OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
11 Great Date Movies on Netflix
William Bibbiani @ CraveOnline
Top 10 Scottish Films
Interviews
Anthony Stacchi & Graham Annable on The Boxtrolls
William Bibbiani @ CraveOnline
- Excerpt: The directors of The Boxtrolls explain the origin of the film’s most terrible pun.
Antoine Fuquar
- Excerpt: Stefan Pape interviews The Equalizer director Antoine Fuquar.
Ben Miller
- Excerpt: Stefan Pape interviews British comedy actor Ben Miller on What We Did On Our Holiday.
Charles Band on Full Moon Features
William Bibbiani @ CraveOnline
- Excerpt: Join Charles Band, the director of Trancers and producer of the hit Puppet Master franchise, as he gets grilled by hosts William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold in the hallowed halls of the Full Moon offices, right next to Los Angeles’s historic Skid Row. You can really hear the sirens!
Guy Jenkin and Andy Hamilton
- Excerpt: Stefan Pape interviews writers and directors Guy Jenkin and Andy Hamilton on What We Did On Our Holiday.
Isaac Hempstead Wright on The Boxtrolls
William Bibbiani @ CraveOnline
- Excerpt: The ‘Game of Thrones’ star explains particle physics and says working with Sir Ben Kingsley was terrifying.
Mia Hansen-Løve (Eden)
Jordan M. Smith @ IONCINEMA.com
Mike Cahill
- Excerpt: Stefan Pape interviews director Mike Cahill on his sophomore feature, I Origins.
Rosamund Pike
- Excerpt: Stefan Pape interviews Rosamund Pike on What We Did On Our Holiday, and Gone Girl.
Season of Mists: Markuus Blunder on Autumn Blood
Festivals: General Coverage
Award Winners for the 2014 Ottawa International Film Festival
- Excerpt: OIAF 2014 winners include ‘Seth’s Dominion’ and ‘Hipoptamy’.
Composing Reality: Docs at the 2014 Ottawa International Animation Festival
- Excerpt: ‘Seth’s Dominion’ and ‘Truth has Fallen’ display innovative and unique approaches to composing truth through animation.
Drama Short Film Festival: Awards gala
Joseph Proimakis @ Popaganda.gr [Greek]
- Excerpt: Indie short film Prayer by Thanasis Neofotistos won top honors at the Greek section
OIAF 2014: ‘Festival Wrap-up and ‘Best of the Fest’.”
- Excerpt: Top picks for the 2014 Ottawa International Animation Festival
Festivals: Individual Reviews
’71
Kenji Fujishima @ Slant Magazine
Ankhon Dekhi
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Dwarves Kingdom
- Excerpt: Dwarves Kingdom, in spite of its borderline lurid content, is a well-balanced, dare I say sweet documentary. Everyone is treated with respect, there are no “gotcha” moments, the park’s benefactor, while surely exploiting his employees, doesn’t seem to have any nefarious ulterior motives, and the dwarves themselves seem largely appreciative of the opportunity to have this community.
Eden
Jordan M. Smith @ IONCINEMA.com
- Excerpt: His journey from bedroom production to massive dance halls and back again is a bittersweet, highly enjoyable though slightly over long saga of love, loss and addiction bathed in euphoric beats and pulsing neon lights. Fittingly, the opening line from Daft Punk’s recent smash “Get Lucky” aptly summarizes Eden’s agreeably unresentful ethos – “Like the legend of the phoenix / All ends with beginnings”.
Heaven Knows What
Kenji Fujishima @ Slant Magazine
Heaven Knows What
Jordan M. Smith @ IONCINEMA.com
- Excerpt: In the Safdie’s smack-addled world of dependence and dereliction, love is as much an iconoclastic phenomenon as heroin use, both yielding cataclysmic results in the face of desperation. Taking inspiration from drug culture classics like Kids and The Panic in Needle Park while portraying something altogether perversely original in its depiction of corporate America as neglectful homeless shelter, the Safdie’s latest film embraces the consternation of living on the streets to portray these forgotten souls with an emotionally overwhelming sense of the real.
