OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
25 Essential Films of the 2010s
Roderick Heath @ Film Freedonia
- Excerpt: The last decade of cinema has skidded about like a seismograph chart, agonising, terrible, brilliant, endlessly inventive, profoundly lazy, embattled and almighty.
Interviews
Ed Skrein & Luke Kleintank on Playing Legendary Fighter Pilots in Midway
- Excerpt: ACTOR, INTERVIEWS, MOVIES Ed Skrein & Luke Kleintank on Playing Legendary Fighter Pilots in Midway NOVEMBER 4, 2019 Print BY NELL MINOW Midway is a stirring tribute to the immeasurable courage of the men we now call part of the Greatest Generation. Premiering on November 8, Veteran’s Day weekend, it is the story of the early days of WWII, from Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor to America’s first major battle victory in the Pacific, the battle of Midway. The all-star cast includes Woody Harrelson as Admiral Chester Nimitz, Dennis Quaid as Admiral William “Bull” Halsey, and Aaron Eckhart as Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle. But the thrilling air combat scenes are at the center of the film, with stars Ed Skrein and Luke Kleintank playing two of the most decorated Navy pilots of the war, Dick Best and Clarence Earle Dickinson respectively. In an interview with The Credits, they talked about their research Did you create your characters based on the script or did you do your own independent research? Ed Skrein: I’m always known to go head over heels into my research and leave no stone unturned.
Interview With Beth Moran, Director of the Short Film Missing a Note
João Pinto @ Portal Cinema [Portuguese]
Interview With Marie-Louise Damgaard, Swedish Star and Director of The Confirmation
João Pinto @ Portal Cinema [Portuguese]
Interview: Edward Norton on “Motherless Brooklyn”
- Excerpt: The book is set in 1999 and we made this big decision to take the essence of the character’s isolation, his relationship with his boss, with the guys around him, and to transpose it back into the ’50s because in the novel they feel like men living in this pocket of Brooklyn that hasn’t moved in time.
Interview: For All Mankind
- Excerpt: We said, “Okay, once the Russians beat us to the moon, what are the events that would change after that?”
Leslie Odom, Jr. Refuses to Take Success For Granted
Candice Frederick @ Shondaland
Paulo Carneiro sobre ‘Bostofrio’
Paulo Portugal @ Insider [Portuguese]
Festivals: Individual Reviews
1BR
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Marmor’s film is borne of a moment in history where a false sense of community among angry people threatens us all, to the core of our identities, and the struggle Sarah goes through is our struggle against forces that want us to either conform or be destroyed.
Bostofrio où le ciel rejoint la terre
Paulo Portugal @ Insider [Portuguese]
Denver Film Festival – A Final Roundup
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee, Coffee and more Coffee
A Girl Missing
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee, Coffee and more Coffee
- Excerpt: A Girl Missing primarily belongs to Mariko Tsutsui as Ichiko. For those who complain that there are few interesting roles for older actresses, Tsutsui, currently 59 years old, is able to play a woman who has moments with a total lack of inhibition.
Girl on the Third Floor
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: An impressively singular vision in the haunted house sub-genre of horror.
In the Quarry
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: A dark, taut exploration of how various forms of patriarchal control lead to ruin.
Latter Day Jew
Laughing
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee, Coffee and more Coffee
- Excerpt: Rather than depend on a more traditional form of exposition, Mastandrea demands that the audience pick up clues as to who the characters are, and their relationship to each other. The results is almost like eavesdropping on the conversations.
Marighella
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee, Coffee and more Coffee
- Excerpt: Marighella is the directorial debut of Wagner Moura, better known as the star of the Netflix series, Narcos as well as his role in the two Brazilian Elite Squad films.
Our Bodies Our Doctors
The Swerve
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Director-writer Dean Kapsalis digs into the destructive roles of domesticity we force onto women with Greek tragedy-level results.
The Traitor
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee, Coffee and more Coffee
- Excerpt: My immediate reaction to The Traitor is that it’s the gangster epic we didn’t know we were waiting for.
Awards Coverage
92nd Oscars: Documentary Feature Submissions
The Friday Face Off Round One #13
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Nov. 8-10, 2019
Poll: Remaking Best Production Design, 2010
Precursor: 11th Make-Up Artists Guild Nominations
Precursor: 32nd European Film Awards Nominations
Precursor: 4th Critics Choice Documentary Awards
Reviews of Short Films
Five Course Meal
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Buried Alive Film Festival coverage
Häuschen – A Herança (2019)
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
Hellevate
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Buried Alive Film Festival coverage
