OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
5 Binge-Worthy Cable Series Hiding in Plain Sight
- Excerpt: And you thought you had to sit around and wait for TV’s upcoming fall season …
Interviews
Brandon Brown
Kristen Lopez @ Journeys in Classic Film
- Excerpt: Documentarian Brandon Brown discusses his work on the upcoming Lives of Bernard Herrmann
Ed Skrein – The Transporter Refuelled
Mamie Gummer – Ricki and the Flash
Owen Wilson – No Escape
Ravi and Geeta Patel on “Meet the Patels”
Wes Craven Craved Mainsteam Acceptance
- Excerpt: “There’s a taint to #horror. You’re dealing with things that are almost obscene.”
Festivals: General Coverage
Drama Int’l Short Film Festival
Joseph Proimakis @ Popaganda.gr [Greek]
- Excerpt: Greece’s largest short film gathering turns 38 and welcomes first FIPRESCI outing
Plaza Classic Film Festival: Some Thoughts
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: Having worked quite well with them the previous two years, the lack of communication and/or interest in coverage outside the local newspaper is puzzling to me. I wasn’t about to spend $66 minimum to cover a film festival in my professional capacity.
Festivals: Individual Reviews
The Best of FrightFest 2015
Film4 FrightFest Preview: Horror In The House
Anton Bitel @ Little White Lies
FrightFest 2015 Dispatch #1
FrightFest 2015 Dispatch #2
FrightFest 2015 Dispatch #3
FrightFest 2015 Dispatch #4
Interruption
Joseph Proimakis @ Popaganda.gr [Greek]
- Excerpt: Multi-awarded Greek short film director ready to overtake Venice with feature debut
Tributes
In Memoriam: Wes Craven
Joseph Proimakis @ Popaganda.gr [Greek]
- Excerpt: The first monster you need to scare the audience with, is yourself
Wes Craven, Professor of Horror, resurrected genre, repeatedly
- Excerpt: Wes Craven reinvigorated the horror genre, more than once.
Television
A Woman Called Golda
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
Video Essays, Reviews and More
American Ultra
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: I hated this movie beyond being able to write about it, so here’s my video review.
Essays
The (Re)Evolution of Purple Raid
Mike McGranaghan @ One Perfect Shot
‘ American Ultra’ Screenwriter’s Twitter Rant on the Death of “Original Ideas” Is a Tad Disingenuous
- Excerpt: Let’s all check back in with Max Landis on the fate of original ideas in Hollywood around Thanksgiving, after the release of his next movie — a new take on Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein.’
Destroy All Monsters: Universal’s Monster Movies Ate The Summer Of 2015
Quentin Tarantino’s Distaste for “Arty Things” Is Nothing New
- Excerpt: This is someone who came of age, literally and cinematically, in the 1980s (“when movies sucked,” he notes), an era when your choices were either braindead blockbusters, turgid serious films (like ‘Chariots of Fire,’ ‘Out of Africa,’ and the aforementioned Merchant-Ivory oeuvre), or genre pictures and cheap-o exploitation flicks. Tarantino went for the latter, the less popular choice, and that preference has remained —to the benefit of his work.
So, About That ‘NY Times Magazine’ Piece on “The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn’t”…
- Excerpt: According to Johnson, “creative careers are thriving,” a point he argues by ignoring pundits (including yours truly), experts, and anecdotal evidence, instead focusing on the inarguable evidence of Data Journalism. In doing so, Johnson vastly inflates the conclusions of such number-crunching—and (particularly in the case of our reporting) frequently misses the point of the arguments he’s refuting.
Reviews of Short Films
A Rapariga que Imaginou Um Conto
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
Marta
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
O Último Dia de Um Homem Morto
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
Other Articles
Critics Preview Fall Film Schedule
Betty Jo Tucker @ Movie Addict Headquarters
- Excerpt: A lively podcast discussion about upcoming fall (2015) films featuring Nell Minow, A.J. Hakari and Mack Bates.
The Dawn of Technicolor: 1915-1935
- Excerpt: Review of a new book.
