OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
5 Favorites #131: John Malkovich
Interviews
Maya Cade Created The Black Film Archive With Love
Awards Coverage
95th Oscars: Upcoming Precursors – June
The Friday Face-Off, Winners
Oscar Preview: Weekend of May 27-29, 2022
Poll: Remaking Best Directing, 2004
Will You Still Love Us Tomorrow?: The Future of This Year’s Oscar Winners . . . or not!
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: I have decided to take a crystal ball to some of this year’s winners, first to remind everyone that indeed something DID happen at the 94th Academy Awards besides the Will Smith incident, and second to see if any of these films have staying power.
Upcoming Film Previews
Benediction
Cha Cha Real Smooth
Crimes of the Future
Downton Abbey: A New Era, Updated
Eiffel
Elvis, Updated
Jerry & Marge Go Large
Lost Illusions
Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning – Part One
The Phantom of the Open
Rubikon
Thor: Love and Thunder, Updated
White Elephant
Reviews of Short Films
Bird in the Peninsula
- Excerpt: “Bird in the Peninsula” is an excellent short, intricate in both context and presentation, and of the most interesting Japanese animations we have seen outside the anime industry.
Birdsaver Report Volume 2
- Excerpt: “Birdsaver Report Volume 2” is an interesting short that demands attention through its unique approach, although the combination of a style that points both towards an installation and a film, deem it a watch for a very specific audience.
Don’t Get Too Comfortable
- Excerpt: “Don’t Get Too Comfortable” may be perceived as too artsy, due to its overall cinematic approach, and the truth is that it is not a film addressed to any kind of mainstream audience. However, both the comments and the story here are quite interesting, while the economic duration and the fact that Al Tamimi makes it about more than just herself, allow the short to elevate far above the many video diaries, also because it emerges as not pretentious at all.
Good Placement of Seeds
- Excerpt: Truth be told, it is difficult to understand what exactly is happening here, but the artfulness, tension and overall energy are enough to make “Good Placement of Seeds” a more than interesting spectacle.
Warsha
- Excerpt: “Warsha” is an excellent short, that manages to present all its comments in the most intelligent and entertaining way, not omitting to highlight the fact that beauty can be found in the most unexpeccted places.
Other Types of Articles
Films That Changed Everything
Sean Axmaker @ Turner Classic Movies
- Excerpt: Before the 1950s, there were no teenagers in the movies, at least not in any way we understand the teenage years today….
Method Acting
Sean Axmaker @ Turner Classic Movies
- Excerpt: In the 1950s, a new kind of screen performance exploded in the movies. Stars like Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift and James Dean electrified audiences with a style that was both naturalistic and intense and could erupt in moments of volcanic emotion.
Stranger Things Season 4 – Vol. I Review
- Excerpt: Stranger Things 4 Vol. I is shaping up to be the most mature, developed, and interesting season of Stranger Things yet. The story is stimulating and the performances are great.
