OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
The Films of 2013: Mid-Year Report
- Excerpt: My 2013 movies seen count recently passed 30, which gives me enough to put together preliminary best and worst lists, while knowing that the best is likely yet to come.
Tom Hanks’ best movies
Marcio Sallem @ Em Cartaz [Portuguese]
Interviews
Alex Gibney
Philip Concannon @ Phil on Film
- Excerpt: I think it’s human nature that we will always want to keep secrets, and it’s also human nature that we will always want to leak them.
BBFC reveals audience concerns from 2012
Chris Sagovac
Andrew Wyatt @ Gateway Cinephile
- Excerpt: The director of the new experimental animated short “newscaster/dragon/maggots” talks about his filmmaking methods, surrealism in cinema, and television reception in Hell.
Phil Hall, critic for Film Threat
Phil Hall @ New York Cine Radio
Quiet Inspiration: Interview with Margarethe von Trotta
Matthew Sorrento @ Film International
- Excerpt: Arendt is so measured and elegant that the filmmaking seems effortless.
Festivals
Nastri d’Argento 2013: winners
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
TIFF’s Bitter/Sweet The Joyous Cinema of Jacques Demy Review: The World of Jacques Demy (1995)
Matthew Blevins @ Nextprojection.com
Oscar Coverage
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Jul. 3-7, 2013
- Excerpt: Examining the Oscar potential for “Despicable Me 2,” “The Lone Ranger” and “The Way, Way Back.”
Other Articles
3 Lessons Hollywood Should Learn from This Summer’s 3 Big-Budget Bombs
- Excerpt: What can we take away from the high-profile failures of “The Lone Ranger,” “White House Down,” and “After Earth”?
A Corda
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review – Winner of the 48 Media Short Film Festival
Capsule Reviews: Entry #9
Danny King @ The King Bulletin
Clarisse
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
Diz-me Como És
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
El Encontronazo
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Hoop Dreams
- Excerpt: Steve James’s remarkable example of cinéma vérité tells the problematic journey of high school basketball stars William Gates and Arthur Agee, two African-American teenagers growing up in Chicago ghettos.
It’s Time to Fire Rex Reed
- Excerpt: Film writing is a pretty cushy gig. And that’s why it’s so maddening that the New York Observer’s Rex Reed continues to fuck it up — and why it’s time to take the job away from him.
NCAA Football 14, Dead Man Down
Phil Villarreal @ COEDMagazine.com
Oldboy trailer
- Excerpt: Brace yourself for the red band trailer for the manic revenge drama, Oldboy.
Paperman
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Oscar Winner Animated Short Film Review
Red, White, and Blue Valentine: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
- Excerpt: Mira Nair’s film is a poignant and vivid tale about what can occur when the process of American enculturation goes sour.
Rehabbing Tonto: “The Lone Ranger” as Picaresque Tale
- Excerpt: As THE LONE RANGER shifts from the point of view of its hero, John Reid (Armie Hammer), to the first-person narrative of his Indian sidekick Tonto (Johnny Depp), the tired pulp story becomes a postmodern picaresque.
SDG’s Very, Very Little Movie Glossary
Steven Greydanus @ National Catholic Register
- Excerpt: This little essay is barely a footnote to Ebert’s book. Still, in the dozen or so years that I’ve been writing movie reviews, I’d like to think I’ve come up with a few witty, possibly even useful terms … that might contribute to movie discussion.
Spinning Discs: Kentucky Fried Movies
- Excerpt: DVD/Blu-ray reviews of Spring Breakers, American Mary, Come Out and Play, and more.
Tenebris
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Short Film Review
Why the ‘Sharknado’ People Are Doing Bad Movies Wrong
- Excerpt: For those of us with a genuine love for bad movies, who seek out treasures of terribleness, the Sharknado social media storm was kind of like when everybody discovered rap music via Vanilla Ice. That’s not the genuine article — it’s a plastic, artificial, manufactured substitute.
Wolverine Returns
Betty Jo Tucker @ Movie Addict Headquarters
- Excerpt: A podcast preview of “The Wolverine.”
