OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
Best Bollywood Movies of 2015
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Facing the Bitter Truth Awards 2015
Alan Mattli @ Facing the Bitter Truth [German]
- Excerpt: I round off the year 2015 by presenting my very own awards nominations!
FilmWhinge’s Top Ten Films of 2015
- Excerpt: A good year for documentaries, performances and good old fashioned storytelling.
My Favorite Films of 2015
Carson Lund @ Are the Hills Going to March Off?
My Movie Year 2015
Marilyn Ferdinand @ Ferdy on Films
My Top Ten Films of 2015
Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
The Top 20 Best Movies I Saw in 2015
Kristen Lopez @ Journeys in Classic Film
- Excerpt: A list of the best first-time views and studio-era films I watched
The Top 20 Worst Films I Saw in 2015
Kristen Lopez @ Journeys in Classic Film
- Excerpt: A list of the worst first-time views and studio-era films I watched
Worst Bollywood Movies of 2015
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Awards Coverage
Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 6
- Excerpt: Looking at the winners and losers from Precursor Week 6.
Interviews
Acropolis Cinema Is L.A.’s Newest Experimental Film Venture
Daniel Schindel @ Los Angeles Magazine
Pilou Asbaek and Tuva Novotny – A War
Quentin Tarantino – The Hateful Eight
Essays
Destroy All Monsters: Because Leo Didn’t Win An Oscar For TITANIC, Leo Won’t Win An Oscar
Let’s Talk About the One Bad Scene that Kept ‘Inside Out’ From Greatness
- Excerpt: Like most of her contemporaries, our daughter is nuts about this movie; she watches at least part of it once a day, maybe more. And as I’ve spent more time with it over the past few weeks, I’ve had plenty of opportunities to contemplate why I love it so much, and yet didn’t put it on my own “Best of 2015” list.
When the Bough Breaks: Goodnight Mommy
- Excerpt: What exactly has the viewer witnessed by the conclusion of Goodnight Mommy: a malign interloper ferreted out by a pair of canny children, or a mother horribly abused by her own delusional sons?
Why Kurt Russell Has Become Our Ideal 21st Century Western Hero
- Excerpt: Hateful Eight’ is the second film in recent months – after ‘Bone Tomahawk,’ out this week on DVD and Blu-ray – to find a gloriously hairy Russell making his way through a Western tale. There’s something about the actor that just seems right in these films, that makes him fit there in a way few modern actors do.
Reviews of Short Films
Carne de Gaviota
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Hotel Bellevue
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: German Short Documentary Review
Karuppum Veluppum
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: UAE Short Film Review
Mahi va Man
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Iranian Short Film Review
Other Articles
Amor Impossível
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Feature Film
