OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
50 Films I Loved In 2023
Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
Interviews
Mãos de Fogo
Paulo Portugal @ Insider.pt [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Já nos vamos habituando a uma presença regular de cinema português em Berlim. E não só. Um ano depois do João Canijo deixar a marca do seu cinema com MalViver/Viver Mal, este ano é a vez de Margarida Gil, meter Mãos no Fogo na Berlinale.
A Paixão Segundo G.H.
Paulo Portugal @ Insider.pt [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: A Paixão Segundo G.H. é a segunda longa metragem do experiente cineasta carioca Luiz Fernando Carvalho, com quase quatro décadas “a bater claquetes”. Seja na direção de várias novelas e mini séries, na TV Globo, mas também em dois filmes únicos: Lavoura Arcaica, de 2001, considerado um dos melhores filmes brasileiros, adaptando o universo do escritor Raduan Nassar; o outro estreia esta semana, com o selo da Nitrato Filmes, em salas selecionadas de Lisboa, Porto e Coimbra.
A Conversation with Maggie Greenwald (The Ballad of Little Joe)
Christopher Reed @ Hammer to Nail
- Excerpt: Veteran director Maggie Greenwald made what many, including her, consider her most-celebrated work, “The Ballad of Little Jo,” in 1993. Now, 30 years later, courtesy of Kino Lorber, there comes a brand-new Blu-ray release featuring an HD master of the movie taken from a 4K scan of the original 35mm negative.
Awards Coverage
96th Oscars Poll: Best Adapted Screenplay
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
96th Oscars Poll: Best Documentary Feature
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
96th Oscars Poll: Best Documentary Short Subject
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
96th Oscars Poll: Best International Feature
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
96th Oscars Poll: Best Original Screenplay
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
96th Oscars Poll: Best Original Song
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
96th Oscars Poll: Best Supporting Actor
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
96th Oscars Poll: Best Supporting Actress
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Path to Oscar 2023: Actress
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Path to Oscar 2023: Animated Feature
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Path to Oscar 2023: Costume Design
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Path to Oscar 2023: Documentary Feature
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Path to Oscar 2023: Supporting Actress
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Path to Oscar 2023: Visual Effects
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Poll: Re-Awarding Best Visual Effects, 2015
The Ultimate List Poll #89
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Upcoming Film Previews
Amelia’s Children
Borderlands
Bring Him to Me
Challengers, Updated
Cuckoo
Glitter & Doom
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Updated
Limbo
Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate
Sasquatch Sunset
Shirley
We Grown Now
Festival Coverage (General)
Berlinale. É o cinema do mundo, da política, e das causas.
Paulo Portugal @ Insider.pt [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Cada vez mais, os festivais de cinema assumem a responsabilidade de auscultar o mundo, e até contrapor utopias visuais à inacreditável realidade que nos absorve. Este ano, em que se irá comemorar o segundo ano da invasão russa à Ucrânia, no próximo dia 23, mas também o prolongamento da guerra entre Israel e o Hamas, na Palestina, esta ilha de reflexão torna-se ainda mais urgente.
Berlinale: Mati Diop vence Urso de Ouro com ‘Dahomey’
Paulo Portugal @ Insider.pt [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Num palmarés dominado pelas causas, Hong Sang-Soo venceu o Grande Prémio do Júri, com A Traveler’s Needs, ao passo que o inventivo Bruno Dumont recebeu o Prémio do Júri para L’Empire. Mãos no Fogo, de Margarida Gil, ficou fora dos prémios.
Martin Scorsese alerta: “Não devemos deixar que a tecnologia nos controle!”
Paulo Portugal @ Insider.pt [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Martin Scorsese esteve em Berlim: recebeu um Urso de Ouro honorário, homenageou o cinema de Michael Powell e Emeric Pressburger, em ‘Made in Ingland’, e conversou com Joanna Hogg, no contexto dos Berlinale Talents.
Reviews of Short Films
Prairie Sisters
Panos Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: “Prairie Sisters” is a very appealing short, well-directed and well-shot, which works quite well as both a family drama and as a comment on the particular way of life.
Do Not Go Gentle in Taipei
Panos Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: “Do Not Go Gentle in Taipei” is fun, entertaining and rather well shot, and a testament that genre filmmaking can also be quite successful in the short format.
Other Types of Articles
Movie Madness Episode 452: Somebody Take The Wheel, Please
Erik Childress @ Now Playing Network
- Excerpt: Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy take on seven new films this week.
Movie Madness Episode 453: Calling All Gangsters And Weekend Warriors
Erik Childress @ Now Playing Network
- Excerpt: This week on the latest and greatest in physical media, Peter Sobczynski joins Erik Childress to talk about a wealth of new titles in 4K.
Anime Review: Kingdom Season 3
Panos Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: “Kingdom Season 3” is a truly masterful title, probably one of the best war/epic anime of all time.
Critics Are Stupid: The Truth About Charlie
Box Office History (Week 8, 2024)
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: February 23
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: February 24
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: February 25
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: February 26
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: February 27
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: February 28
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: February 29
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
