OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
10 remarkable female characters in movies
Marcio Sallem @ Em Cartaz [Portuguese]
5 best movies with Aaron Eckhart
Marcio Sallem @ Em Cartaz [Portuguese]
Rachel Weisz’s 5 best movies
Marcio Sallem @ Em Cartaz [Portuguese]
Interviews
Cristian Mungiu on Romania’s Lost Generation and Going “Beyond the Hills”
Stephen Saito @ www.moveablefest.com
- Excerpt: The writer/director of “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days” talks about his return, an unexpectedly horrific and harrowing thriller about two former orphans whose conflicting beliefs lead to disastrous results upon reuniting at a convent.
Director Pablo Larrain on “No”
Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
Ronan Keating (Goddess)
SXSW ’13: Sarah Gertrude Shapiro, Anna Camp & Ashley Williams Raise Hell With “Sequin Raze”
Stephen Saito @ www.moveablefest.com
- Excerpt: A showdown on a dating show provides the backdrop for a sharp feminist satire in the narrative directorial debut of a former reality TV vet.
SXSW ’13: Steve Brown & Jessie Deeter on Igniting “Spark: A Burning Man Story”
Stephen Saito @ www.moveablefest.com
- Excerpt: After being inspired at SXSW, a tech entrepreneur teams up with the producer of “Who Killed the Electric Car?” for a rare all-access look at the festival for nonconformists when it’s at a crossroads.
SXSW ’13: Todd Sklar, Alex Rennie & James Pumphrey Show a Little Brotherly Love With “Awful Nice”
Stephen Saito @ www.moveablefest.com
- Excerpt: The creative team behind the Branson-set comedy talk about how the only thing more raucous than the humor in this film about two brothers is how it got made.
Festivals
10 Profane Pearls of Wisdom from Nick Cave’s SXSW Panel
2013 PIFF Awards Announced
Bev Questad @ It’s Just Movies
- Excerpt: With more than 37,000 attendees, 93 feature films and 42 shorts, the 36th year of PIFF was a tremendous success. Traditionally held in conjunction with the Portland Jazz Festival, Portland, Ore., is the place to be each February.
5 Lessons from Jeffrey Tambor’s Acting Workshop at SXSW 2013
7 Things You Didn’t Know About Harry Dean Stanton
Exclusive Interview: ’21 Jump Street’ Star Brie Larson Is Poised to Dominate SXSW
“The Punk Singer” Solves the Mystery — And Celebrates the History — of Kathleen Hanna
- Excerpt: Her work burns with that kind of intensity, with an insistence that she — and the things she had to say — had importance, value, meaning. That same intensity is present in The Punk Singer, which is both a captivating personal story and a history of a moment — as the best rock documentaries are.
Rendez-vous with French Cinema 2013
Kent Turner @ Film-Forward.com
SXSW 2013: Joss Whedon on Spinning from Marvel to Shakespeare
SXSW 2013: Oscar Winner Danny Boyle on Lying to Money Men and Playing with Genre
Tributes
Great directors: Roman Polanski
Marcio Sallem @ Em Cartaz [Portuguese]
Oscar Coverage
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Mar. 8-10, 2013
- Excerpt: A look at the Oscar chances for “Oz the Great and Powerful” and “Emperor.”
Other Articles
The Boy and the Moon
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Italian Short Film Review
Cinemarch Madness: Poll Overview
Sarah D Bunting @ Tomato Nation
- Excerpt: Readers vote for the bleakest films of all time
Courtesy of SLIFR: Miss Jean Brodie’s Modestly Magnificent Matriarchally Manipulative Springtime-for-Mussolini Movie Quiz
Tony Dayoub @ Cinema Viewfinder
Eye For Books World Film Locations: Glasgow and Mamoulian: Life on Stage and Screen.
Fat Pizza
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
Iran threatens lawsuit over Argo: propaganda allegations also surround Red Dawn
Jim Carrey, Chloë Moretz and Aaron Taylor-Johnson are Amateur Crusaders in “KICK-ASS 2” [Video]
Johnny Depp as Greasepaint “Injun”?
- Excerpt: Who over at Central Casting could have thought it was a good idea to have Depp slather himself in bronze body makeup to play an Indian?
Joseph Gordon-Levitt Faces Off Against Tony Danza in a White T-Shirt Contest in “DON JON” [PHOTOS]
Scams, lies and videotape: film fraudsters are convicted.
Who are the Best Non-American Actresses Working Today? [“Cinema in Noir”]
Why Hollywood Genre Flicks Need Korean Film, Not Korean Filmmakers
Peter Gutierrez @ Modern Korean Cinema
- Excerpt: I want multiplex fare in my hometown to display the same boldly emotional yet smart and personal aesthetic that I continuously find in mainstream Korean films.
