OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
Top 20 Films from FrightFests past
Anton Bitel @ Little White Lies
- Excerpt: twenty of the best, most interesting or just most downright transgressive films to have screened at the past 13 annual FrightFests
Interviews
Cuba Gooding, Jr. of “Lee Daniels’ The Butler”
David Gordon Green on “Prince Avalanche”
Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
David Gordon Green’s “Prince Avalanche”: Back to Indie Basics
- Excerpt: Prince Avalanche, a modest, warm-hearted tale of two guys on a rural road crew on winding forest roads in 1988 Central Texas, gets Green back to the basics. The film has the quality of an American short story, easy-going, laconic, seeped in rural atmosphere, analog technology, and a slower way of life than the movies rushing through the multiplexes.
Joshua Michael Stern and Josh Gad on “Jobs”
Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
Lee Daniels of “Lee Daniels’ The Butler”
Lily Collins of “The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones”
Shane Carruth (Upstream Color)
Steven Price, Composer of “The World’s End”
Festivals
Gramado Film Festival 2013: the winners
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Brazilian and Latin Film Festival 2013 winners
Locarno International Film Festival 2013: winners
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
Plaza Classic Film Festival: Ben-Hur
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: There is something extraordinary about watching such a monumental picture like Ben-Hur on the really big screen, the way it was originally presented.
Plaza Classic Film Festival: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a breathtaking, beautiful, and optimistic film.
Plaza Classic Film Festival: Closing Thoughts
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: The 2013 Plaza Classic Film Festival is yet another glorious success to a most impressive annual event.
Plaza Classic Film Festival: Goodfellas
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: Goodfellas is one of those films that can be studied for its craftsmanship and enjoyed as extraordinary entertainment.
Plaza Classic Film Festival: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: There are some films that will never lose their relevance, their potency, or their ability to move one emotionally regardless of how long ago it was made. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans is that type of film.
San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2013 Wrap
- Excerpt: I knew that San Francisco Silent Film Festival is the premiere silent fest in America, but I was elated to learn from Céline Ruivo, curator of the film collection at the Cinématèque Française and a special guest at this year’s festival, that in Europe, SFSFF has a reputation as one of the premiere silent film festivals in the world.
SFSFF 2013 Premieres: ‘The Half-Breed’ and ‘The Last Edition’
- Excerpt: This year marks the latest and most exciting expansion of their mission: the world premiere of two new restorations undertaken by the SFSFF in collaboration with international film archives.
SFSFF 2013 Spotlights: The ‘Beauté’ of Louise, the ‘Safety’ of Lloyd, and those ‘Joyless’ Germans
- Excerpt: G.W. Pabst’s The Joyless Street (1925), the Centerpiece screening on Saturday night, is a landmark drama of social commentary, a savage portrait of Germany after World War II, when rampant inflation and record unemployment plunged an entire class into poverty and widened the gulf between rich and poor into a veritable ocean. Decadence and desperation and degradation: this has it all…
Tributes
Legendary Writer Elmore Leonard Dies
Oscar Coverage
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Aug. 16-18, 2013
- Excerpt: Looking at the Oscar chances of “Lee Daniels’ The Butler”
Other Articles
2013 Summer Action Films: Looking For Social Consciousness In All The Wrong Places?
The Bridge: An El Paso Perspective
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: As the only Online Film Critics Society representative stationed in El Paso, Texas, I believe I am uniquely qualified to judge the new FX series The Bridge.
Dick Van Dyke Escapes Freeway Fire
Directrospective #11: Wong Kar-Wai’s Dreams and Desires
Kenji Fujishima @ In Review Online
Divine Diva Rita Graham
Betty Jo Tucker @ Movie Addict Headquarters
- Excerpt: Jazz diva Rita Graham talks about her key role in the upcoming independent film “We Are Kings.”
Film Threat Podcast 88: Binary Solo
Don Lewis @ Film Threat
GLAAD Reveals How Studios Treat LGBT Characters: Intrduccing the Vito Test
Nada
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
New releases roundup including Amour
Nudes! Guns! Ghosts! The Sensational Films of Shintoho
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee Coffee and more Coffee
- Excerpt: Those whose taste in Japanese cinema leans towards the more classical films might still be dismissive of the the films covered here. For myself, I can’t get enough Ghost Cats!
Nudes! Guns! Ghosts! The Sensational Films of Shintoho
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee Coffee and more Coffee
- Excerpt: Those whose taste in Japanese cinema leans towards the more classical films might still be dismissive of the the films covered here. For myself, I can’t get enough Ghost Cats!
Potasio
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Rebel Without a Cause
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: “Rebel Without a Cause” (1955) is a pivotal film for many reasons — each as important as the next.
This Week on Blu-ray and DVD – August 20, 2013
James Plath @ Movie Metropolis
- Excerpt: Here are select new releases for the week of August 20, 2013.
Tres en un Cuarto
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
