OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Interviews
Agyness Deyn and Terence Davies – Sunset Song
Annie Hardy and Louis Pelletier (Home Movie Day)
Mathieu Li-Goyette @ Panorama-cinéma [French]
Billy Ray on “Secret in Their Eyes”
- Excerpt: To me, the movie is about the cost of obsession.
Carol’s producers, Christin Vachon and Elizabeth Karlsen
Creed composer Ludwig Goransson
- Excerpt: Swedish composer Ludwig Goransson used the sounds of a boxing gym as percussion in his score for “Creed,” the new Rocky film.
Daniel Radcliffe and James McAvoy – Victor Frankenstein
Drafthouse Films’ Tim League on the “Earnest Otherworldliness” of ‘Dangerous Men’ and ‘Miami Connection’
- Excerpt: They’re terrible movies, but it’s not as simple as that; there’s something spellbinding about their incompetence, something that transcends schlock and enters the realm of mind-boggling fascination. Unable to pinpoint exactly what that common quality might be, I went to the source: Tim League, Alamo Drafthouse founder and Drafthouse Films CEO.
Erin Bernhardt, producer of “Imba Means Sing”
- Excerpt: the most joyful people I had ever met
Jay Roach on “Trumbo”
- Excerpt: If the soul of the country is to some extent at stake, that really improves the sense of suspense and puts more forces into play.
Kazuhiro Soda (Festival du nouveau cinéma)
Mathieu Li-Goyette @ Panorama-cinéma [French]
Robin Bittman
Kristen Lopez @ Journeys in Classic Film
Simon Pegg and Lake Bell on Subverting Rom-Com Conventions (and Dancing to Duran Duran) in ‘Man Up’
- Excerpt: I think a lot about the movies Ebert would’ve liked, and it seems safe to bet he would’ve enjoyed Ben Palmer’s Man Up — if for no other reason, then for the scene about a half hour in, when our heroine owns up to the deception she’s spent the first act of the movie pulling off. She clears it up in a few words, and then the movie deals with that.
Festivals: Individual Reviews
Blood in the Snow 2015: She Who Must Burn
Blood in the Snow 2015: The Dark Stranger
Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal
Mathieu Li-Goyette @ Panorama-cinéma [French]
Sherpa
MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Captures a burgeoning revolutionary spirit among a people who have been ignored, when they aren’t being taken advantage of, for too long.
Awards Coverage
Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 1
- Excerpt: A look at the winners and losers of Precursor Season, Week 1
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Nov. 26-29, 2015
- Excerpt: A look at the Oscar chances of “Creed,” “The Good Dinosaur” and “The Danish Girl”
Television
Destroy All Monsters: DOCTOR WHO Is A Hell Of A Bird
Doctor Who: The Woman Who Lived
- Excerpt: Well, it looks like things are back to normal on Doctor Who. By that I mean we get another bad episode, though to be fair The Woman Who Lived is what I would call a noble failure: good ideas rattling within its rubbish.
Doctor Who: The Zygon Invasion
Doctor Who: The Zygon Inversion
The Librarians: And the Broken Staff
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: And the Broken Staff continues The Librarians mix of wit and whimsy, unapologetically family-friendly entertainment that is fun and clever. The Librarians is a fantasy show, and by embracing its premise, it ends up being a fantastic show.
Essays
Cruising: Chases in William Friendkin and James Gray’s cinema
Diego Salgado @ Visual404 [Spanish]
Espion : figure de l’ombre
Mathieu Li-Goyette @ Panorama-cinéma [French]
First is the Worst: Looking at Critics’ Awards
Derek Deskins @ Next Projection
- Excerpt: These studios are not only concerned with those that vote in the prestigious Academy Awards (although admittedly that is the obvious endgame), they care about all those with voices loud enough to be considered relevant. In many cases, those voices are those of the film critics, or to be more specific: established groups of film critics.
La chute (on the closing of the “Excentris”)
Mathieu Li-Goyette @ Panorama-cinéma [French]
Reviews of Short Films
Alba
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Auyantepui
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Venezuelan/Spanish Short Documentary Review
Primero las Personas
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Documentary Review
Relación Abierta
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Sari Rosa
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Documentary Review
Viagem
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
Yulya
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
Other Articles
Cru
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Independent Feature Film Review
The Morning After: Nov. 30, 2015
- Excerpt: Short reviews of “Brooklyn,” “Shaun the Sheep Movie” and “The Good Dinosaur”
