OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
15 Times Great Actors Were Paired Together And Made A Dud
Behind-The-Scenes Stories From ‘Dead Poets Society’
Interviews
SXSW 2022 Is Back: Interview with “Long Line of Ladies” Directors Rayka Zehtabchi and Shaandiin Tome
Christopher Reed @ Film Festival Today
- Excerpt: Directors Rayka Zehtabchi (“Period. End of Sentence.”) and Shaandiin Tome (“Mud”) premiered their short documentary “Long Line of Ladies” at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival (where I covered it in our curtain raiser). In the film, they tell the tale of how the Karuk Tribe of northern California resurrected their long-defunct Ihuk, or Flower Dance Ceremony.
Every Character Has All These Layers: Graham Moore on The Outfit
- Excerpt: Mark actually got to train on his own costume for the movie. The suit that Mark learned how to make in his training was the suit that he then wore as his costume for the film.
Interview With Daisuke Miyazaki
- Excerpt: About the different approach implemented in the film, the cooperation with a number of rappers, Shinjuku, photo stills, the music, and other topics
Interview with Zhongbo Ren
Panagiotis Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: Sometimes there might be a misunderstanding, a situation that happens unintentionally. How to figure out a way to solve the problem might be more important than finding out who is right or wrong.
Essays
Dreamweaver: How Wayne’s World’s Cassandra Broke The Comedy Mould
- Excerpt: As Wayne’s World turns 30 years old, one of the most impressive and enduring parts of the buddy comedy remains the groundbreaking impact of Tia Carrere’s Cassandra.
An Open Letter to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
Awards Coverage
94th Oscars Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 15
94th Oscars: The Polls – Best Adapted Screenplay
94th Oscars: The Polls – Best Animated Short Film
94th Oscars: The Polls – Best Documentary Short Subject
94th Oscars: The Polls – Best Original Screenplay
94th Oscars: The Polls – Best Original Song
94th Oscars: The Polls – Best Supporting Actor
94th Oscars: The Polls – Best Supporting Actress
Good BAFTA, Bad BAFTA: Whose Oscar Race is Heating Up?
- Excerpt: A lot at how the results of the 2022 BAFTA awards indicate the Oscar race
Poll: Remaking Best Animated Feature, 2013
The Rundown 2021: Actress
The Rundown 2021: Animated Feature
The Rundown 2021: Animated Short Film
The Rundown 2021: Costume Design
The Rundown 2021: Visual Effects
Upcoming Film Previews
Preview: Alice
Preview: DC League of Super-Pets, updated
Preview: Fear
Preview: Master
Preview: Measure of Revenge
Preview: Morbius, updated
Preview: Mothering Sunday, updated
Preview: The Contractor
Preview: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, updated
Preview: Umma
Preview: Windfall
Festival Coverage (Individual or Group Reviews)
22nd Boston Underground Film Festival – Nitram
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: The film has been divisive in its native Australia, but Kurzel and Grant have succeeded in delivering both a strong gun law message and artistic achievement.
22nd Boston Underground Film Festival – The Innocents
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: a suspenseful horror film, one which acknowledges both the cruelty and purity of children developing social skills… Much like Belgium’s Oscar submission “Playground,” the isolation of children within their own world is startlingly realized.
Reviews of Short Films
Bagmati River
- Excerpt: “Bagmati River” is a very beautiful and meaningful short, quite different from the previous works of Matsumoto and particularly “Noise”, and thus a rather intriguing work that makes his next endeavor something to really look for.
Natsuko
Panagiotis Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: “Natsuko” is a great short, an excellent beginning for Iijima’s filmmaking career, and a testament to the fact that she absorbed the “lessons” she got from her career as an actress and particularly her collaborations with Anshul Chauhan, in the best way possible.
Tris
- Excerpt: “Tris” is a rather entertaining short that truly shows that Djenar Maesa Ayu should soon move to features.
Other Types of Articles
Let’s Talk Spoilers – ‘The Batman’
- Excerpt: The newest Let’s Talk Spoilers is now live! Today we talk about The Vengeance, The Night, The Batman. Check it out.
Is ‘Peacemaker’ Set Before Or After ‘The Flash’?
- Excerpt: Is Peacemaker set before or after The Flash? Read the article below to find out our thoughts!