Hill of Freedom
Kenji Fujishima @ Slant Magazine
I Am Here
- Excerpt: I Am Here may not be my favorite film of the year, but it’s certainly given me more to think about than most, and that’s a wonderful thing.
OIAF Review: ‘Aunt Hilda’
- Excerpt: Review of ‘Aunt Hilda’ (‘Tante Hilda’), which screened at the 2014 Ottawa International Animation Festival
OIAF Review: Disney’s ‘Feast’
- Excerpt: ‘Feast’, which screened at the Ottawa International Animation Festival, might be one of the best shorts that Disney Animation ever produced.
OIAF Review: ‘New Ghosts in the ‘Ol Haunt’
- Excerpt: Special programme at the Ottawa International Animation Festival features David Lynch, foxes, and ghost burgers.
OIAF Review: Pixar’s Lava
- Excerpt: Review of Pixar’s upcoming short film ‘Lava’, which screened at the 2014 Ottawa International Animation Festival
OIAF Review: Short Film Competition 1
- Excerpt: Highlights include 1000 Plateaus and ‘Monkey Love Experiment’
OIAF Review: Short Film Competition 2
- Excerpt: Highlights include ‘Pineapple Calamari’ and ‘Soif’
OIAF Review: Short Film Competition 3
- Excerpt: Highlights include ‘Lesley the Pony has an A+ Day’ and ‘We Can’t Live without Cosmos’
OIAF Review: Short Film Competition 4
- Excerpt: Highlights include ‘The Pride of Strathmoor’ and ‘Me and My Moulton’
OIAF Review: Short Film Competition 5
- Excerpt: Highlights include ‘The Obvious Child’
OIAF Review: ‘Until Sbornia do Us Part’
- Excerpt: Review of the wacky Brazilian animated film ‘Until Sbornia Do Us Part’
Wastelander Panda: Exile
- Excerpt: Victoria Cocks’ post-apocalyptic saga of an anthropomorphic panda trekking across a great barren wasteland in search of redemption is remarkably restrained in its treatment of this absurd concept.
Awards Coverage
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Sep. 19-21, 2014
- Excerpt: Looking at the Oscar chances for “The Zero Theorem”
Television
Black-Ish
- Excerpt: 5 Resonating Moments from Wednesday’s Series Premiere of BLACK-ISH – See more at: http://www.reeltalkonline.org/2014/09/5-resonating-moments-from-last-nights.html#sthash.2HWrkKzf.dpuf
Destroy All Monsters: GOTHAM and the Cult of “Before”
Doctor Who – Time Heist
Edwin Davies @ A Mighty Fine Blog
- Excerpt: Continuing this season’s theme of dropping The Doctor and Clara into different genres and seeing how they fare, this is Doctor Who’s version of a heist movie, right down to the way the music at times resembles the cool yet vaguely nervy jazz that has become synonymous with sleek cinematic heists.
Father Brown
- Excerpt: The English anti-Catholicism regularly satirized in Chesterton’s stories is essentially moot here. Rather than a good-will ambassador of Romanism to Anglican and modernist readers, this Father Brown is a genial representative of enlightened faith to secular postmodern viewers — no bad thing in itself.
Years of Living Dangerously: The Complete Series
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: An Emmy Award-winning documentary series on the multifaceted consequences of climate change.
Essays
Stop-Motion Macabre
Steven Greydanus @ Catholic Digest
- Excerpt: The illusion of life never entirely suppresses the awareness that we are watching objects moving by themselves: puppets, dolls, toys. Any genre filmmaker knows the potential of innocent childhood things for creepiness.
Reviews of Short Films
Dancing In Dulais
Frei Luís de Sousa
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
Fucking Tøs
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Danish Short Film Review
I Love Hooligans
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Dutch/Belgian Animated Short Film Review
The Jigsaw
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
Other Articles
Matterhorn
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Dutch Feature Film
The Morning After: Sep. 22, 2014
- Excerpt: Short review of “The Maze Runner”
