OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Interviews
Dark Materials: Interview with Hans Herbots
A Girl, of Fil: Interview with Doona Bae
Festivals: General Coverage
The 53rd New York Film Festival 2015
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: [VIDEO ESSAY] As with any festival there are must-see films, sure-bets, and movies to avoid. Here are my best picks in each category.
Festivals: Individual Reviews
De Palma
- Excerpt: De Palma and Hitchcock now also share the experience of walking through their careers with younger directors who idolize them, and ‘De Palma’ has both the scope and specificity of the essential text ‘Hitchcock/Truffaut,’ covering the entire career (even the movies we don’t really talk about) while pausing for in-depth explanations of the reasoning behind certain iconic shots, or the aesthetics of trademark techniques.
Drama Int’l Short Film Festival: Bittersweet Fig wins top prize
Joseph Proimakis @ Popaganda.gr [Greek]
- Excerpt: Grecoswedish director Nicolas Kolovos wins top honors while Danish production Euroman by Gabriel Tzafkas comes second best
Drama Int’l Short Film Festival: Greeks troubled over crisi fallout
Joseph Proimakis @ Popaganda.gr [Greek]
Drama Int’l Short Film Festival: Taste the future
Joseph Proimakis @ Popaganda.gr [Greek]
Francofonia
Kenji Fujishima @ Movie Mezzanine
Room
Kenji Fujishima @ Movie Mezzanine
Awards Coverage
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Sep. 18-20, 2015
- Excerpt: Looking at the Oscar chances of “Black Mass,” “Everest” and “Sicario”
Television
The Deliberate Stranger
Sarah D Bunting @ Previously.TV
Doctor Who: The Magician’s Apprentice
- Excerpt: I am going to be quite clear here to all those insisting The Magician’s Apprentice is some sort of television miracle. We’ve. Seen. All. This. Before.
Essays
The Avengers: A Second Look
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
Clearing the Table: Remembering “Five Easy Pieces”
Mike McGranaghan @ One Perfect Shot
Searching for Joe Pesci, in Honor of ‘Goodfellas’ at 25
- Excerpt: Surely, on the birthday of his greatest success, he couldn’t resist showing his face, doing a few interviews, and accepting his accolades, right? Turns out, not so much.
Tuesdays With Oscar: 1954
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: Following in the footsteps of Sunset Boulevard, the musical version of A Star is Born burned out at the Oscars, losing all six of its nominations. Yet, who can argue against The Country Girl being more worthy of recognition than say, Rear Window or 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea?
Reviews of Short Films
Arcana
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
Caradecaballo
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Deus Providenciará
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
Hope
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Other Articles
Bill Allen and His RAD Career
Betty Jo Tucker @ Movie Addict Headquarters
- Excerpt: A podcast with underground superstar Bill Allen discussing his role in the cult film RAD as well as in the new BMS-themed film, Heroes of Dirt.
Mów mi Marianna
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Polish Documentary Review on a Transgendered Woman Struggle to have her identity changed.
