OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
10 Best Warner Brothers Gangster Films
Beth Accomando @ About.com Hollywood Movies
- Excerpt: Little Caesar was the first gangster film with sound and the first in a cycle of gangster films from Warner Brothers. The films represented a shift in the studio’s focus toward more gritty and realistic storylines, and soon branded the company as “The Gangster Studio.”
Best Action Films of 2012
Beth Accomando @ About.com Hollywood Movies
- Excerpt: Dance and action are all about kinetic energy and the body in motion, and therefore are perfectly suited to motion pictures. So a great action film offers not just an adrenaline rush but a breathtaking piece of cinematic poetry.
Best of 2012: The 14 Best Films of the Year
Tony Dayoub @ Cinema Viewfinder
Best of FrightFest 2012
Beth Accomando @ About.com Hollywood Movies
- Excerpt: The terrifyingly talented twins from Canada, Jen and Sylvia Soska, deliver the most original film of the festival with American Mary.
Christopher Bourne’s Top Films of 2012 – Breaking News: Cinema Is Not Dead
- Excerpt: As far as I’m concerned, 2012 in film was an embarrassment of riches in unique visions and immense talent that do a much better job of countering the premature writers of cinema’s obituary than I ever could.
Loopers, Wallflowers, and Tigers: The Best of 2012
Thomas Spurlin @ ThomasSpurlin.com
Philip K. Dick Movies
Beth Accomando @ About.com Hollywood Movies
- Excerpt: Blade Runner came out just after sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick died in poverty. Ironically, the film brought Dick a popularity he never knew in life.
SDG’s Top Films of 2012
Steven Greydanus @ National Catholic Register
- Excerpt: I’ve known since seeing it last April that my favorite film of the year would almost certainly be the latest film from Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, the Belgian brothers recently honored with the Robert Bresson Prize, given each year by the Pontifical Councils for Culture and Social Communications to filmmakers whose work attests to the human search for spiritual meaning in life. After that, though, there’ve been a lot of tough calls.
Top 10 Most Revealing Films About Strippers
Beth Accomando @ About.com Hollywood Movies
- Excerpt: Stripper, peeler, exotic dancer… whatever you call them, Hollywood loves them. Having a stripper — male or female — as a central character allows for all sorts of formulaic conventions Hollywood adores.
Top 20 Films of 2012
Interviews
Alexandra Pelosi: “If it’s guilt or shame, Jim McGreevey’s actually doing some good in the world”
- Excerpt: Pelosi opines on her latest documentary, faith, family, the media and …
Damien Echols and Lorri Davis on “West of Memphis”
Frank Swietek @ One Guy’s Opinion
Destin Cretton Is Not a Hipster
Don Lewis @ Film Threat
Family ties – Sister review
Simon Miraudo @ Quickflix
This Is 40
Don Lewis @ Film Threat
Threat level midnight – Zero Dark Thirty review
Simon Miraudo @ Quickflix
Festivals
“Mother of George” Star Isaach De Bankolé Gushes Over the Art of Fillmmaking at Sundance
Bill Pullman Discusses the Joys of Indie Filmmaking and His New Sundance Film, “May in the Summer”
Cinema in Noir Interview with Independent Spirit Award Nominee and “Middle of Nowhere” Star David Oyelowo
Directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman Talk “Lovelace”
Octavia Spencer, Evan Rachel Wood and Other Stars Debut New Films at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival
Oscar Coverage
Cole Smithey Predicts the 2013 Oscars
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: Of the nominations for Best Motion Picture, you can rest assured that Quentin Tarantino’s genre masterpiece “Django Unchained” will remain unfettered by the weight of any stinking award.
Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 8
- Excerpt: Looking at the winners and losers of the Oscar precursors for the 8th week of the season.
Other Articles
Beowulf and the Fleeting Riches of Motion Capture
Carson Lund @ Are the Hills Going to March Off?
- Excerpt: What Zemeckis has always understood better than other technologically high-minded, action-mad peers [is this]: the creation of chaotic spectacle need not necessitate a negation of classical narrative visual language. That Zemeckis manages to maintain clarity of the [film]’s obvious, if somewhat narrow-minded, narrative goals and indulge in a radical anything-goes technology at the same time is to be commended.
Exit Lines: Golden Boy
- Excerpt: Review of the Broadway revival, the basis for the 1939 film.
Film Threat Podcast – Episode 78 – A New Year
Don Lewis @ Film Threat
Jan. 22 Blu-ray/DVD releases
Phil Villarreal @ Becauseitoldyouso.com
Panoramic Vision: Classic Widescreen Cinema at the Webster University Film Series
Andrew Wyatt @ Look / Listen (St. Louis Magazine)
- Excerpt: Webster has elected to focused on a particular visual niche with “Taking It All In,” presenting films that take maximal advantage of aspect ratios of 2:20 and wider.
Screen World Revisited
Betty Jo Tucker @ Movie Addict Headquarters
- Excerpt: Barry Monush, author/editor of Screen World 2011, discusses his work on the latest volume of this beloved film anthology.
