OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
5 Favorites #52: Favorite Horror Films, Part 3
5 Favorites Redux #53: Focus Features Films
Festivals: Individual Reviews
Festival du nouveau cinéma – Apples / Undine
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Apples and Undine are two painfully relevant films in 2020: one about a pandemic, the other about a woman’s struggle against patriarchal myth.
I am Greta
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee, Coffee and more Coffee
- Excerpt: Setting aside the issues regarding climate change and any kind of agenda, I am Greta is also about the weight of celebrity.
NewFest 2020: Report 9
- Excerpt: Ben Anthony’s documentary Keith Haring: Street Art Boy offers a fresh and well-rounded look at Haring’s life and art, aided by unparalleled access to materials held by the Keith Haring Foundation.
Once Upon a Time in Venezuela
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee, Coffee and more Coffee
Shiva Baby
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee, Coffee and more Coffee
Spring Blossom
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee, Coffee and more Coffee
Under the Open Sky
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee, Coffee and more Coffee
- Excerpt: Under the Open Sky is notable for the tour-de-force performance by Koji Yakusho. Even if the name is not immediately familiar, even those not following Japanese cinema would have seen Yakusho in Babel or Memoirs of a Geisha.
Undine
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee, Coffee and more Coffee
- Excerpt: The film stars Paula Beer and Franz Rogowski, the two main actors in Petzold’s Transit. For myself, Undine is more successful than the previous film, where I think the filmmaker’s imagined updating worked against the realities of the source novel.
Awards Coverage
93rd Oscars: Upcoming Precursors – November
The Friday Face-Off, Losers Bracket Round One #12
Poll: Remaking Best Original Screenplay, 1998
Essays
Black Horror 101: A Brief History of African Americans in Horror Cinema
Mark Harris @ Black Horror Movies
Other Types of Articles
Actors Who Tried To Become Action Stars And Audiences Said ‘No Thanks’
Babylon Berlin Seasons 1-2
- Excerpt: One of the most interesting characters is Babylon Berlin is Charlotte Ritter (Liv Lisa Fries), who represents both the new freedom enjoyed by women in this period, and the discrimination which remained a fact of their existence.
Behind The Scenes Stories From The Making Of ‘Se7en’
Dolly Parton: A National Treasure
Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Excerpt: A songbird sings and Dolly hears then writes notes down with love and tears. Songs like JOLENE and 9 TO FIVE begin to breathe and come alive.
