OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
Planetary Shock: How About Some Sci-Fi Rock?
Frank Ochieng @ Focus of New York Magazine
- Excerpt: Frank Ochieng’s Top Ten Sci-Fi/Fantasy Tunes
Interviews
Angels In Stardust: An Interview with Alicia Silverstone
Dustin Freeley @ MoviesAboutGladiators.com
Blair Erickson on Banshee ChapterIt’s a Scream:
Christopher Lenneertz, Comedy Movie Composer
Kit Harington of “Game of Thrones” and “Pompeii”
Patrick Creadon of “If You Build It”
Festivals: General Coverage
DiverCiné wishes Ottawa ‘Bon cinéma!’
- Excerpt: Preview of Ottawa’s DiverCine: World Cinema from la Francophonie festival.
A Grand Old Time: GFF diary days 1&2: youth, shorts, the opening night, Jessica Oreck and a dinner you can’t refuse
Jouney to the Centre of the Earth
Jennie Kermode @ Eye For Film
Stars Come Out: GFF diary days 3 & 4: Lady Grinning Soul, Richard Dreyfus, Jack O’Connell, Richard Ayoarde, orgasmic dining and a hexagonal death match
Festivals: Individual Reviews
Berlinale 2014: Essayist, Essay Isn’t
Flesh of My Flesh
Kenji Fujishima @ The House Next Door
GFF 2014: Blue Ruin
Ross Miller @ Thoughts On Film
- Excerpt: A bold, brutal and tense film that won’t be soon forgotten and marks its director out as a talent to watch.
GFF 2014: Night Moves
Ross Miller @ Thoughts On Film
- Excerpt: An initially intriguing but ultimately slow and a curiously unsatisfying film that goes absolutely nowhere, preachy with its environmental messages and self-indulgent with how it goes about exploring them.
GFF 2014: Starred Up
Ross Miller @ Thoughts On Film
- Excerpt: This is a superbly acted, expertly judged tough-as-nails drama that’s absolutely brimming with tension and always riveting, one that firmly establishes O’Connell as one of British cinema’s brightest young acting talents.
GFF 2014: The Double
Ross Miller @ Thoughts On Film
- Excerpt: The simultaneously futuristic and vintage production design, performances and surreal, other worldly atmosphere are just about enough sustain a film that never feels sure of what it wants to be, what it wants to say or how it wants to say it.
GFF 2014: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Ross Miller @ Thoughts On Film
- Excerpt: A beautifully designed delight, filled with great performances of characters that are a joy to be around.
Metro Manila
Kenji Fujishima @ The House Next Door
Essays
Dead Poets Society Doesn’t Owe Academia Anything
- Excerpt: This was a PG-rated Disney movie, and if the script were instead an intricately detailed dramatization of “real analysis,” nobody would have made it, and if they did, nobody would have seen it. But people did see this movie, and scores of them were young eggheads like me, who were inspired not by its intellectual rigor, but by the very passion that The Atlantic piece disdains.
Destroy All Monsters: Paramount, Netflix And The End of the Physical World
Is ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ the Quintessential Wes Anderson Movie?
- Excerpt: What is fascinating about Anderson’s film (and Jonze’s, and, ultimately, Scorsese’s) is how little he had to adjust his vision to make a “kids’ movie.” In fact, there is an argument to be made that Fantastic Mr. Fox may be the purest distillation of Anderson’s specific, inimitable style.
Motifs in Cinema: Surrogate Families in 2013 Films
What I Feared Has Come Upon Me: “Hannibal” and the Tyranny of Terror
- Excerpt: Ultimately, when the white-knuckle thrills and clotted gore are peeled away, what remains of Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal is a harrowing depiction of the way that dread dominates human behavior and relationships.
The Wind Rises and the Problem with How We Weigh the Responsibility of Historical Fiction Films
Reviews of Short Films
Carrera de Fondo
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
It Doesn’t Get Better
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: US Short Film Review
Motivo de una Ruptura
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Oscar-Nominated Live Action Shorts
- Excerpt: ‘Just Before Losing Everything’ gets my vote!
Other Articles
The Morning After: Feb. 24, 2014
- Excerpt: A short review of “The Conversation”
Reeling in the Oscar Years
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee Coffee and more Coffee
