OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
2013 So Far: Midterm Top 10
Tony Dayoub @ Cinema Viewfinder
The Best and Worst Films of 2013 So Far
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay
Half-Time Top 10
Edwin Davies @ A Mighty Fine Blog
- Excerpt: Six months into the year, it’s important to take stock and try to figure out just what kind of a year it’s been. Here is my Top 10 for the first half of 2013.
Tom Cruise’s five best movies
Marcio Sallem @ Em Cartaz [Portuguese]
Year in Review – Halftime 2013
Kenji Fujishima @ In Review Online
Interviews
Frankenstein unbound: Richard Raaphorst on Frankenstein’s Army
Greg “Freddy” Camalier of “Muscle Shoals”
- Excerpt: “Why didn’t they leave?” I asked. ”I am sure they could have had more opportunities and made more money in Los Angeles, New York, or Memphis. ”It is their home,” he said. ”They like it there. Their families are there. And the world came to them.”
Heitor Pereira, Composer of “Despicable Me 2″
Henry Jackman, composer for “Turbo” and “This is the End”
- Excerpt: One of the quickest ways to ruin this film would be goofy comedy music.
Nat Faxon and Jim Rash of “The Way, Way Back”
Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
Predicting a riot: Mike Lerner talks about his new documentary on Pussy Riot
Festivals
Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts’ 18th Annual French Film Festival
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: I’ve listed individual titles below, not sure how this is usually handled…..
TIFF’s Bitter/Sweet The Joyous Cinema of Jacques Demy Review: Ars (1959)
Matthew Blevins @ Nextprojection.com
Oscar Coverage
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Jun. 28-30, 2013
- Excerpt: Looking at the Oscar chances for “White House Down,” “Byzantium,” and “I’m So Excited.”
Other Articles
4M
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
A Vida de Rafi
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Documentary Short Film
Ana
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
Annie Hall
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: Inspired by Federico Fellini’s “8½”, “Annie Hall” contains the seeds of the deconstructionist template Woody Allen has avidly pursued throughout much of his career.
Cinema’s Craziest Characters
- Excerpt: Crazy characters for crazy times
City of God
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: “City of God” epitomizes the rich potential of cinema to tell richly textured tales, here of a vast, desperate, community of peasants consumed by an endless cycle of violence.
The Deer Hunter
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: Based on a spec script about people who go to Las Vegas to play Russian roulette, Michael Cimino and two other writers (Michael Seeley and Deric Washburn) developed the screenplay [“The Man Who Came to Play”] into a modern-day parable about the cost of the Vietnam war on personal terms. It is rare that a more relevant metaphor has served as the foundation for a movie of any genre.
Depp as Tonto: Debate Heats Up
- Excerpt: Readers of our previous column “Greasepaint Injun” weigh in — some pro, most con
Eulogy for a Multiplex
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
Exit Lines: The World’s A Stage
- Excerpt: Reviews of Much Ado About Nothing, and Barrymore on Broadway.
Exploring Johnny Depp’s Fall From Gonzo Grace
James Cagney Tribute Show
Betty Jo Tucker @ Movie Addict Headquarters
- Excerpt: Film critics A.J. Hakari, James Colt Harrison and Diane Saenger celebrate the movie career of James Cagney.
My Year of Chevy: One Guy’s Journey Through the Filmography of Chevy Chase
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
New Releases: Deadpool, Portlandia
Phil Villarreal @ COEDMagazine.com
The New Teaser Trailer For “Black Nativity” Tries To Get You In The Holiday Spirit
O Ciclo do Amor
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
PreviaMente
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
The Proper Care and Feeding of the Superhero Movie
Mike McGranaghan @ Film Racket
Safety Last!
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: The film’s 20-minute centerpiece sequence of Lloyd scaling the building against attacks by birds, netting, stray rope, and an unstable clock comprise the most emblematic episode in all of silent film. That the secrets of its spectacular staging were kept hush-hush until after Harold Clayton Lloyd’s death in 1971, only adds to the film’s lasting charm. The illusion of safety was never last.
Las Séxicas
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Shaft
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: The payoff scene involves Shaft swinging in through a window on a bright red climbing-rope — pistol blazing. Like the famous scene in “The Great Escape” where Steve McQueen jumps over the fence on a motorcycle, Shaft’s athletic expression of derring-do proves the point; “Shaft is a bad mother.”
Shame
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
Simetria
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
Trailer Watch: Aubrey Plaza Tries to Swipe Her V-Card for a Hot Blonde Fella in “The To Do List”
Unspoken Understanding
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
Voice Over
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Why Hollywood Wants You to Love Surveillance
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: As our country moves toward a totalitarian and fascist government regime operated by citizens who unknowingly participate in their own confinement, it’s clear that the people most able to comfortably endure absolute control by surveillance will be consumers who take their routinely prescribed medicine and dutifully return for more. Hollywood will surely hold our hands through it all. And according to box-office ticket sales, complete control by surveillance is very amusing and entertaining indeed.
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Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Animated Short Film Review
