OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
5 Favorites #138: Films About Alien Invasions
Interviews
Charming Enthusiasm and Inherent Heartbreak: Dean Fleischer Camp on Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
- Excerpt: I feel like there’s such a special magic that is created when you combine stop motion animation, which is one of the most labor-intensive forms of art on the planet, with that really off-the-cuff-sounding, very authentic, spontaneous audio. That’s part of the magic that we bottled in the shorts.
Flashback: Gore Verbinski on pirates, Johnny Depp, Keith Richards, and the end of an era
James Plath @ Family Home Theater
- Excerpt: Day after day we were operating amid 100-mile-per hour winds, cascading rain and debris, dearening cannon fire, with 150 sword-wielding stuntmen battling across two undulating vessels on the largest gimbals ever constructed for filming.
Flashback: Vincent Price talks about high art . . . and low art
James Plath @ Family Home Theater
- Excerpt: . . . about 70 percent of Poe’s work is satiric. It is not horror. It is not thriller.
Essays
Call Me by Your Name Gave the Fatherly Advice Every Queer Kid Needed to Hear
Awards Coverage
95th Academy Award Predictions: Best Actor
Travis Burgess @ The Sacred Wall
- Excerpt: A first look at the Best Actor race, from ‘Elvis’ to ‘The Killers of the Flower Moon,’
95th Academy Award Predictions: Best Actress
Travis Burgess @ The Sacred Wall
- Excerpt: A first look at this year’s Best Actress race, from Ana de Armas to Olivia Colman
The Friday Face-Off, The Ultimate List – Week #6
Poll: Remaking Best Directing, 2011
Upcoming Film Previews
Alone Together, Updated
Amsterdam
Beast
Clerks III
Day Shift
The Legend of Molly Johnson
Luck
Festival Coverage (Individual or Group Reviews)
New York Asian Film Festival 2022, Part One: Lesson in Murder, Legendary in Action! & The Funeral
- Excerpt: The NYAFF is always a great chance to check out some extraordinary films that might not otherwise screen widely in this country. Read on for my thoughts on the first three films I saw as part of this year’s lineup: a dark Japanese thriller, an energetic tribute to wuxia movies from Hong Kong, and a Taiwanese horror flick that unfortunately disappointed me in a big way.
Other Types of Articles
The 2022 Tribeca Film Festival
Erik Childress @ Now Playing Network
- Excerpt: This year’s Tribeca Film Festival contained a number of noteworthy documentaries and some new features by rising filmmakers. Erik Childress is joined by Peter Sobczynski to discuss 16 of these films.
Don’t Make Me Hear the Crawdads Sing
Erik Childress @ Now Playing Network
- Excerpt: Real life trumps fiction this week on the movie review edition of the podcast. Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy discuss seven new movies including revisiting two of the best documentaries from the festival circuit this year.
The Friendship Dilemma – Mad Max: Fury Road
Erik Childress @ Now Playing Network
- Excerpt: A perfect movie demands the perfect guests so Morgan Gire and Erik Childress invited colleagues Nick Digilio (of The Nick D Podcast) and Collin Souter (of the Christmas Movies Actually podcast) to join in their discussion of George Miller’s 2015 masterpiece. The central focus, as always, is on the evolving friendship of Furiosa and Max.
Why Do You Like 4K? Because It’s Clean
Erik Childress @ Now Playing Network
- Excerpt: Sergio Mims returns to the show to look at what is new out there in Blu-ray land. Along with Erik Childress they discuss some tremendous new 4K titles from Sony and Criterion.
