OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Interviews
Chadwick Boseman
The Real Deal: An Interview with Documentarian Doug Pray
Andrew Wyatt @ St. Louis Magazine
- Excerpt: Pray’s absorbing and penetrating works provide a galvanic connection straight into the passions of artists, musicians, rebels, loners, and visionaries.
Tate Taylor
Festivals: General Coverage
Thessaloniki IFF: Backstage politics bleed on closing gala front stage
Joseph Proimakis @ Popaganda.gr [Greek]
Thessaloniki IFF: First-timers invade
Joseph Proimakis @ Popaganda.gr [Greek]
Thessaloniki IFF: Preview
Joseph Proimakis @ Popaganda.gr [Greek]
Thessaloniki IFF: Recap
Joseph Proimakis @ Popaganda.gr [Greek]
Thessaloniki IFF: The undervalued importance of very bad films
Joseph Proimakis @ Popaganda.gr [Greek]
Festivals: Individual Reviews
Ballymun Lullaby
- Excerpt: Poignant Irish doc screens at Ottawa’s European Union Film Festival
Nånting Måste Gå Sönder
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
Starz Denver Film Festival 2014: Tribute to Lawrence Jordan
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee, Coffee and more Coffee
Thessaloniki IFF: Yiannis Fagras’ decade-in-the-making Forget me Not finally hits screens
Joseph Proimakis @ Popaganda.gr [Greek]
Thessaloniki IFF: Yiannis Vesleme’s Norway a hipsters praybook
Joseph Proimakis @ Popaganda.gr [Greek]
Awards Coverage
Oscar Predictions: Round 3 – Christmas Comes Early?
- Excerpt: Is there a clearer look at 2014’s back-loaded Oscar race now that ‘Selma’. ‘Big Eyes’ and ‘A Most Violent Year’ have screened?
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Nov. 14-16, 2014
- Excerpt: Looking at the Oscar chances of “Foxcatcher”, “The Homesman” and “Rosewater”
Oscar Predictions: November Predictions, Pre-Precursors
- Excerpt: Our November/pre-precursor Oscar predictions
Television
Streaming TV Series Review: Transparent
- Excerpt: Jeffrey Tambor creates a character like none other. With his downcast mouth and deliberately slow rhythms, his Maura appears to weigh every word before speaking, measuring kindness against candor. Maura may be a lunking linebacker in lipstick … but the beauty is evident from within.
The Walking Dead’ Season 5 Review: “Consumed” Digs into Carol’s Past
Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
Essays
Destroy All Monsters: Trumbullvision
The Imitation Game: Who Was the Real Alan Turing?
Robert Cashill @ Biography.com
- Excerpt: The real, and reel, Alan Turing.
Reviews of Short Films
Rebel Menopause
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: British-Italian Short Film Review
Other Articles
After the Fall
Coming Home
Death Metal Angola
Monsieur le Président
The Morning After: Nov. 17, 2014
- Excerpt: Short review of “Interstellar”
