OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
5 Favorites #107: Disney Animated Films of the 21st Century
Festivals: General Coverage
‘ Alcindo’ vence Grande Prémio Caminhos do Cinema Português
Paulo Portugal @ Insider [Portuguese]
Caminhos 27ª edição: a ‘queima das fitas’ na cátedra do Cinema Português
Paulo Portugal @ Insider [Portuguese]
Awards Coverage
The Friday Face-Off, Losers Bracket (Losers), Round 2 #5
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Nov. 19-21, 2021
Poll: Remaking Best Makeup & Hairstyling, 2013
Essays
A Study in Disney: “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: Where do we find ourselves today in the pantheon of cancel culture and the ferocity of 21st century feminism? It is important, perhaps, to remember that Snow White was a portrait of the expectation of the times, of a matronly figure whose expected goal was to remain pure and virginal and keep chugging along until her prince came alone to sweep her off her feet.
A Study in Disney: ‘Bambi’
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: Bambi isn’t specifically about death, but it is such a massive part of the experience that it leaves questions lingering in your mind. What the film suggests is that the death of Bambi’s mother is not the trajectory but an integral part of the experience.
A Study in Disney: ‘Dumbo’
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: Dumbo’s only safety net is his mother and so, true to the Disney tradition, she is taken away from him. Disney’s idea of parent-child relationship was always complicated.
A Study in Disney: ‘Fantasia’
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: The hard lesson was that art and commerce are always squabbling siblings. Art may have the brains, but commerce has all the muscle.
A Study in Disney: ‘Pinocchio’
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: The enduring quality of Pinocchio is that it isn’t afraid to travel the darker spaces of growing up. It’s a scary film, but certainly not without purpose.
Other Types of Articles
Mass (2021)
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: There is a vibrating tension under almost every minute of Fran Kranz’s Mass which exists entirely based on its subject matter. I walked into the movie cold and I hope that you might do the same, but realizing that writing a review without spoilers in a movie like this might prove impossible.
