OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
2014 in Review: The Best So Far
- Excerpt: Top picks for the best films and performances of 2014 include ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’, ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’, Colin Firth, Anne Dorval, and more!
Enjoy Your Stay: The Top 10 Movies About Hotels/Motels
Frank Ochieng @ Sound on Sight
- Excerpt: Interestingly, big screen hotels and motels almost play an important part as an extra movie character in addition to serving as a backdrop to the proceedings.
Trouble With a Cause: The Top 10 Movie Rebels
Frank Ochieng @ Sound on Sight
- Excerpt: Now what would the movies be like if everybody on the big screen was a conformist and blandly played by the rules?
Trouble With a Cause: The Top 10 Movie Rebels
Frank Ochieng @ Sound on Sight
- Excerpt: Now what would the movies be like if everybody on the big screen was a conformist and blandly played by the rules? Every now and then it can be quite therapeutic to have a bad apple shape our rigid outlook with a dosage of cynicism in cinema.
The Worst Movies I Have Seen So Far: 1914-2014
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: These films are not just horrendous, these films are I think Satanic.
Year in Review – Halftime 2014
Kenji Fujishima @ In Review Online
Interviews
Better the Mick Taylor You Know: John Jarratt on Wolf Creek 2
Blake Howard @ Graffiti With Punctuation
Carl Deal and Tia Lessin of “Citizen Koch
Deliver Us From Evil Director Scott Derrickson
Billy Donnelly @ This Is Infamous
Deliver Us From Evil’s Edgar Ramirez
Billy Donnelly @ This Is Infamous
Felix Vasquez Jr., publisher and editor, Cinema Crazed, Bronx, N.Y.
Phil Hall @ Business-Superstar.com
- Excerpt: Interview with OFCS writer Felix Vasquez Jr.
James Ward Byrkit of “Coherence”
John Jarratt’s Five Star Film: Pulp Fiction
Blake Howard @ Graffiti With Punctuation
Michael Ealy and Meagan Good of “Think Like a Man Too”
Robert May of “Kids of Cash”
Scott Derrickson
Steven Greydanus @ National Catholic Register
- Excerpt: Scott Derrickson is a very nice guy who makes movies about things that aren’t very nice.
Scott Derrickson: The Epic Video Interview! Transformers! More!
Steven Greydanus @ National Catholic Register
- Excerpt: The full Reel Faith video version of my interview with the director of Deliver Us From Evil … plus Reel Faith reviews of the new Transformers flick and the first-ever “abortion rom-com.”
Who’s Afraid of Misery: Not John Jarratt
Blake Howard @ Graffiti With Punctuation
Festivals: Individual Reviews
Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts 19th Annual French Film Festival – Abuse of Weakness
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: The entire film has an underlying S&M theme that is more potent than Maud’s final interpretation of her own behavior.
Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts 19th Annual French Film Festival – Grand Central
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: http://www.reelingreviews.com/grandcentral.htm
Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts 19th Annual French Film Festival – Jealousy
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: director Philippe Garrel (“Regular Lovers”) uses his uber-brooder son Louis as the pivot for a typically French carousel of morphing romantic relationships.
Palm Springs ShortFest 2014 – Closing Night
- Excerpt: Closing night awards and films plus One in Five
Palm Springs ShortFest 2014 – Cons & Consequences
- Excerpt: From little white lies to incredible whoppers—what can anyone believe anymore?
Palm Springs ShortFest 2014 – For Art’s Sake
- Excerpt: Six films themed around art
Palm Springs ShortFest 2014 – Four Random Shorts
- Excerpt: Viewing outside the box
Palm Springs ShortFest 2014 – Games that People Play
- Excerpt: With the six productions that comprise Games People Play, the effects of all utterances—digital or vocal—come under a variety of microscopes.
Palm Springs ShortFest 2014 – Opening Night
- Excerpt: Opening night films and The Palace that I Live in
Palm Springs ShortFest 2014 – When Cultures Collide
- Excerpt: Five films from various countries
Tributes
Paul Mazursky
Tony Dayoub @ Cinema Viewfinder
Awards Coverage
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Jun. 27-29, 2014
- Excerpt: Looking at the Oscar chances for “Transformers: Age of Extinction” and “Snowpiercer”
Thylacine
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: US Short Film Review
Tuesdays With Oscar: 1940
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: 1939 is the Greatest Year in Film History. However, looking at 1940, it wasn’t that bad either.
Tuesdays With Oscar: 1941
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: The 14th Annual Academy Awards have it all: retroactive Oscars, major snubbing, backstage politics, and even sibling rivalry (which not even death fully healed).
Television
The Americans: COMINT
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: In fact, COMINT really was Russell’s show from beginning to end…
The Americans: Trust Me
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: Trust Me was one wild hour of The Americans, giving us more and more danger and thrills than most television series have.
Californication
Essays
Are We Grading Certain Films on a Curve?
Second Screen Experience: Nail in coffin for serious film-goer?
- Excerpt: Na’t CineMedia courts cell phone users — death knell for serious film-goers?
Yes, Hollywood Needs to #HireTheseWomen
Reviews of Short Films
Catarina e os Outros
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
Chaser
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: US Short Film Review
Velvet Road
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: US Short Film Review
Other Articles
Exit Lines: The Killer
- Excerpt: Review of Michael Shannon Off Broadway.
The French Connection
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: [VIDEO ESSAY] William Friedkin’s 1971 crime drama is unlike any other.
The Graduate
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: [VIDEO ESSAY] The otherness that Ben feels points to the film’s most overlooked and underappreciated aspect; Ben is a Jew passing as an all-American WASP at a time in America when discrimination against Jews was prevalent.
Happy Canada Day: Recommendations for Canada Day Viewing
- Excerpt: Celebrating Canada Day with tips and short films.
Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction Films of 1964: A-D
Steve Biodrowski @ Cinefantastique Online
- Excerpt: First installment of a (hopefully) complete list.
The Legend of Drunken Master
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: VIDEO ESSAY] Jackie Chan’s gravity defying execution of drunken boxing finds his character endowed with super powers in relation to how much booze he drinks.
The Morning After: Jun. 30, 2014
- Excerpt: Short reviews of “The Terminator” and “Terminator 2: Judgment Day”
Nell Minow Rates Teachers on Film
Betty Jo Tucker @ Movie Addict Headquarters
- Excerpt: A spirited podcast discussion with critic Nell Minow about her upcoming book, “Must-See Movies: Teachers.”
The Vanishing
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: [VIDEO ESSAY] George Sluizer’s spellbinding adaptation of Tim Krabbé’s horror novella “The Golden Egg” is such an expertly layered suspense thriller than it serves as a textbook archetype of the genre.
Venus in Fur
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: [VIDEO ESSAY] Roman Polanski’s 20th film is an exquisite deconstructionist articulation of a quicksilver sadomasochistic tug-of-war between a middle-aged theater director and an enigmatic actress auditioning for a role in his upcoming play
