OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Awards Coverage
2014 Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 3
- Excerpt: Examining the winners and losers from the 3rd week of Precursor Season
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Dec. 12-14, 2014
- Excerpt: Looking at the Oscar chances of “Exodus: Gods and Kings”, “Top Five” and “Inherent Vice”
Why Is the Weinstein Company Dooming Two of Its Best Oscar Prospects?
- Excerpt: The modern Oscar campaign was perfected by Harvey Weinstein, the face of the Weinstein brothers, who turned Mirmax and the subsequent Weinstein Company into Oscar factories, via notoriously aggressive campaigning (and occasional alleged “dirty tricks” against opponents). And yet, as 2014 draws to a close, The Weinstein Company is all but burying two viable awards contenders — and the only plausible explanation is ego and spite.
Best of Lists
2014 in Review: The Best Canadian Films of the Year
- Excerpt: The 2014 highlights for Canadian film include ‘Mommy’, ‘Maps to the Stars’ and ‘The F Word’.
2014 in Review: The Worst Films of the Year
- Excerpt: The list of 2014 turkeys includes Frankenstein, vampires, Adam Sandler, Clint Eastwood, and more!
Interviews
Ben Kingsley – Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
Dan Stevens – Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
David Oyelowo on Playing Martin Luther King in “Selma”
Nell Minow @ The Huffington Post
Jim Carrey – Dumb and Dumber To
Natalia Tena want’s to be queen
Joseph Proimakis @ Popaganda.gr [Greek]
- Excerpt: Game of Thrones wildling talks HBO-addiction, fronting her band Molotov Jukebox and sweeping the indies with Long Distance
Owen Wilson – Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
Pal Sverre Hagen – Kon-Tiki
Peter Farrelly – Dumb and Dumber To
Shawn Levy – Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
Stefan Pape @ HeyUGuys
Essays
#SonyLeaks: Revenge of the internets
Joseph Proimakis @ Poaganda.gr [Greek]
Destroy All Monsters: The Lessons of THE HOBBIT
Hacked Sony Email Confirms What Chris Rock Told Us About Racism in Hollywood
- Excerpt: Sure, they’re joking around, but when two people with this much influence over the images of people of color in media think that even the most powerful black man in the world is only interested in these specific color-coded movies, well, sorry, that says something.
How the Death of Mid-Budget Cinema Left a Generation of Iconic Filmmakers MIA
- Excerpt: While we weren’t looking, the mid-budget adult-oriented motion picture has all but disappeared. And the gifted directors behind them are in danger of disappearing as well.
In Defense of Seeing the Movie Before You Read the Book
- Excerpt: There will be some foot-dragging, as it seems there always is when a film version of a high-profile bestseller hits the screen, by those who feel it’s their obligation to first consume the work in its original and vastly superior words-on-a-page form. After years of struggling with this arbitrary impulse/obligation, let’s just come out and say it: you don’t have to do that.
No Concessions: Cancelling “The Interview”
- Excerpt: Thoughts on a burial.
Presenting Thanhouser, the Greatest American Independent Studio of the 1910s
- Excerpt: The story of Thanhouser is the story of American cinema in the turbulent teens.
Restorations, Revelations and Debuts of 2014
- Excerpt: Film history discovered and rediscovered on Blu-ray, DVD and digital formats.
Ten Silent Movies to Make You a Silent Movie Fan
- Excerpt: On the engaging films, genres, moods, sensibilities and styles to be discovered in the thirty-plus years of cinema before the introduction of sound.
Reviews of Short Films
24 Horas con Lucía
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short film Review
Dédalo
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
Lights Out
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Swedish Short Film Review
Other Articles
The Shawshank Redemption 20th Anniversary Celebration
Betty Jo Tucker @ Movie Addict Headquarters
- Excerpt: A spirited podcast discussion about “The Shawshank Redemption” 20th Anniversary.
