute social awareness
Berlinale: At Home offers an alternative viewpoint on the Greek crisis
Joseph Proimakis @ Cineuropa.org
- Excerpt: Karanikolas’ second consecutive Forum entry presents the Greek crisis through the eyes of an ailing immigrant worker
Berlinale: Standing Aside, Watching highlights the violence of inaction
Joseph Proimakis @ Cineuropa.org
- Excerpt: Yorgos Servetas’ Panorama entry blends Blue Velvet chills with western aesthetics in a tale of perilous homecoming
Stratos masterfully blends previous Economides with chilling, dark noir
Joseph Proimakis @ Cineuropa.org
- Excerpt: Yannis Economides’ first foray into genre cinema is a mesmerising gangster film with rich social undercurrents and an award-worthy lead
TIME IS ILLMATIC, The Documentary Based on Rapper Nas’ Iconic Album, Will Open the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival
Tributes
Shirley Temple
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: In the end, why does the death of Shirley Temple matter? It matters because Temple set the template for how to be a child star and how not to be swallowed up by it.
Television
The Americans: A Brief Introduction
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
Doctor Who: Love & Monsters
- Excerpt: How bad was Love & Monsters? It was so bad that I QUIT watching Doctor Who because of it. The ugliest, the worst episode in its 50 year history (and that’s saying a lot).
Elementary: Internal Audit
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
Elementary: Tremors
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
The Following
The Walking Dead Post-Game: Inmates
Brent m @ Giant Freakin’ Robot
Essays
Claire Underwood on “House of Cards”: Antihero, Villain or…Role Model?
Redemption Tomorrow for Sin Today: The Fallen Woman in Pre-Code Films
Stacia Kissick Jones @ ClassicFlix
Why Isn’t Naomie Harris In All the Movies?
Reviews of Short Films
Le Miroir
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Swiss Short Film Review
The Misbehaviour of Polly Paper Cut
O Método
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
Talvez
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
Other Articles
Everybody chill out about the ‘Noah’ movie
Steven Greydanus @ National Catholic Register
- Excerpt: Is Russell Crowe’s Noah an environmentalist wacko? Is God a monster out to eradicate humanity entirely? Get a grip, people.
John Hines Show
- Excerpt: Feb. 14 radio reviews
John Hines Show
- Excerpt: Feb. 7 radio reviews
The Morning After: Feb. 17, 2014
- Excerpt: A Short Review for “The Day of the Jackal”
