OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 5 best movies
Marcio Sallem @ Em Cartaz [Portuguese]
Interviews
Phil Hall on The Greatest Bad Movies of All Time
- Excerpt: In creating the book, I wanted to offer the full depth and scope of the anti-classic experience. Thus, I brought together silent films that achieved profound awfulness without the benefit of spoken dialogue, documentaries that get their facts hopelessly screwed up, musicals that are weirdly off-key, biopics that turn the lives of their famous subjects into ludicrous travesties, comedies where the only laughs are unintentional, experimental films that self-destruct under their artistic pretensions, science-fiction that fails to capture the imagination, and one porno film that offers absolutely nothing that is even vaguely erotic.
Ryan Amon, Composer of “Elysium”
- Excerpt: I was living in Bolivia, where my wife’s family is, on a different continent when I got the email from [director] Neil Blomkamp, who was in Vancouver. He had come across a YouTube video that a trailer music fan had posted.
Sharknado Screenwriter Thunder Levin
- Excerpt: “It’s called ‘Sharknado.’ We can’t go too far.”
Oscar Coverage
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Aug. 2-4, 2013
- Excerpt: Looking at the Oscar chances of “The Spectacular Now.”
Other Articles
The Counselor trailer
The Good House casting
Last Temptation Turns Twenty-Five
Kenneth R. Morefield @ Christianity Today
- Excerpt: Whichever version you accept (or remember), The Last Temptation marked a tipping point in the American “culture wars.”
Linda Lovelace Survives “Deep Throat” Preem … Barely
Margaret O’Brien—Meet Me in St. Louis (Essential Film Performances 2013 Update: Musical/Comedy Edition)
Oblivion, Pikmin 3 and other new releases
Phil Villarreal @ COEDMagazine.com
Retrovisor
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Sharksploitation! Error of the Deep
The Super-Secret Film Critic Cabal
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
Twist of Lemon
Betty Jo Tucker @ Movie Addict Headquarters
- Excerpt: Chris Lemmon talks about “A Twist of Lemmon,” the acclaimed memoir he wrote about Jack Lemmon, his famous father.
Zé da Branca na Aldeia Assombrada
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
