OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
5 Favorites Redux #103: The Crew of Last Night in Soho
Interviews
New Waves Around the World: Interview with TCM Host Alicia Malone
- Excerpt: Turner Classic Movies is shining a spotlight on cinematic “New Waves” from around the world during the months of October and November. I sat down (virtually) with Malone to discuss the importance of TCM airing international classics alongside Hollywood movies, our personal introductions to the cinematic New Waves, and what makes the movement in her native Australia stand out.
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
Daniel Schindel @ Hyperallergic
- Excerpt: The medium keeps evolving, but I believe that sort of longing will be a constant for as long as there are humans interacting with the screen.
Festivals: Individual Reviews
Being Bebe
- Excerpt: Some of the most meaningful moments in Being Bebe involve the performer interacting with his family, who are warmly supportive of him and suitably impressed by his stage performances. It’s a particularly welcome inclusion considering the homophobia that is rampant in Cameroon (which is referenced several times).
Bring Down the Walls
- Excerpt: It’s no accident that house music is featured in Bring Down the Walls: the genre was created by largely marginalized communities, including queers and people of color, at the same time as the policies of mass incarceration for minor offenses, including things like marijuana possession, became common in the United States.
Death and Bowling
- Excerpt: [Death and Bowling] mixes genres to good effect—an apparently naturalistic segment will be broken up with moments that seem to have wandered in from a horror movie, the lighting in an ordinary location will be more appropriate to that of a discotheque—and uses a variety of odd cuts, framings, and camera styles to ensure that you will never think you’re watching a Hollywood movie.
Invisible: Gay Women in Southern Music
- Excerpt: Things are better today than they were in 1970—in part because there are more ways to reach an audience outside the traditional country channels—but the mainstream, big-money country scene has hardly budged.
Parallel Mothers
- Excerpt: In Parallel Mothers, two women who give birth at the same time in the same hospital find their fates intertwined; one of the women is simultaneously working to have her great-grandfather’s body exhumed from the mass grave in which she believes he lies. In exploring their attempts to create an altogether modern type of family in the looming shadow of the past, Almodóvar reminds us that without truth, openness, and honesty, one can never truly move on from tragedy.
Awards Coverage
The Friday Face-Off, Losers Bracket (Losers), Round 2 #1
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Oct. 22-24, 2021
Poll: Remaking Best Makeup & Hairstyling, 2009
Essays
An Ode to Horror TV Movies of the 1970s
Film Reviews, Creativity & Art
Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Excerpt: Because all art forms converge in the movies, shouldn’t a film review be an art form of its own? At least it’s certainly worth a try.
