OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Interviews
Frank Filmmaking: Lenny Abrahamson on Frank
Yorgos Servetas: “Our lives depend more on the people on the streets, not the ones in the voting booth”
Joseph Proimakis @ Popaganda.gr [Greek]
- Excerpt: The director of the well-travelled neo-western Looking Aside Watching discusses his subversive sophomore feature and its distance from the guilt-ridden Weird Wave of Greek film
Festivals: General Coverage
The Best and Worst of the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival
Hot Docs 2014: Wrap-up and ‘Best of the Fest’
- Excerpt: ‘I am Big Bird: The Carrol Spinney Story’ tops this list of the 10 best films at Hot Docs 2014.
Me and a Meander (Thessaloniki Documentary Festival)
Michael Pattison @ Jigsaw Lounge
- Excerpt: where general economic bankruptcy reigns, so too do the fizzing atoms of fascism’s potential solidification
Festivals: Individual Reviews
Actress
- Excerpt: Review from Hot Docs
Beyond Clueless
- Excerpt: This ode to teen movies is the worst film I have ever seen at Hot Docs.
Far East Film Festival – Day Eight
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee Coffee and more Coffee
Far East Film Festival – Day Nine
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee Coffee and more Coffee
Gun Porn
- Excerpt: Review from Hot Docs
Happiness
- Excerpt: Review from Hot Docs
An Honest Liar
- Excerpt: an enchanting magic act with its web of lies, cheats, and reveals
Hot Docs Reviews: ‘Advanced Style’, ‘Keep on Keepin On’, ‘Bugarach’
- Excerpt: Review from Hot Docs
I am Big Bird: The Carrol Spinney Story
- Excerpt: ‘I am Big Bird’ is not only one of the best films at Hot Docs, it’s one of the best films of the year.
IndieLisboa 2014
Michael Pattison @ Slant Magazine
- Excerpt: On Industrial Revolution, Same River Twice, The Second Game, Iranien
Kung Fu Elliot
- Excerpt: Review from Hot Docs
Marinoni
- Excerpt: Review from Hot Docs
Meet the Patels
- Excerpt: Review from Hot Docs
Obvious Child
Michael Pattison @ Grolsch Film Works
- Excerpt: Like a cleverly noxious stand-up routine, Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child begins by deliberately alienating its audience with incessant toilet humour, and in doing so sets itself the apparently insurmountable challenge of winning its audience back.
The Overnighters
- Excerpt: Review from Hot Docs
The Second Game
Michael Pattison @ Grolsch Film Works
- Excerpt: As the tough but sporting on-pitch battle demonstrates, the corruption was backstage, at some remove from the front line: at a stretch, we might say Porumboiu the referee’s stubbornness was both conditioned by and a symbol of an imminent revolution.
See No Evil
To Be Takei
To Kill a Man
Michael Pattison @ Grolsch Film Works
- Excerpt: A photographic showcase and an exercise in tone, the film is a prime example of what others might call a ‘style over substance’ aesthetic.
Zombie TV
- Excerpt: If you’re in the mood for a zombie sex manual, zombie boob grabbing, zombie musical numbers, and lots and lots of cheap looking gore, practical effects, and weirdness you’re probably in the right place. Zombie TV is not destined to be another milestone in Nishimura’s career, but his co-directors might have a future as long as Japanese splatter still has an audience, which may have stopped boiling over, but certainly continues to simmer.
Tributes
The Best of Bob Hoskins
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: Bob Hoskins looked like everybody else. That was his appeal. He didn’t seem like a movie star but a guy who seems to have wandered in and just happened to be caught by the camera’s eye.
Is Tom Hardy Hollywood’s next big star?
Joseph Proimakis @ Popaganda.gr [Greek]
- Excerpt: He gets into fights with directors and co-stars, swears like a sailor, used to drink like one, looks like a hooligan and carries a history of drug abuse. Could it be though that a star with character is just what Hollywood needs?
Awards Coverage
Oscar Preview: Weekend of May 2-4, 2014
- Excerpt: Looking at the Oscar chances for “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” and “Belle”
Television
Happy Days: Season 5
James Plath @ Family Home Theater
- Excerpt: While the show starts to get more uneven this season, there are still enough episodes to entertain.
The Honeymooners: Classic 39 Episodes
James Plath Plath @ Family Home Theater
- Excerpt: Older children will “get” The Honeymooners, but it won’t play as well with the whole family as I Love Lucy or The Andy Griffith Show—two other classic sitcoms new to Blu-ray.
Essays
15 Films My Mother Taught Me
Cinema in Noir: “Asian Films are Still Being Whitewashed”
Exit Lines: The Musical
- Excerpt: Reviews of the latest movies into musicals on Broadway
What If You’re Not a FanGirl/Boy?
Reviews of Short Films
PDL – LIS (Ponta Delgada – Lisboa)
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Documentary Film Review
Remissão Completa
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner – Portuguese Short Film Review
Other Articles
Destroy All Monsters: Ebertfest Marches On
Destroy All Monsters: The Clothes Make The Spider-Man
The Morning After: May 5, 2014
- Excerpt: Short reviews of “Atlantic City” and “The Amazing Spider-Man 2”
Pecado Fatal
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
Poppy Fields Movie Couch Of Fame: The Hunt for Red October
Sarah D Bunting @ Tomato Nation
- Excerpt: Reader Craig submits a Baldwin classic for consideration.
Summer Film Preview
Betty Jo Tucker @ Movie Addict Headquarters
- Excerpt: Nell Minow, AJ Hakari and Mack Bates preview the 2014 summer film schedule in this spririted podcast discussion.
