OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
5 Favorites Redux #64: Favorite Political Films
The Best Films of 2020
The Sundance 2021 Movies We Can’t Wait to See
- Excerpt: Each and every year, figuring out what to watch at the Sundance International Film Festival is a journey in and of itself.
Interviews
Interview With Ameen Nayfe, Promissing Director Responsible for 200 Meters, Jordan’s Entry for the Foreign Film Oscar
- Excerpt: Interview With Ameen Nayfe, Promissing Director Responsible for 200 Meters, Jordan’s Entry for the Foreign Film Oscar
Interview With Anne Paulicevich, The Amazing Director of Working Girls, the Drama that amazed Belgium
- Excerpt: Interview With Anne Paulicevich, The Amazing Director of Working Girls, the Drama that amazed Belgium and it’s the country’s entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar
Interview With Barbara Paz, Famous Brazilian Actress and Director of Babenco
- Excerpt: Interview With Barbara Paz, famous Brazilian actress and director of Babenco, a strong documentary about director Hector Babenco, Barbara’s late husband. Babenco is Brazil’s entry for the Foreign Film Language Oscar and candidate to the Oscar of Best Documentary,
Interview With Eché Janga, the Amazing Director of Buladó, Netherland’s Entry for the Foreign Language Film Oscar
- Excerpt: Interview With Eché Janga, a Promissing Director from Curacao that recently launched “Buladó”, the Netherland’s Entry for the Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2021.
Interview With Elani Dekker, South African Actress and Star of Toorbos.
- Excerpt: Interview With Elani Dekker, South African Actress and Star of Toorbos, an Amazing Romantic Drama and South Africa’s Entry For the Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2021
Interview With Italian Director Alessio Liguori, a New Master of Italian Horror that Recently Directed Shortcut
- Excerpt: Interview With Italian Director Alessio Liguori, a New Master of Italian Horror. His new film, “Shortcut”, is now available on VOD and Streaming in the US.
Interview With Stiaan Smith, the Star of the romantic drama Toorbos
- Excerpt: Interview With Stiaan Smith, a great South African actor that recently starred in the romantic drama Toorbos, South Africa’s entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar
Interview with Vadim Perelman, the Director of Persian Lessons, Belarusian Oscar nominee
- Excerpt: Interview with Vadim Perelman, amazing film director of “House of Sand and Fog” that was nominated for 3 Oscars. In 2020, Perelman presented the acclaimed Persian Lessons, am Holocaust drama that was selected as Belorussia’s Oscar Entry
Festivals: Individual Reviews
African Violet (Boston’s MFA’s Festival of Films from Iran)
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Director Mona Zandi Haghighi tells a story based on her own aunt with humor, compassion and a phenomenal eye for color.
There Is No Evil (Boston’s MFA’s Festival of Films from Iran)
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: The filmmaker has a talent for creating a sense of dread in seemingly everyday circumstances, one which keeps the viewer guessing, every one of his four stories going in unexpected directions.
