OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
SDG’s Top Films of 2013
Steven Greydanus @ National Catholic Register
- Excerpt: 2013 was a year of cinematic trauma and stress, full of harrowing, at times also exhilarating, survival stories, many on the abyss of the sea or even the void of space.
A Year in Review: 20 Best Movies of 2013
Amir Siregar @ Amir at the Movies [Indonesian]
A Year in Review: Worst Movies of 2013
Amir Siregar @ Amir at the Movies [Indonesian]
Awards Coverage
Adele Exarchopoulos, ’12 Years a Slave’ and Director Alfonso Cuarón Earn Top Honors at the Critics’ Choice Awards
Best Visual Effects
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: This isn’t exactly a fair fight . . .
Do the Oscars Offer a Generous Wink at Science Fiction Cinema from 2013?
Frank Ochieng @ Focus of New York Magazine
Evening at the 2014 20th Annual SAG Awards
Frank Ochieng @ Focus of New York Magazine
Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 8
- Excerpt: Looking at the winners and losers from week 8 of Precursor Season, including the 86th Oscar nominees
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Jan. 17-19, 2014
- Excerpt: Looking at the Oscar chances for “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit”
Rita Moreno Proves She’s Still Better Than the Rest of Us at Saturday Night’s Wild Screen Actors Guild Awards
Robert Redford: Cast Away
- Excerpt: Why was Robert Redford in the performance of his career snubbed by Oscar? A few possible answers —
Interviews
Anthony Joseph Giunta, Writer-Director of Teen Bullying Film “Contest”
Vanessa Hudgens of “Gimme Shelter”
Festivals: General Coverage
14 of the Most Intriguing Films on the Sundance Roster
Bright Nights Ahead for Ottawa Filmgoers
- Excerpt: Preview of the Canadian Film Institute’s Bright Night’s Baltic-Nordic Film Festival.
Everything for Sundance
Joseph Proimakis @ Popaganda.gr [Greek]
Festivals: Individual Reviews
Gone Too Far!
MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Something like a Shakespearean comedy, full of highly amusing, sharply drawn characters and offering wicked insight into how identity is shaped by city living and immigrant culture clash.
Matterhorn
MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: It had me confounded, in the most delightful way, and left me with a big stupid grin on my face and tears in my eyes.
StLIFF 2013: How We Got Away With It
Andrew Wyatt @ Gateway Cinephile
- Excerpt: The film’s somewhat elliptical approach to what is otherwise a straightforward tale of bloodshed and lies is both How’s most distinctive narrative feature and its most confounding flaw.
StLIFF 2013: Sleeping With the Fishes
Andrew Wyatt @ Gateway Cinephile
- Excerpt: The humor of Sleeping With the Fishes relies to a great extent on the charm of lovable, over-the-top characters doing nothing more than showcasing their personalities.
Television
Treme: The Complete Fourth Season
- Excerpt: Treme is perhaps the most organic drama to ever be put on television, concerned less with the machinations of plot and more with the way people evolve in the circumstances they are given.
Essays
Now Can We Finally Stop Calling Scarlett Johansson Overrated?
See You On The Other Side: Her, The Fountain And The Beauty Of Mortality
Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
Trojan Horse Storytelling, Character Investment and 12 YEARS A SLAVE
Reviews of Short Films
Como Tu
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film
Generación Sin
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Nella Tasca del Cappotto
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Italian Short Film Review
Other Articles
Destroy All Monsters: Bromance On Baker Street
The Morning After: Jan. 20, 2014
- Excerpt: Short reviews of “Nebraska” and “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit”