OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Awards Coverage
2014 Academy Awards
- Excerpt: Cate, Matthew, Lupita, And Jared Might Have Taken Home Awards, But It Was Host Ellen DeGeneres Who Was The Biggest Oscar Winner
2014 Independent Spirit Awards
- Excerpt: 12 YEARS A SLAVE And DALLAS BUYERS CLUB Are The Big Winners At The 2014 Independent Spirit Awards
The 86th Annual Academy Awards . . . not exactly over the rainbow
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
César du Cinéma 2014: winners
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: French Film Academy Award Winners
My 2014 Oscar Predictions
Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
Oscar Aftermath: A Reel Treat Indeed
Frank Ochieng @ Focus of New York Magazine
Oscar Aftermath: Where is the Sci-Fi Love?
Oscar Preview: Winners & Losers, Week 14
- Excerpt: Looking at the final week of precursors and Oscar winners & losers.
Oscar Results Roundtable
Betty Jo Tucker @ Movie Addict Headquarters
- Excerpt: Podcast featuring critics A.J. Hakari, Mack Bates and Diana Saenger ranting and raving about the 86th Annual Academy Awards show.
What we’ve learned from this year’s Oscars
Joseph Proimakis @ Popaganda.gr [Greek]
- Excerpt: First off, it’s worse to miss out on the pizza than the awards
Who’s going home with the Oscar gold for 2013?
- Excerpt: Best Picture is a genuine horse race this year. For the most part, all nine nominated pictures are credible candidates.
Interviews
Festivals: General Coverage
10 Most Anticipated Films At SXSW 2014
Dustin Jansick @ Way Too Indie
American Documentary Film Festival 2014 – Preview
- Excerpt: A fascinating array of films for this year’s Palm Springs festival
Notes From the 2014 True/False Film Festival
Andrew Wyatt @ Look/Listen (St. Louis Magazine)
- Excerpt: It was a cold ‘un but a good ‘um. A survey of the characteristically excellent offerings at True/False 2014.
Festivals: Individual Reviews
America Ferrera, Melonie Diaz And Rory Culkin Headline New Dramas Premiering At The Tribeca Film Festival
Discoveries From the Pan Asia Film Festival 2014
Anton Bitel @ Grolsch FilmWorks
A Guide to FrightFest Glasgow 2014
Anton Bitel @ Grolsch FilmWorks
Tip Top
Kenji Fujishima @ The House Next Door
Television
The Walking Dead
Essays
The controversy over Jared Leto’s Oscar win neglects the bigger issue
Jennie Kermode @ The Independent
Destroy All Monsters: Pageantry’s Responsibility To Morality At The Oscars Read more: http://twitchfilm.com/2014/03/destroy-all-monsters-pageantrys-responsibility-to-morality-at-the-oscars.html#ixzz2vCu2wVyI
If You Like the ‘Before’ Films, You Might Also Like ‘Medicine for Melancholy’
Oscar’s Forgotten Nominees: Adèle Exarchopoulos
Reviews of Short Films
Llaves
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Pajas
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Sin Palabras
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Other Articles
2014 Oscar predictions
James Plath Plath @ Movie Metropolis
- Excerpt: Oscar-by-the-Numbers picked the Best Picture. Now I weigh in on the other major categories.
Online Film Critics Society announces ‘Best of the Best Picture Winners’
- Excerpt: The critics polled showed a marked preference for older films. The top 20 are virtually all classics, and for the most part, not that recent. Only 2007’s “No Country for Old Men” was made in this century.The top twenty are accompanied by selected capsule reviews by OFCS members.
The Rainmaker or: A-Coppola-pse Now Redux
Tony Dayoub @ Cinema Viewfinder
- Excerpt: …Coppola now contemplates the impending possibility of great-grandchildren as a kind of immortality… perhaps a better one than the cinematic one he’s always sought.
