OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
5 Favorites Redux #23: Favorite Stage Adaptations
The Best Films of 2020 (So Far)
Candice Frederick @ Harper’s Bazaar
Interviews
Advocates for Democracy: Barak Goodman and Chris Durrance on “Slay the Dragon”
- Excerpt: In an interview with RogerEbert.com the directors talked about being “advocates for democracy,” the power of social media in pushing back against dark money, and making the arcane, data-heavy story of gerrymandering accessible and cinematic.
After 60 Years in Hollywood, Glynn Turman Is Still Trying New Things
Candice Frederick @ Shondaland
Interview with Eliza Hittman about Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Nell Minow @ Alliance of Women Film Journalists
- Excerpt: I think stories about teenagers are very universal. They can speak to a young audience, but it’s also very easy for an adult audience to watch them and look back and reflect and identify. So, I think that the films that I make specifically speak to young people, but also to an adult audience.
This Incredible, Unusual, Really Unique Sort of Hook: George Nolfi on The Banker
- Excerpt: And we were both so amazed at what these guys accomplished, and we also felt like there was this incredible, unusual, really unique sort of hook where you reverse all the stereotypes and you have these two amazing African-American men, despite all the racism around them, My Fair Lady-ing, as it were, a white guy to be their front.
Awards Coverage
Poll: Remaking Best Supporting Actress, 2011
Essays
Greyhound: In praise of a great trailer
- Excerpt: Isolation can find you doing funny things and I have become obsessed with the trailer for Tom Hanks’ Greyhound….
Reviews of Short Films
Vitae
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish/Mexican Short Film Review
Other Types of Articles
Easter Parade Tribute
Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Excerpt: MGM’s 1948 EASTER PARADE is sheer entertainment from beginning to end!
