OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad Max World
Robert Cashill @ Biography.com
- Excerpt: Fun facts about the Mad Max series.
Interviews
Alex Garland of “Ex Machina”
Bel Powley – A Royal Night Out
Helen Hunt on “Ride”
Nell Minow @ The Huffington Post
- Excerpt: It’s not like some lightning in a bottle you catch to create on-screen relationships. You work on it.
Hidden history: Felipe Bustos Sierra on Nae Pasaran and the Scottish workers who helped thwart Pinochet
Max Handelman – Pitch Perfect 2
Monika Henreid
Kristen Lopez @ Journeys in Classic Film
- Excerpt: Monika Henreid talks about her classic film father and honoring his memory.
Olivier Assayas – Clouds of Sils Maria
Rupert Everett – A Royal Night Out
Sarah Gadon – A Royal Night Out
Festivals: General Coverage
aNewDomain Presents Cole Smithey in Cannes 2015
Cole Smithey @ colesmithey.com
- Excerpt: [VIDEO ESSAY] The annual longing for Cannes is once again consummated. Let the screenings and festivities begin.
Television
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Robert Cashill @ http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/audio/the-john-hines-show/
- Excerpt: May 1 radio review
Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor
Daniel Lackey @ The Nightmare Gallery
- Excerpt: And now it’s time for one last bow, like all your other selves. Prepare for death and rebirth.
Maggie
Robert Cashill @ http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/audio/the-john-hines-show/
- Excerpt: May 8 radio reviews of Maggie, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Hot Pursuit
Video Essays, Reviews and More
aNewDomain Presents Cole Smithey in Cannes 2015: Day 1
Cole Smithey @ colesmithey.com
- Excerpt: [VIDEO ESSAY] The annual longing for Cannes is once again consummated. Let the screenings and festivities begin.
Essays
‘ Age of Ultron’ Opening Weekend: Insanely Huge, Quietly Disappointing, or Both?
- Excerpt: It’s the second-biggest domestic opening in history, more money than most movies — hell, most moviemakers — will generate in their entire lifetime. But the trouble is, it’s second to the first film, and if box-office analysis is about seeing patterns, this bucks the pattern of “Phase Two” of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Angst through Sex & Skype – It Follows & Unfriended
The Blockbuster Films You Didn’t Realise Owe Everything to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Destroy All Monsters: Why Everyone Thinks Piracy is OK
How Orson Welles Almost Made His Film Debut With an Innovative ‘Heart of Darkness’ Adaptation
- Excerpt: The most fascinating of the Welles movies that never happened would’ve been his first feature: an ambitious film adaptation of Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness,’ potentially as groundbreaking as ‘Kane,’ the film he settled on when ‘Darkness’ fell apart.
Leaked Sony Email Confirms Marvel’s Just as Clueless About “Female Movies” as You Thought
- Excerpt: These emails also provide a rare unguarded (and thus valuable) look at how the sausage is made; they’re a guide to exactly how Hollywood’s most powerful people view matters of race and the pay gap (and, in the latter case, said emails have provided artillery for demands of parity). And now, a bit of newly unearthed correspondence reveals just how dense the folks who make your comic book movies are about who wants to see them, and who they should be about.
Nothing Makes Sense: Dissecting the Worst Avengers: Age of Ultron Review in the World
Andrew Wyatt @ Gateway Cinephile
- Excerpt: This review compelled me to mount a defense of a film I wasn’t that enthusiastic about to begin with, a film marked by bad screenwriting, tiresome sexism, uninspired action, and so much executive monkeying that entire scenes seem to be missing. But, dammit, flawed filmmaking is no excuse for downright shitty criticism.
Reviews of Short Films
De Donde Viene el Viento
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Documentary Short Film Review
Deseo
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Garra Charrúa
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
GOW
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Mirame
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Pichangueros: Una Pasión de Barrio
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Chilean Short Documentary Review
Puño y Metal
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Documentary Short Film Review
Other Articles
Las Brujas de Zugarramurdi
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
